Letter 1,13 - to Dominic, bishop of Civitavecchia. December 590.
"It is indeed part of a priest's duty that you are obliged to provide assistance for widows and for women bereft of a husband's support, so that where in this world they are deprived of a truly human life, they can find remedies under the protection of a priest. Since therefore Luminosa, an honorable women and wido of the very famous tribune Zemarcus, has entrusted herself, after God, to our protection, we advise you to give her relief in whatever she needs, and let nobody cause her trouble in the slightest degree.
But because, with the agreement of the Palatine Theodore, the wife herself has been allowed to carry out that financial command, which her husband had undertaken to exercise (..), you should not allow anything to disturb her while she carries it out."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 129..
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