Quote from Letter to Bishop Felix and Abbot Cyriacus. September 594.
The tenor of the report submitted to you explains adequately the complaint of Theodosia, a religious woman, in which we read a good many major charges against your brother and fellow-bishop Januarius, and ones not befitting the clemency of a priest, in such a way that after she had founded a monastery for the monks, everything pertaining to avarice, disturbance and prejudice is said to have been shown at the time of the actual dedication of the oratory (...). (Thus) after you have settled the venerable place itself in a decent and regular manner, with the Lord's help, we may neither be shaken by the frequent complaint of the aforesaid religious woman over the non-fulfillment of her good desires, nor may it be detrimental to your soul, if such a pious proposal should be languishing through some delay, due to your negligence.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II: 323
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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