Letter 1,62 - to Januarius, archbishop of Cagliari in Sardina. July 591.
"(I)t has been suggested to us that Catella, a religious woman, (whose son is fighting here for the Holy Church of Rome over which we preside, with God's authority), is being troubled by the forced entries and disturbances of certain men, so we have thought it necessary concerning this matter to encourage your Fraternity with the present letter to provide protection for the same aforesaid woman.
To preserve justice, your Fraternity should not decline, knowing that from deeds of this sort it may both make the Lord its debtor and bind our love around it more tightly.
For we want the cases of the aforesaid women, whether they are active now or in the future, to be terminated by your judgment, so that her legal disturbance should be removed. Yet she should in no way be denied the justice of a judgement.
But I pray the Lord to direct your path towards him with a prosperous course, and once appeased, to lead you himself to the glory of the coming kingdom."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 180.
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