Letter 1,23 - to sub-deacon Anthelm. February, 591.
"It has been suggested to us that some nuns in the city of Nola, while staying in the Aborida, endured an excessive deprivation of food and clothing. From the precept of God, it is fitting that we help them and relieve their want as far as we can, with the Lord's giving.
For that reason we charge your Experience with the present order: from this present ninth indiction, you should give them forty gold coins and thereafter at subsequent indictions provide twenty gold coins each year, which you may charge to your accounts. (..) Do this therefore in such a way that you also participate in a future reward."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 134.
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