Letter 75: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

Euphemia Augusta [empress, wife of Justin I] to Pope Hormisdas. We have received your Beatitude's letter with a grateful and joyful spirit. For whose words would not be received with the most willing ears, a man whom not only the authority of the apostolic see honors but whom the integrity of his life also commends, together with his zealous skill in the right faith? Therefore we ask and we admonish you that my name, and above all that of our most serene consort, may never be absent from your prayers; but that by your entreaties the protection from on high may be made favorable both to us each and to the commonwealth.