Wednesday 29 January 2014

Complaint

Quote from Letter 9.32 John, bishop of Syracuse. October 598

Our son, the glorious man and ex-consul, Leontius, has complained seriously about the action of our brother and fellow-bishop, Leo. His complaint has thoroughly disturbed us, for a bishop ought not to have acted so hastily and so lightly. We have trusted a careful inquiry into this case to our defender, Romanus, when he gets there.


Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 565

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