3 surviving letters between Aurelius and Pope Gregory the Great, spanning c. 601–601.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will Luke 2:14; because a grain of wheat, falling into the earth, has died, that it might not reign in heaven alone; even He by whose death we live, by whose weakness we are made strong, by whose suffering we are rescued from suffering, through whose love we seek in Britain for breth...
Here begins the epistle of the blessed Gregory pope of the city of Rome, in exposition of various matters, which he sent into transmarine Saxony to Augustine, whom he had himself sent in his own stead to preach. Preface.— Through my most beloved son Laurentius, the presbyter, and Peter the monk, I received your Fraternity's letter, in which you ...
Though it is certain that for those who labour for Almighty God ineffable rewards of an eternal kingdom are reserved, yet we must needs bestow honours upon them, that by reason of remuneration they may apply themselves the more manifoldly in devotion to spiritual work. And, since the new Church of the Angli has been brought to the grace of Almig...