RRR: Correspondence/envoy
2197
year: 1233
initiator: Pope Gregory IX
recipient: Sultan of Damascus and the caliph in Baghdad
text: Feb. 15 and May 26. Anagni and Lateran. After lengthy expositions of the Christian faith, Pope Gregory IX asks the sultan of Damascus and the caliph in Baghdad to receive and listen to the Franciscans [fratres ordinis fratrum Minorum] who have been sent to them.
Feb. 15 and May 26. Anagni and Lateran. After lengthy expositions of the Christian faith, Pope Gregory IX asks the sultan of Damascus and the caliph in Baghdad to receive and listen to the Franciscans [fratres ordinis fratrum Minorum] who have been sent to them.
sources: Rodenberg, Epistolae 1:410-12, 422-3, nos. 512, 527 (RRH no. 1040)