36Mercator's memorandum to the church of Constantinople and the emperor recounts the condemnations of Caelestius and Pelagius at Carthage, Rome and in Palestine, quotes Pelagius's commentary on Romans and his letter to Livania, and calls on Julian to condemn them.
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. No tradition names him a saint, but he wrote in defence of the church's teaching and was never rejected by the church of his time or later.
Date
Greek original 429; Latin version after 431 (approximate) · The Greek memorandum was presented at Constantinople in 429 (consulship of Florentius and Dionysius); Mercator's Latin version, with the caption that mentions the Council of Ephesus (431), is later.
Written at
Constantinople, Thrace (approximate)
Language
Latin
Genre
treatise
Reference system
Single unit 36 of Schwartz's numbering in ACO I.5, pp. 65-70, with the printed caption kept as the heading (the caption, in the third person, is the work of the collector of the Collectio Palatina, not of Mercator).
SBL abbreviation
Common. Caelest.Not yet checked
Text from
Eduard Schwartz, ed., Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum, vol. 1.5, Collectio Palatina (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1924-1926), pp. 65-70 (Printed edition (Schwartz, 1924-1926) in the public domain in the United States)
Critical editions
Eduard Schwartz, ed., Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum 1.5 (1924-1926); Migne, PL 48 (Garnier's edition) (cited, not reproduced)