Letter 180: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

The diversity of rumors has long made us anxious about your well-being and the quality of the undertaking you have received, especially since we have been unable to learn anything certain by a reply from your love over so long a time. We, however, having found an opportunity with a letter-bearer, have preferred to communicate these very things. Wherefore, with greetings, know that we are safe with the help of almighty God, which we desire to hear of you as well. But so that you may more fully inform our knowledge about all that has been done — by whom you were received and in what places, well, as we believe — or where and under what festivity of the Lord's resurrection your love observed the day, and what you did thereafter, declare it all by letters sent in haste: so that you may relieve our concern regarding your prosperity and the progress of affairs, and if anything was lacking in the instructions you received for the case, we may be able, with the comfort of our God, to supply it. Given on the seventh day before the Kalends of May [April 25], in the consulship of the most distinguished Eutharicus [519 AD].

f^;^.^^.^ Hormisdae papae ad Oermanum et soeios. 25April. ^ ^ De eoritm incolumitate et rebus f/estis certior /ieri cupit. p.l Hormisda Germano etJohanni episcopis, Feliciet Dioscoro diaconis et Blando presbytero. Opinionum divcrsitas diu nos facit de prosperitate vestra vel 3^ ') Orationis series postulare videtur invicto ... vexiUo. 71 V) Poni])eji, ut ad epist. 69 est aunotatuin, consobriua et uxoris ejus Ana- stasiae cognata, cujus praeclaruui quoddain facinus Gregorius Turon. lil». *ie glor. mart. 1. l c. 103 comniendat. EPISTOLAE 70—73. 8G7 de susceptae actionis qualitate sollicitoS; praecipue quum nihil cer-a. 519. tum tam diuturno tempore vestrae dilectionis potuissemus rescriptione cognoscere. Nos tamen reperta latoris occasione faaec ipsa signi- ficare maluimus. Quapropter salutantes^ cum Dei omnipotentis auxiUo incolumes nos esse cognoscite, quod et de vobis audire de- sideramus. Sed ut de onmibuS; quae gesta sunt; nostram plenius possitis instruere notionem, a quibus personis vel in quibus locis bene, sicut credimus, sus<?epti fueritis, vel ubi aut sub qua festivi- tate resurrectionis dominicae caritas vestra tenuerit diem, et quid deinceps egeritis, per omnia rescriptis currentibus declarate: qua- tenus nostram ^) cogitationem de vestra et actuum prosperitate rele- vare possitis, et si quid instructioni quam suscepistis causae de- fuerit, subjungere cum Dei nostri solatio valearaus. Data VII Ca- lendas Majas, Eutharico viro clarissimo consule.