Letters

Salvian, servant of God and of the brethren, to the holy monks of Lerins, greetings.

The theme that runs through all my thinking in these years — the collapse of the Roman world and what it means for...

Your response to my last letter was characteristically generous and characteristically penetrating, and I want to...

The state of the Gallic church in this time of upheaval is something I want to discuss with you plainly, because I...

We know that our decision — to adopt the ascetic life, to distribute our property to the poor, and to commit...

Your letter arrived and I read it with the pain that comes from knowing that you are suffering and that I am, in...

I write this third letter in the hope that it may be the one that produces, if not agreement, at least a measure of...

The question you raise about the relationship between divine providence and human freedom in the context of the...

To my most beloved brother Timothy [a name used as a cover, perhaps after the biblical Timothy; Salvian was...