Letters 87

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

87 To Anatolius, Bishop of Constantinople PL 54, 926

(Commending to him two presbyters, Basil and John, who being accused of heresy had come to Rome, and quite convinced Leo of their orthodoxy.)

Ei commendat Basilium et Joannem presbyteros, qui haeresis accusati Romam venerant rationem fidei suae reddituri.

LEO episcopus ANATOLIO confratri episcopo Constantinopolitano.

Ad declinandam erroris maculam, qua nonnullos aut Nestoriana impietas, aut Eutychiana labefactavit insania, laudabilem curam filii nostri Basilius et Joannes presbyteri suae aestimationis habuerunt: ut inter compugnantia dogmata falsitatis vera catholicae fidei pace gauderent. Siquidem longinquae peregrinationis labore suscepto, sensum cordis sui in apostolica sede patefecerunt, damnantes utramque haeresim, quarum supra fecimus mentionem, et de incarnatione Domini nostri Jesu Christi non aliud recipientes, quam quod, instruente sancto Spiritu, et didicimus, et docemus. Per hos ergo, frater charissime, cum testimonio nostro ad propria revertentes, dilectioni tuae nostra scripta direximus, fidenter hortantes ut qui gratia apostolicae communionis ornantur, etiam tuo favore per omnia se gaudeant adjuvari. Data decimo tertio kalendas Julii, Adelfio viro clarissimo 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).