Letter 93: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

The diversity of reports has made us anxious for a long time about your welfare and about the nature of the undertaking you have assumed, especially since we have been unable to learn anything certain through so long a time from any written response from your affection. We, however, having found an opportunity with a letter-carrier, have preferred to communicate these very things. Therefore, with greetings, know that we are well with the help of almighty God — which we desire to hear about you as well. But so that you may more fully instruct our understanding about all that has been done — by what persons and in what places you were well received, as we trust, and where or on what feast of the Lord's resurrection your charity observed the day, and what you have done since then — declare all things fully in a running response, so that you may be able to relieve our anxiety concerning the prosperity of your affairs and of yourselves, and so that, if the cause has lacked anything pertaining to the instructions you received, we may be able to add it with the help of our God.

HORMISDA GERMANO ET lOHANNI EPISCOPIS FELICl ET DIOSCORO DiAcoNis ET BLANDO PRESBYTERO. Opinionum diucrsitas diu nos facit de prosperitate uestra uel de susceptae actionis qualitate soUicitos, praecipue cum nihil certum tam diuturno tempore uestrae diiectionis potuissemus rescriptione cognoscere. 25 nos taraen reperta latoris occasione haec ipsa significare maluimus. quapropter salutantes, cum dei omnipotentis auxilia incolomes nos esse cognoscite, quod et de uobis audire 2 desideramus. sed ut de omnibus, quae gesta sunt, nostram Epist. ccxvni 3 — CCXXI 1. 681 plenius possitis instruere notionem, a quibus personis uel in quibus locis bene, sicut credimus, suscepti fueritis uel ubi aut sub qua festiuitate resun-ectionis dominicae caritas uestra tenuerit diem et quid deinceps egeritis, per omnia rescriptis currentibus declarate, quatenus cogitationem nostram de uestra et actuum prosperitate releuare possitis et, si quid instructioni, quam suscepistis, causae defuerit, subiungere cum dei nostri solatio ualeamus. Data VII. Kal. Maias Eutharico cons.