Roman Letters

Letter 55: Festal greeting.

Theodoret of Cyrrhus→Unknown|c. 440 AD|Theodoret of Cyrrhus|Human translated
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Festal greeting.

We are in great distress -- for we are made of flesh, not stone. But the remembrance of the Lord's Epiphany [the feast celebrating Christ's baptism and manifestation to the world] has proved a powerful medicine. So at once I write, as the custom of the feast requires, and greet your magnificence with a prayer that you may live in prosperity and good repute.

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  1. 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import

    Initial corpus import from New Advent / NPNF.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2707055.htm

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