Letter 10: Having recently assumed the pontificate, Gelasius sends this letter as a kind of medicine for orthodoxy and,...
Pope Gelasius I to Laurentius, Bishop of Lychnidus (496).
Having recently assumed the pontificate, Gelasius sends this letter as a kind of medicine for orthodoxy and, following the custom of his predecessors, despatches a statement of faith to the churches. He discusses the Acacian schism and the formula of faith that all must subscribe to in order to be in communion with Rome, and charges Laurentius to make known to the bishops of his region the conditions required for the restoration of unity.
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Latin / Greek Original
Gelasii papae ad Laurentium de Lignido. (a. 496.)
« pmtifieatum recen* astumptiis pro medicina quadam orthodoxiae el de more
decfasorum suorum fidei formulam ad ecclesias mitlit.
^' In prolixitate epistolae dilectionis tuae etc. [est Anastasii II
Wfl« epistota 3, ubi videsis.],
'•vAUcol.945) : numerus pusillus, ait, nec obest, ubi abundat pietas^ necmultiptex prodest,
^^^S^timpietas; et non multitudo sed causa damnationem vel Justificationem adducit.
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