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.
Sign in to track your progress, highlight verses, and follow a reading plan.
Contents
Letters, Book 11
1To John, Abbot of Mount Sinai2To Conon, Abbot of Lerins3To Serenus, Bishop of Marseilles, on the Breaking of Images4To Januarius, Bishop of Cagliari5To Augustine, Bishop of the Angles6To Bertha, Queen of the Angles7To Venantius, Patrician of Syracuse, Once a Monk8To Marinianus, Bishop of Ravenna, on Gregory’s Own Sickness9To Marinianus, Bishop of Ravenna, on His Vomiting of Blood10To Barbara and Antonina11To John, Bishop of Syracuse12To Romanus, Defensor of Sicily, on Clerics and Their Bishops13To Vitus, Appointing Him Defensor of the Church14To Marinianus, Bishop of Ravenna, on Fasting in His Illness15To Rusticiana the Patrician, on the Miracles at Saint Andrew’s Monastery16To Theoctista the Patrician, on Slander and the Errors Laid to Her Charge17To Isacius, Bishop of Jerusalem18To Anatolius, Deacon at Constantinople, on the Sick Bishop John19To Adrian, Notary of Palermo, on a Husband Who Became a Monk20To Desiderius, Bishop of Vienne, on Teaching Grammar21To Virgilius, Bishop of Arles22To Aetherius, Bishop of Lyons23To Aregius, Bishop of Gap24To Various Bishops of Gaul, Commending the Monks Sent to Augustine25To Theodoric, King of the Franks, on a Synod Against Simony26To Theodebert, King of the Franks, on a Synod Against Simony27To Clotaire, King of the Franks, on the Monks and on Simony28To Queen Brunhild, Commending the Monks Sent to Augustine29To Queen Brunhild, on a Synod Against Simony30To Augustine, Bishop of the Angles, Answering His Questions31To Augustine, Bishop of the Angles, on the Pallium and the Sees of London and York32To Ethelbert, King of the Angles33To Quiricus and the Bishops of Iberia, on Receiving Nestorians34To Virgilius, Bishop of Arles, Commending Augustine35To Queen Brunhild, on Wicked Priests in Her Kingdom36To Mellitus the Abbot, on the Temples of the Angles37To Boniface, Defensor in Corsica38To Barbara and Antonina, on Their Marriages and Their Gift