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Letter 81

Litteras fraternitatis tuae per filios nostros Constantinopolitanos clericos, nuntias tuae salutis accepi [...]

In the letter Leo expresses his joy that Bishop Julian is no longer oppressed by tribulations and encourages him to be strict and unindulgent toward heretics.

(Patrologia Latina 54, 915-916 = Ballerini 1753: 1042-1043)

Letter 81

I have received the letters of Your Brotherhood through our sons, the clerics from Constantinople [...]

In the letter Leo expresses his joy that Bishop Julian is no longer oppressed by tribulations and encourages him to be strict and unindulgent toward heretics.

(trans. and summary M. Szada)

Discussion:

Leo probably refers here to the following legates: the Presbyter Casterius, and the Deacons Patricius and Ascelpias [1727].

Place of event:

Region

Rome
East

City

Rome
Constantinople
Cos

About the source:

Author: Leo the Great
Title: Letters, Epistulae
Origin: Rome (Rome)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

Leo the Great was the bishop of Rome from AD 440 to his death in AD 461. We have the collection of 173 letters of Leo.

Edition:

P. and G. Ballerini eds., Sancti Leoni Magni Romani pontificis opera, vol. 1, Venice 1753

Patrologia Latina, vol. 54

Bibliography:

S. Wessel, Leo the Great and the spiritual rebuilding of a universal Rome, Leiden; Boston 2008.

Categories:

Travel and change of residence

PR778.

Described by a title - Clericus

PR778.

Ecclesiastical administration - Ecclesiastical envoy

PR778.

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

PR778.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1734, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1734