Quote from Letter 5,4 to Victor, bishop op Palermo. September 594.
No reason at all allowed the bearer of this Letter, Gregory, once abbot and priest of the monastery of Saint Theodore, to have the right to be in charge of the place any longer, following the almost total lapse by that community.
For one who has led so many disciples to Hell through his negligence ought not to be put in charge of those left at any time. But because here in Rome there is a long period of penitential suffering, it is necessary for your Fraternity to receive him in the aforesaid monastery and to appoint him to his position, but in such a way that Urbicus, put in charge of my monastery, ought to provide someone from the servants of God to become his supervisor, so that what is neglected by the lack of care by that man, may be preserved through the concern of this appointee.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II: 325
About Me & About the Project
- Arnold Smeets
- BIO - I am a theologian. Radio broadcaster at Dutch Public Broadcast Organisation KRO-NCRV and Senior Research Fellow at CPO (Centre for Patristic Studies), the Netherlands. In 2007 I took my degree cum laude at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Tilburg on a semiotic analysis of three letters of Pope Gregory the Great (Ad Leandrum, concerning his own conversion, and Ep. xi,37 and Ep. xi,56, two instructions on the mission of the English). PROJECT - Every few days I'll blog a paragraph and twitter a line from one of Gregory the Great's Letters. Passages from the letters are quoted with kind permission of the publishers, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada.
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