Gregory the Great, bishop of Rome from 590 to 604: the Book of Pastoral Rule on what a pastor is and how he should teach each kind of person, and his selected letters from the Register, from the Lombard wars and the mission to the English to the quarrel over the title Ecumenical Patriarch. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
Letters, Book 10
1To Romanus, Defensor in Sicily, on Bishop Basilius and the Law Courts2To Clementina the Patrician, on Holding Grudges3To Clementina the Patrician, on Amandus Chosen Bishop of Sorrento4To Anthemius, Subdeacon of Campania, on Sending Amandus to Rome5To Adrian, Notary of Sicily, on the Monks of Saint Vitus6To Fortunatus, Bishop of Naples, on Testing Monks Before the Tonsure7To Libertinus, Former Praetor, on Bearing Losses with Thanks8To Eulogius, Patriarch of Alexandria, on Gregory’s Illness and the Agnoetae9To Maximus, Bishop of Salona, on the Slavs and the Defense of the Poor10To Innocent, Prefect of Africa, on His New Office and the Book on Job11To Eulogius, Patriarch of Alexandria, on the Agnoetae and What the Son Knows12To Eusebius, Archbishop of Thessalonica, on Peace and the Council of Chalcedon13To the Clergy and Nobles of Naples, on a Divided Election14To Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage, on the Plague