Boniface
Bonifacius (Wynfrith)
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Earth reels and heaven trembles at the report of the enormous crime and unprecedented cruelty which has made your streets and temples run red with blood, and ring with the shouts of murderers. You have buried the laws of Rome in a dishonoured grave, and trampled in scorn the reverence due to equitable enactments. The authority of emperors you ne...
1. You ask me to state whether parents do harm to their baptized infant children, when they attempt to heal them in time of sickness by sacrifices to the false gods of the heathen. Also, if they do thereby no harm to their children, how can any advantage come to these children at their baptism, through the faith of parents whose departure from t...
A Letter of Augustine to Boniface, who, as we learn from Epistle 220, was Tribune, and afterwards Count in Africa. In it Augustine shows that the heresy of the Donatists has nothing in common with that of Arius; and points out the moderation with which it was possible to recall the heretics to the communion of the Church through awe of the impe...
1. I had already written a reply to your Charity, but while I was waiting for an opportunity of forwarding the letter, my beloved son Faustus arrived here on his way to your Excellency. After he had received the letter which I had intended to be carried by him to your Benevolence, he stated to me that you were very desirous that I should write y...
1. Never could I have found a more trustworthy man, nor one who could have more ready access to your ear when bearing a letter from me, than this servant and minister of Christ, the deacon Paulus, a man very dear to both of us, whom the Lord has now brought to me in order that I may have the opportunity of addressing you, not in reference to you...
Gregory to Boniface, Bishop of Regium (Reii). It is a shame for priests to be admonished about matters of divine worship. For they are then to their disgrace required to do what they ought themselves to require to be done.
Gregory to Boniface concerning the privileges of Guardians. Those who labour faithfully in the interests of the Church should receive the benefit of suitable remuneration, so that both we may be seen to have made a worthy return for their services, and they may show themselves the more useful for the favour of the solace granted them. Seeing, th...
Your experience is not free from blame, in that, knowing Aleria and Adjacium, cities of Corsica, to have been long without bishops, you have delayed admonishing their clergy and people to choose for themselves priests. But, since they ought to be no longer without rulers of their own, hasten, on receiving this authority, to exhort the clergy and...
Gregory to Boniface, Deacon at Constantinople . As often as the discord of those who ought to have been preachers of peace makes us sad, we should study with great solicitude that cause of contention may be removed, and that those who differ among themselves may return to concord. Now what has been done with respect to the camp of Cassiopus, whi...
Gregory, the servant of the servants of God, to Boniface, a holy priest.
Let it be known to you, my gracious father, that I give thanks without ceasing to Almighty God because, as I learned...
In the name of God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Gregory, the servant of the servants of God.
Gregory, the servant of the servants of God, to Boniface, our most holy brother and colleague in the episcopate.
Let it be known to you, dear sister, that in regard to the matter on which you have sought my advice I cannot...
Gregory, the servant of the servants of God, to our most reverend and holy brother Bishop Boniface, sent by this...
To his dear sister, Abbess Eadburga, long united to him by spiritual ties, Boniface, a servant of the servants of...
To his beloved master, Archbishop Nothelm, invested with the insignia of the high priesthood, Boniface, a humble...
To his beloved son Abbot Duddo, Boniface also called Wynfrith, servant of the servants of God, heartfelt and loving...
To the most reverend and beloved sister, Abbess Eadburga, Boniface, least of the servants of God, loving greetings.
To my beloved sons, Tatwin, Wigbert, priests, and to Bernard, Hiedde, Hunfrid and Sturm, Boniface, a servant of the...
To our beloved sons Geppan, Eoban, Tatwin, Wigbert and to all our brethren and sisters, Boniface, a servant of the...
Gregory, servant of the servants of God.
Grffo was step-brother to Pippin the Short and Carloman, being the son of Charles Martel and the Bavarian Sonnichilde.
To our beloved lord Zacharias, who bears the insignia of the supreme pontificate, Boniface, a servant of the...
Zacharias, servant of the servants of God, to his very reverend' and holy brother and fellow bishop Boniface.
To his dear son, Count Reginbert, Boniface, servant of the servants of God, greetings in the Lord for evermore.
Let it be known to you, dear sister, that our brother and fellow priest Torhthat has reported to us that in response...
To Bishop Daniel, beloved in the Lord, Boniface, a servant of the servants of God, affectionate greetings in Christ.
Zacharias, servant of the servants of God, to his very reverend and holy brother and fellow-bishop, Boniface.
To my most dear lord Aethelbald, King of the English, beloved in Christ above all other kings, Boniface, the...
To his dear and reverend brother, Archbishop Egbert, Boniface, a servant of the servants of God, Legate of the...
To his very dear and revered brother Abbot Huetbert, and to all the brethren of his holy community, Boniface, a...
To his brother and fellow-bishop, Cuthbert [of Canterbury], raised to the dignity of the archiepiscopate, and united...
The gifts and books you have sent us have been received with a joyful and grateful heart.
To the most holy archbishop Wynfrith, called Boniface, and worthily invested with the pontifical insignia,...
To the most reverend and beloved lord and master to be revered in fear and honour, Zacharias, invested with the...
Boniface, servant of the servants of God and bishop by the grace of Christ, to his beloved fellow - ecclesiastic...
To the most noble lord Pope Stephen, exalted and beloved above all pontiffs, endowed with the privilege of the...
To the most noble lord Pippin, King of the Franks, Bishop Boniface sends greetings.
To his venerable and beloved apostolic lord and Pope Stephen, Boniface, a humble legate or messenger in Germany of...