Letter 220: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

We have received through the bearer the report of your legation. The matters you have communicated concerning the churches of the East and their progress toward full unity are welcome to us, and we give thanks to God who has blessed your labors. Concerning the particular questions that have been raised, we have sent our determinations in the accompanying letters. We exhort you to continue in your work, neglecting nothing that pertains to the full accomplishment of the peace which has been so well begun. May God guard you in safety.

Celeris illustris ad Hormisdam papam. ^*9j^ui*^' Consiantinopolitana ecclesia feliciter ad unitatem reducta, circa alias ecclesias ^^' /v singulari clementia opus esse innuit. ^ '' Domino beatissimo et apostolico patri Hormisdae Celer»). Maxima nobis gratulationis causa praestatur, quotiens ad apo- stolatum vestrum scribendi tempus emerserit. Nunc igitur remeante beatissimo Germano episcopo vel reverendissimis viris, qui a vobis pro conjungendis sanctis ecclesiis fuerunt destinati, necessarium duximus sanctitatem vestram debite^) venerari, indicantes, ante- dictos habuisse quidem studium, ut voluntatem vestram plenus se- queretur eflFectus; sed quia totum corpus erat infirmum, interim caput, quod prius necessarium judicatur, adhibito medicamine vestro sanatum est, et dissensio, quae erat inter venerabiles ecclesias Ro- rant, quidpiam relaxare, nunc appellat Justinus ab Hormisda ad Hormisdam, ab ipsius severitate ad ejus clementiam, a rigorc disciplinae ad modcratiorem quamdam indulgentiae demissionem. 117 *) Ed. nostrorum. Mox G* precibus nostris. 118 *) In G* hic deest vir illustris: sed in hujus scripti fronte legitur Kpistola Celeris iiltistris. (a. 520.) manani et Constantinopolitanain , unitate interveniente sepulta est, et alia non parva membra simili Divinitatis gratda pnrgata atque conjuncta. Htmc etiam spem gerimus uniyersi, quod gratia Dei, quae semper sedi vestrae permansit et permanet, hujusmodi vobis inspirationem bonitatis praebeat, ut mansuetudine et dispensatione vestra reliquum adhuc corpus, quod habetur infirmum, sicut superins a nobis dictiun, vestro medicamine unitate recepta jungatur. Spe- cialiter autem deprecamur pontificium vestrum, ut pro nobis benigno patris animo orare jubeatis.