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Letter 1,67 - to Peter, sub-deacon of Sicily, August 591.

"Just as it is fitting that it is part of our desire to remove monks from the state's legal system, so that they may piously and wisely pay attention to divine ministries, even so it is necessary for us to arrange with our foresight how their businesses should be settled, so that a mind over-strained through various worries over legal cases should not break down and become dull and weak in the celebration of its usual offices.
And thus the bearer of this letter, the abbot John, has asserted that he has a great deal of business at his monastery. For this reason we ask your Experience with the order in this letter, that you should speak with Faustus, who was court secretary to Romanus, a magnificent gentleman and ex-preator. If your find that he feels favorable to this matter, your ought to commend the business of that monastery generally, and to arrange a salary."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 182.