Epistularum ad Diversos Libri Tres
You asked — or rather commanded, dearest brother — that I write to Your Beatitude and explain whether heretics'...
Avitus, bishop, to the Pope of Constantinople.
With the arrival of the present bearers, the gifts of your longed-for and revered affection have reached me now for...
Though the person of this venerable bearer commends himself to the hearts of brotherly love, the holy Bishop...
Though I have not earned any letter from Your Apostleship to prompt this initiative, your reputation compels me to...
It is perfectly clear how great is the grace of God in your merit, or how great a sum of virtues may be inferred,...
Avitus, bishop, to Bishop Contumeliosus.
It speaks well of your proven and outstanding devotion that you consider my counsel worth seeking on matters that...
You satisfy both prudence and charity by honoring me — and burdening me — with your questions.
What you have done is doubly full of devotion: by taking a brother to Lyon and sending word here, you sought out the...
[Bishop Avitus to Pope Symmachus of Rome.
[Bishop Avitus to the Bishop of Jerusalem.
Although you ought to have consulted more learned bishops about this prophetic reading — among whom I dare not count...
You reproach me for not having reported to you about the royal conference.
Your devotion has done what it always does — both extending concern about us and entrusting yours to us.
Your Apostolic Authority exercises the primacy granted by God and demonstrates that the preeminent position you hold...
However attentive the servants of the Lord's vineyard may be in their constant work of planting, there are always...
You command — and it is my heart's desire — that I attend both the new and the customary celebrations with the...
I received your letters after a long time.
Returning from the city of Lyon, where he had remained after we left the council to attend to some private business,...
I recognize that every day of my life leaves me indebted to the duty of service, but all the more so on the present...
Recently, when I sent the usual service owed to your eminence on the occasion of the apostolic feast, you said — in...
Avitus, bishop, to the most excellent Lord Sigismund.
Avitus, bishop, to the most excellent Lord Sigismund.
Avitus, bishop, to Faustus and Symmachus, senators of the city of Rome.
Avitus, bishop, to Liberius the prefect.
Avitus, bishop of Vienne, to the most illustrious Apollinaris.
Avitus, bishop, to the most illustrious Aurelianus.
Avitus, bishop, to the deacon Helpidius.
Avitus, bishop, to the most illustrious Senarius.
Avitus, bishop of Vienne, to Peter, bishop of Ravenna.
From the see most worthy of reverence — Avitus to Pope Hormisdas.
I have already sent a letter through my servants informing you how much your recommendation has benefited brother...
That I sent the servant who was needed for questioning from the basilica of Vienne to that of Lyon under guard —...
I returned from the feast to which I had traveled with the greatest haste.
The sharpness of your intelligence has not been deceived by the various followers of schisms who have tried to veil...
It is a matter as much of my longing as of my obligation to attend with particular care to the services that your...
If I could speak as well as you are kind enough to believe, my Latin would be an unwelcome intrusion on Greek ears.
I know with what devoted affection you wished me to come to our shared feast.
It has been a long time — if you will take my word for it, or if you judge rightly from our mutual affection — since...
I am greatly surprised that the person on whose behalf you deign to intercede — who denied his guilt to me alone...
The greatest fulfillment of our longing comes when our eager hopes learn that the magnificent state of your devotion...
Avitus, bishop, to the most distinguished Messianus.
Avitus, bishop, to Viventiolus the rhetorician.
After the holy festival — which we passed through, though anxious and fearful, under your intercession and God's...
The holy festival, which we celebrated prosperously through your intercession, was crowned by the letter of...
The letters from Your Beatitude, which the passage of time had made all the more desirable, arrived and were made...
After the holy services of the Lord's Nativity — at which I was present, though very ill and truly more than...
The happy beginnings of the festival, which you obtained by your intercession, you communicated with your affection.
As is your custom, you have heaped upon my longings the welcome tokens of your devotion.
I attribute it to my own sins rather than to any fault of yours that bodily illness prevented you from carrying out...
Avitus, bishop, to the most holy brother Alexandrinus.
The delicacies you sent are indeed magnificent and wonderfully generous — in their quantity, their timing, and their...
Were it not for the constant obstacles that sins throw in the way of our shared hopes, I would have obeyed the...
For the firmness of a divine promise, let what you first granted stand as your "Yes, yes!
Necessity prevented me from attending the feast; your kindness made the feast come to me.
You maintain the pattern of your kindness — or rather, to speak more truly, you surpass it.
As far as it concerns this poor little body of mine, I am getting by with some small reserves of strength — though...
The matter you reported in your letter had already reached me through faint rumor before your account.
While others feast on the holy and serene delights of your presence, I sustain the barrenness of my longing more by...
With God's favor, we celebrated with you — with you, I say, not in place but in spirit — the paschal feast, your...
Detained for two days by the presence of your glorious father, I organized the bearer somewhat late — the one...
The recent and — as I sense — not yet fully resolved illness of our lord has kept your servants so attentive and...
By keeping your household dependents away and in suspense about your plans, you prevent us from fully achieving or...
Your devotion maintains its customary care, visiting us with your gracious attention and your letters alike.
Having dispatched my service of a letter to our common lord, I also pay the respects always owed to your dear...
While the perpetual cause of love always supplies reason enough to pay my respects to your greatness, and while I...
After the feast, during which our hopes for the presence and safety of our lord were rightly fulfilled, I dispatched...
I am confident — and I have no doubt it is by divine gift — that our shared joy has been announced through shared...
Bound and burdened alike by the graciousness of your concern, the magnificence of your gift, and the constancy of...
Avitus, bishop, to the most holy brother Apollinaris.
[Bishop Avitus to Amandus.
I know that a letter of service intrudes importunely on the cares and occupations in which, under heaven's help, you...
It might seem like a failure of trust in divine promises for anyone to be anxious about your prosperity.
If I were not groaning with a shaken heart over the fall of a friend, there is much I would say about you — lying in...
Sigismund, king, to the most pious Emperor Anastasius.
Avitus, bishop, to the most distinguished Heraclius.