Severus, of Aquileia
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I commend to your care the bearer of this letter, a member of our Milanese clergy whom I am sending on business that...
Paulinus, servant of Christ Jesus, to Severus, dearest brother according to our common faith in God the Father and...
1. If I frankly say all that this case compels me to say, you may perhaps ask me where is my concern for the preservation of charity but if I may not thus say all that the case demands, may I not ask you where is the liberty conceded to friendship? Hesitating between these two alternatives, I have chosen to write so much as may justify me withou...
And you thought you needed an excuse, dearest brother, for not coming to us in person as you had promised and we had...
In the Lord God Jesus Christ I feel — and in you above all I joyfully experience through God's gift and word — that...
To Severus, my most blessed and venerable lord, brother truly to be embraced with genuine love, partner in the...
We are worn out with inviting you and waiting for you.
Having reread your letter, I gave thanks to God that I learned of your recovery before I learned of your illness —...
VARIAE, BOOK 2, LETTER 8
It is a matter of deep concern to us that the liberal arts -- which have always been the glory of Rome -- should...
We write to you again on the matter of Roman education, because the subject deserves our sustained attention.
We return to this subject a third time because nothing we have written matters more for the future of our kingdom.
As, when one who walks through devious ways takes anew the right path, the Lord embraces him with all eagerness, so afterwards, when one deserts the way of truth, He is more saddened with grief for him than He rejoiced over him with joy when he turned from error; since it is a less degree of sin not to know the truth than not to abide in it when...
We learn from your Fraternity's epistle that, with regard to the choice of a bishop, some are agreed in favour of Ocleatinus, with whom, since we disallow him, they need not further concern themselves. But give notice to the inhabitants of that city that, if they should find any one in their own Church fit for that work, they all transfer their ...
The report that has been sent to us has informed us of the death of the bishop John. Wherefore we solemnly delegate to your Fraternity the work of the visitation of the bereaved Church: which work it becomes you so to execute that no one may presume to interfere with respect to the promotions of the clergy, the revenues, ornaments, ministrations...
Gregory to Severus, Scholasticus to the Exarch. Those who assist judges and are bound to them by sincere attachment ought to advise them and suggest to them what may both save their souls and not derogate from their reputation. This being so, since we know with what sincere loyalty you love the most excellent Exarch, we have been careful to info...