Quote from Letter 4,25 to Zabardas, duke of Sardina. may 594
We offer great thanks to almighty God, because He has such a fine duke, who knows to pay to the republic what are earthly products, so as to know well also to show to almighty God his obedience towards the heavenly kingdom. For indeed they have written to me that you are arranging to make peace with the Barbaricini, on the condition that you bring the same Barbaricini to the service of Christ.
Concerning this matter, I am extremely happy. Should it pleases almighty God, I shall very quickly report your good deeds to our serene emperor.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 306
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Monday, 23 January 2012
Saturday, 14 August 2010
In All Fairness
Letter 1,47 to Deacon Honaratus. June 591.
"The glorious military commander Theodore, who is known to have taken on the dukedom of the island of Sardinia, is carrying out many things there contrary to the orders of his most holy emperor (...). For this reason we want you to inform our most holy emperor at an appropriate time about what the provincials of the aforesaid island justly and properly demand.
For already in the seventh indiction, an imperial decree addressed to the glorious gentleman Edantius, then duke of Sardinia, had arrived ordering all the troublesome sections to be removed, so that its orders, proceeding from the generosity of His Holiness, might be obeyed, unchanged by any dukes who happened to be in charge at the time, and so that their reward should nog be dissipated by costs of administration.
Thus they will pass a quiet life under the merciful command of their emperor, and at the arrival of the eternal judge, they will receive, with increased recompense, the consideration peacefully bestowed by them upon their own subjects."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 172.
"The glorious military commander Theodore, who is known to have taken on the dukedom of the island of Sardinia, is carrying out many things there contrary to the orders of his most holy emperor (...). For this reason we want you to inform our most holy emperor at an appropriate time about what the provincials of the aforesaid island justly and properly demand.
For already in the seventh indiction, an imperial decree addressed to the glorious gentleman Edantius, then duke of Sardinia, had arrived ordering all the troublesome sections to be removed, so that its orders, proceeding from the generosity of His Holiness, might be obeyed, unchanged by any dukes who happened to be in charge at the time, and so that their reward should nog be dissipated by costs of administration.
Thus they will pass a quiet life under the merciful command of their emperor, and at the arrival of the eternal judge, they will receive, with increased recompense, the consideration peacefully bestowed by them upon their own subjects."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 172.
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