Letters 143

Pope St Leo I the Great (AD 390–461) · Epistolae · PL 54, 582–1218

143 To Anatolius, Bishop of Constantinople PL 54, 1111

(Briefly asking him to extirpate all remains of heresy.)

LEO ANATOLIO episcopo.

Curae esse dilectioni tuae charitatis officia libenter accipio; et ut his crebrius utaris exhortor: quoniam ad totius Ecclesiae pertinet utilitatem, cum quae aguntur agnoscimus. In qua autem sollicitudine dilectionem tuam vigilare conveniat indubitanter intelligis: quia aliquantas apud vos pravorum hominum resedisse reliquias recognoscis, quibus comprimendis, vel potius, quantum Dominus auxiliatur, abolendis cupimus te instanter incumbere: ne, quod absit, sub aliqua segnitie lenitatis, quae tardius fuerint destructa revalescant. Datum tertio idus Martii, Valentiniano Augusto VIII consule.

Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (eds.), New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890-1900. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).