RRR:
2546
YEAR:
1246
text:
August 9. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the Greek patriarch of Antioch [Simeon II] and his suffragans, announcing the legation in their region of Brother Lawrence [of Portugal] of the Friars Minor (Franciscans), papal penitentiary, a mission justified by the full power that Christ conceded to the Holy See. The pope orders the addressees to welcome and treat the legate properly and to obey his commands, otherwise the pope will back up the just sentences the legate promulgates against rebels. The pope also writes to the Armenian Catholicos [Constantine], the patriarch of the Maronites and their suffragans.
Sources:
Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:457, no. 3046; Acta Innocentii IV, pp. 74-75, no. 32; Schabel et al., Bullarium 1:358-59, no. e-18
