Adeodatus

correspondent (recipient) in Italian letter collections; likely cleric or official|Italy
Adeodatus ("given by God") is a common Latin name in late antique and early medieval Italy, and the thirteen letters attributed to this entry are spread across three different correspondences of widely separated dates: the letters of Ennodius of Pavia (c. 490s-513), the Variae of Cassiodorus (compiled c. 537), and the Register of Gregory the Great (590-604). This almost certainly reflects more than one individual bearing the same name rather than a single attested person, and no continuous biography can responsibly be reconstructed. Each Adeodatus is otherwise little attested, known chiefly as a recipient within these collections and probably a cleric or official active in Italy during the late Ostrogothic and early papal period; specific dates, offices, and identities should not be inferred from the name alone.
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Total letters
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All letters (13)

From Ennodius of Paviac. 498 AD

Who could forget your affection and not be accounted inhuman?

ennodius pavia #3007
From Ennodius of Paviac. 506 AD

I should have replied to your letter long ago, and the delay weighs on me.

ennodius pavia #9016
From Ennodius of Paviac. 516 AD

My wishes have been fulfilled through your efforts, and I write to acknowledge both the result and the agent.

ennodius pavia #7028
From Ennodius of Paviac. 517 AD

Bitter illness has laid me low, and from this bed I write to you with what strength remains.

ennodius pavia #8030
From Ennodius of Paviac. 518 AD

How much your friendship has meant to me, only God fully knows — and perhaps you have some inkling.

ennodius pavia #9032
From Ennodius of Paviac. 520 AD

The dispensation of heaven arranges our affairs with a wisdom we rarely appreciate at the time.

ennodius pavia #6036
From Cassiodorusc. 522 AD

The wrongdoing of the guilty provides a ruler with the opportunity for glory -- without occasions for fault,...

cassiodorus #3046
From Pope Gregory the Greatc. 592 AD

Gregory to Adeodatus, Primate bishop of the province of Numidia. After what manner the charity of affection has bound your Fraternity to usward the tenour of your letters has evidently shown; and they have afforded us great matter of rejoicing, in that we have found them to be composed in a spirit of loving-kindness, and to glow with affection w...

gregory great #3049
From Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)c. 592 AD

I am ashamed, my daughter, that you have waited so long for the relics you requested.

gregory great #11005
From Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)c. 597 AD

The temporal things that occupy most people's attention — wealth, status, the good opinion of the powerful, the...

gregory great #10049
From Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)c. 597 AD

Until a bishop is ordained for Naples, I am granting your monastery oversight and management of the property in...

gregory great #10061
From Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)c. 598 AD

Before you entered the monastery, you made a donation — by word only, without written documentation.

gregory great #11003
From Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)c. 601 AD

I am formally uniting the monastery of Crater with your monastery in Naples.

gregory great #13002