Letter 3,18 - to Theodore, his counselor. January 593
"Those really exerting themselves over ecclesiastical services deserve the pleasure of ecclesiastical remuneration, so that those who of their own volition subject themselves to the voluntary hardships of their obedience, deserve to be repaid in our dispensations.
And so, since we have discovered that you, Theodore, a most eloquent man and our counselor, have been bankrupted due to your administration of the slaves, for that reason we instruct that a slave-boy called Acosimus, a Sicilian by birth, be given and handed over to your legal control."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 248.
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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