4 surviving letters between Pope Gregory the Great and Theodelinda, spanning 593-604 AD.
Gregory to Theodelinda, Queen of the Lombards. It has come to our knowledge by the report of certain persons that your Glory has been led on by some bishops even to such an offense against holy Church as to withdraw yourself from the communion of Catholic unanimity. Now the more we sincerely love you, the more seriously are we distressed about y...
Gregory to Theodelinda, Queen of the Lombards. It has come to our knowledge from the report of certain persons that your Glory has been led on by some bishops even to the offense against holy Church of suspending yourself from the communion of Catholic unanimity. Now the more we sincerely love you, the more seriously are we distressed about you,...
How your Excellency has laboured earnestly and kindly, as is your wont, for the conclusion of peace we have learned from the report of our son, the abbot Probus. Nor indeed was it otherwise to be expected of your Christianity than that you would in all ways skew your assiduity and goodness in the cause of peace. Wherefore we give thanks to Almig...
The letters which you sent us a little time ago from the Genoese parts have made us partakers of your joy on account of our learning that by the favour of Almighty God a son has been given you, and, as is greatly to your Excellency's credit, has been received into the fellowship of the Catholic faith . Nor indeed was anything else to be supposed...