Saturday 3 March 2012

Shortage Of Clergy

Quote from Letter 4,42 to Maximian, bishop of Syracuse. August 594

Since he [bishop Bacauda] mentions that he has neither a priest nor deacons, he has asked that they should be sent over to him, Therefore, wherever your Fraternity discovers them, as indicated by the bearer of this letter, send them over there without delay.

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 321

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