Quote from Letter 5,13 to Gaudentius, bishop of Nola. November 594.
Since Festus, bishop of the church of Capua, has departed from this life while staying in the city of Rome, it has been our concern (a care shown by us over every single church), to send the present letter to your Fraternity, asking you to act as visitor to the above-mentioned church, but in such a way that you allow nobody to presume anything about the promotions of clergy, or income, or ornaments and holy dishes, or whatever might exist in the aforesaid place.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, translated by John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMPS, 2004), II, 331
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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