Letters 36

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

36 To Flavian, Bishop of Constantinople PL 54, 809

(He acknowledges the receipt of Flavian’s second letter (xxvi.) and protests against the necessity for a general council, though at the same time he acquiesces in it. Dated 21 June, a week after the Tome).

Litteras et gesta synodi adversus Eutychem se accepisse monet.

FLAVIANO charissimo fratri LEO papa.

Litteras tuae dilectionis accepi cum gestis, quae apud vos de fidei quaestione confecta sunt. Et quia clementissimus imperator pro Ecclesiae pace sollicitus synodum voluit congregari, quamvis evidenter appareat, rem, de qua agitur, nequaquam synodali indigere tractatu; tamen, frater charissime, subsecutos esse significo, quos in hac re placuit destinare. Nec necessarium fuit nunc amplius scribi, cum, propitio Deo, de his quae causae credimus convenire per ea quae ipsi portabunt scripta sis plenius instruendus. Data duodecimo kalendas Julii, Asturio et Protogene viris clarissimis consulibus.

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).