Letter 4,15 - to Cyprian, deacon and defender of Sicily. October 593
It has come to our attention that various priests of Italy have fled for safety to Sicily, and have taken with them a great many precious objects from their churches, and this has almost entirely vanished, as priests either died or were badly dispersed.
Concerned about this matter, we exhort your Beloved to send messages throughout all of Sicily. Wherever you have found sacred dishes and church properties located without proper care, have them collected with maximum strictness. And when they have been brought together and recored with a receipt, deposit them with bishops of individual churches. These bishops should preserve them most securely, with the Lord's help, until a time of peace shall demand them.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 299
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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