Maximianus, of Syracuse
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We execute more efficiently our heavenly commission, if we share our burdens with our brethren. For this cause we appoint you, our most reverend brother and fellow bishop, to have administration over all the churches of Sicily in the name of the Apostolical See, so that whosoever there is reckoned as being in a condition of religion may by our a...
I remember to have often admonished you to be by no means hasty in passing sentence. And lo, I have now learned that your Fraternity in a fit of anger has excommunicated the most reverend abbot Eusebius. Now I am much astonished that neither his former conversation, nor his advanced age, nor his long-continued sickness, could turn your mind from...
Gregory to Maximianus, bishop of Syracuse I wrote some time ago to your Fraternity desiring you to send to the Roman city those who had alleged anything against Gregory, bishop of the city of Agrigento. And we exhort you by this present epistle that this should be immediately done. Wherefore hasten to send with speed the persons themselves, and ...
Gregory to Maximinianus, Bishop of Syracuse. My brethren who live with me familiarly urge me by all means to write something briefly about the miracles of the Fathers done in Italy, which we have heard of. With this view I am in great need of the assistance of your Charity, to mention to me shortly what comes back to your memory, and what you ha...
Gregory to Maximianus, Bishop of Syracuse. It had indeed been committed to your Fraternity long ago by our authority to correct in our stead any excesses or unseemly proceedings that there might be in the Church and other venerable places of Sicily. But, seeing that a complaint has reached us of some things having been so far neglected, we have ...