Support and Certainty

Letter 1,35 - to John, bishop of Ravenna. March 591.

"If we are attentive to the promise of out order, and to the office that we administer, we should help those afflicted as far as we can, with the support of justice.
And so, since we have learnt that the splendid gentleman and ex-prefect, Maurilio, is residing in Fossa Sconii, I want your Fraternity to help him at once, as far as possible.
Not because we have any doubt, Heaven forbid, about the justice of that most excellent gentleman, the prefect Lord George, or think that he is in some way turning from the path of reason, a man whom we have got to know in all good ways, even before the administration of this high office."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 155.