Letter 10059: The restoration of the Altar of Victory [the famous pagan altar in the Senate House, removed by Gratian in 382 and...

Ambrose, Bishop, to the Emperor Gratian.

Personally, I find wise the things that you you claim are absurd.

When the dispute arose between Jerome and Epiphanius on the one side and Rufinus and John of Jerusalem on the other (see Letter LI.), Theophilus bishop of Alexandria, being appealed to by the latter sent the presbyter Isidore to report to him on the matter. Isidore reported against Jerome and consequently Theophilus refused to answer several of ...

1. I know that it is not on the possession of good talents and a liberal education that the salvation of the soul depends; but when I hear of any one who is thus endowed holding a different view from that which truth imperatively insists upon on a point which admits of very easy examination, the more I wonder at such a man, the more I burn with ...

You have asked about the status of widows in the Church, and your question comes at a good time, because the matter...