Letters172 Letter CLXXII. To the same, in the name of Godfrey, bishop of Langres. (A.D. 1139)
Letter CLXXII. To the same, in the name of Godfrey, bishop of Langres. (A.D. 1139)
He expresses the same thought as in the preceding Letter, Amidst the numerous evils which nowadays are seen in the churches on the occasion of elections the Lord hath looked down from heaven upon our Mother Church of 1 I.e., the pallium.—[E.]
Lyons, and has without strife given it a worthy successor to Peter of pious memory, its Archbishop, in the person of Falco, its Dean. I ask, my lord, that he who has been unanimously elected by his fellows, promoted for the good of all, and duly consecrated, may receive at your hands the fulness of honour that belongs to his office. And what makes me seek this is not so much consciousness of his merits, but of my duty—duty laid upon me not only by the metropolitan dignity of that Church, but because I am placed in this position in order that I may bear my testimony to the truth.
Inter crebra mala quae his diebus in Ecclesiis videntur accidere occasione electionum, Dominus de coelo prospexit super matrem nostram Lugdunensem Ecclesiam, qui decedenti piae memoriae Petro archiepiscopo, virum optimum, Falconem decanum, in omni pace substituit. Peto, domine, ut qui a suis concorditer est electus, utiliter promotus, rite consecratus, a vobis honoris sui officiique plenitudinem consequatur. Quod utique audere me facit non meriti conscientia, sed debiti. Debiti dico non solum quo id a me illa Ecclesia jure metropolitico exigit, sed quia in hoc positus sum, ut testimonium perhibeam veritati.