Letter 3003: The holy festival, which we celebrated prosperously through your intercession, was crowned by the letter of...
Avitus of Vienne→Viventiolus, (later of Lyon)|c. 493 AD|Avitus of Vienne
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From: Avitus, bishop of Vienne
To: Viventiolus, bishop (formerly the rhetorician from the grammar dispute)
Date: ~493 AD
Context: A brief, warm note congratulating Viventiolus — now a bishop — on a holy festival and expressing hope that he will visit Vienne.
Avitus, bishop, to Bishop Viventiolus.
The holy festival, which we celebrated prosperously through your intercession, was crowned by the letter of affection you sent. It made us all the happier because the unity that embraces the church — which is one everywhere — extends to our shared joy as well.
May Christ grant that, just as this year you fulfilled our desires with such happy signs, so in the time to come you may bestow upon the church of Vienne the visit we always long for.
Avitus episcopus Viventiolo episcopo.
Festivitati sanctae cumulus, quam prospere vestra intercessione transegimus, cari-
tatis apicibus, quos direxistis, adcrevit: et ob id multipliciter reddidit laetiores, quod
ecclesiam, quae ubique una est, unitas complectitur gaudiorum. Tribuat Christus, ut,
sicut anno praesenti desideria nostra felicibus complestis indiciis, ita tempore secuturo
visitationem semper optandam Viennensi ecclesiae conferatis.
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From:Avitus, bishop of Vienne
To:Viventiolus, bishop (formerly the rhetorician from the grammar dispute)
Date:~493 AD
Context:A brief, warm note congratulating Viventiolus — now a bishop — on a holy festival and expressing hope that he will visit Vienne.
Avitus, bishop, to Bishop Viventiolus.
The holy festival, which we celebrated prosperously through your intercession, was crowned by the letter of affection you sent. It made us all the happier because the unity that embraces the church — which is one everywhere — extends to our shared joy as well.
May Christ grant that, just as this year you fulfilled our desires with such happy signs, so in the time to come you may bestow upon the church of Vienne the visit we always long for.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.