Letter 192: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

Concerning those things which the report of your love's actions has set forth, we give thanks to our God, who has deigned to assist your labor, and we exhort you to press upon the most merciful emperor and his most pious consort, the Augusta, with the proper attentions, and to act, with Christ our Lord assisting and with all things arranged under ecclesiastical observance, so that all the churches which are situated in whatever part of the world may be recalled to the communion of the apostolic see. Concerning the churches of Alexandria and Antioch in particular, labor that they may be joined to our faith under proper observance, because the perfection of so great a matter obtains the grace of divine favor for both the most merciful emperor and for you. Given in the above-mentioned consulship [519 AD].

^'9 Jiin Hormisdae papae ad Germanom ceterosque legatos. Ut apud imperatorem ejusgue conjugem agant, guo omnes ecdesiae^ praecipue vero Alexandrina et Antiochena, ad apostolicae sedis communionem revocentur. Hormi*sda Germano et Johanni episcopis, Felici et Dioscoro diaconis, et Blando presbytero. ep. (»4. De his, quae acta caritatis vestrae relatio comprehendit, gratias Deo nostro referimus, qui laborem vestrum juvare dignatus est, et hortamur, ut clementissimo principi et piissimae Augustae conjugi ejus officiis imminere competentibus debeatis, et agere auxiliaute Christo nostro universis sub ecclesiastica observatione dispositis, ut oraues ecclesiae, quae in qualibet mundi parte sunt positae, ad com- uumionem sedis apostolicae revocentur. De Alexandiina yero atque Antiochena ecclesiis elaboratc, ut nostrae fidei sub observatione ra- tionabili connectantur, quia tantae rei perfectio tam clemeutissimo 86 •) Qnao hiijua Grati dignitas fiicrit, ox epistolis 42 et 46 ropete. Amice cnm eo oxpostiilat , qiiod PiiIlioDis opportunitato data, nnllas ab eo littoras ac- c»'perit. EPISTOLAE 85 — 89. 885 priiicipi quam vobis gratiam divinae propitiationis acquirit. Data (a. 519.) quo^) supra consule.