Letter 1,10 - to Honoratus, deacon of Salona. November 590.
"We were distressed, for the reason that among you [the deacon and his bishop, AS] charity recognizes nothing. However, we command you to administer in the office of your order, and if the reason for your quarrel can be confined there, with grace in abundance, we believe that your soul has been greatly enriched. But if instead discord has armed the two parties among you in such a way that your will must remain in a ferment of antagonism, present yourself to our audience without delay, and let your bishop send a chosen person on his behalf with instructions, so that after weighing everything with careful reasoning, we may decide what seems right for each of the two parties."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 128.
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