Protection, 2/3

Letter 1,61 - to Januarius, archbishop of Cagliari in Sardinia. July 591

"Although your Fraternity devotes yourself quite appropriately to justice with enthusiasm, for the defense of all sorts of people, we believe that you are more ready certainly to relieve those people who are commended to you by our letter.
Pompeiana therefore, a religious woman, has suggested through a person of hers that she is continually suffering many troubles from certain people, without any reason, and she is known to have begged us to commend her to you by our authority because of this.
For that reason, while saluting your Fraternity with a due feeling of love, we have necessarily thought that the aforesaid women should be commended to you. This, with the accompaniment of justice, your Fraternity might prevent her from being unfairly burdened in any way, or from inadvisably suffering any losses."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 180.