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Letter 19

2. Quapropter, frater carissime, instantius religiosis viris filiis nostris Euphroni presbytero et Restituto viro religioso, qui ad Italiae partes ad providendam congregationi sanctae substantiam commearant, remeantibus ad propria, silere nequivimus...

(ed. Thiel 1868: 386)

Letter 19

2. Therefore, my dearest brother, we cannot be silent, but as we have the opportunity of religious men, our sons Presbyter Euphronius, and the religious man Restitutus, who travelled to Italy to help materially the holy congregation, and now they return to their own parts ...

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

This letter was addressed on 23 August 494 to Aeonius, bishop of Arles (Gaul).

Place of event:

Region

Rome
Gaul

City

Rome

About the source:

Author: Gelasius I
Title: Epistulae, Letters
Origin: Rome (Rome), Gaul
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

Gelasius I was the bishop of Rome between AD 492 and 496.

Edition:

Thiel A. ed., Epistulae Romanorum pontificum genuinae et quae ad eos scriptae sunt a S. Hilario usque ad Pelagium II, 1, Braunsberg 1868, 287-510.

Translation:

B. Neil, P. Allen edd., The Letters of Gelasius I (492-496): Pastor and Micro-Manager of the Church of Rome, Turnhout 2014.

Bibliography:

B. Neil, P. Allen edd., The Letters of Gelasius I (492-496): Pastor and Micro-Manager of the Church of Rome, Turnhout 2014.

Categories:

Travel and change of residence

PR910.

Ecclesiastical administration - Ecclesiastical envoy

PR910.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2000, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2000