Letter 64: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

How great a zeal burns in us for gathering the most sacred churches together in concord, we have long since made clear, since from the very beginning of our reign we deemed it right to admonish your holiness to send certain representatives, so that through their intervention some remedy might be found for these matters, and even before those who were dispatched arrived, we prepared everything so that what had to be arranged through this most flourishing city might be more easily transacted. But since petitions have been presented to our divinity from various eastern provinces, with certain persons setting forth particular matters concerning the catholic faith and declaring the secrets of their mind, testifying to what has been established among them regarding the undivided Trinity and showing that they will firmly hold to these things — and when these were read, Dioscorus [papal legate] asserted that certain things had been inserted in an improper order — we have rightly deemed it necessary to disclose to you what we have been informed of. Not long from now, therefore, someone will be dispatched by us to give your blessedness more certain information about all matters and to convey to you the petitions that have been presented to us and to bring back the response of your holiness, so that incongruous doubts may at last be cut away. Therefore, confident in our purpose, deign to appease the supreme divinity for us with earnest prayers.

lusTiNus AUGusTus HOBJQSDAE FAPAE. Quauto fiagramus 5 studio pro colligendis concordia sacratissimis ecclesiis iam- dudum planum fecisse dinoscimur, qui et ab ineunte nostro imperio sanctitudinem uestram admonendam duximus, quo certos dirigeret, ut interuentu eorum remedium aliquod his rebus inueniri possit, et, antequam aduenerint qui destinati lo sunt, cuncta praeparauimus, quo facilius transigerentur, quae 2 per hanc florentissimam urbem disponenda fuerant. uerum quoniam preces nostro numi<ni>porrectae sunt ex diuersis Eois prouinciis certa quaedam disserentibus pro fide catholica secretaque suae mentis declarantibus, quae apud se pro i& indiuidua trinitate constituta testantur quaeque firmiter sese retenturos ostendunt, hisque relectis Dioscorus aliqua asseruit non conuenienti ordine inserta fuisse : merito duximus aperienda 3 uobis ea, quae suraus edocti. non multo itaque post a nobis quidam destinabitur ad certiorem faciendam beatitudinem so tuam super omnibus et insinuandas uobis supplicationes, quae nobis oblatae sunt, et responsum pietatis uestrae referendum, quo possint resecari tandem dubitationes incongruae. securi igltur de nostro consilio sollicitis orationibus placare nobis 181. Bat (simul eum epp. 182 183 185) a. 520 die 19 lan.: per Eulogium. Edd. Car. P 529; Bar. ad a. 520, 3; CoUect. ConcU.; Thiel 908. 6 concordia F, corr. o 7 <nos^ planum Car. dinosci- tur F, correxi (cf. ep. 232 § 1) 9 interuentum F, corr. p ali- quid F, corr. o 11 transigentur F, corr. 13 numij F, corr. o Epist. CLXXX 2 — CLXXXn 3. 637 diuinitatem summain dignemini. Data XIIII. Eal. Febr. Constantinopoli Uitaliano et Busticio conss.