Letter 1,72 - to Gennadius, patrician and exarch of Africa. August 591.
"Just as the Lord has made your Excellency shine in this life with the brightness of your victories in wars against our enemy, even so you should oppose the enemies of his Church with all the force of your mind and body, so that from both triumphs your fame shines forth more and more, as you both earnestly resist adversaries to the Catholic Church in public wars, for the sake of the Christian people, and bravely fight ecclesiastical battles like a warrior for the Lord.
For it is known that men of heretical religion, if they are given the license to do harm (Heaven forbid!), rise up strongly against the Catholic faith, so as to transfuse the limbs of the Christian body with their own poisonous heresy, to pollute them if they can.
For we know that they are raising their heads against the Catholic Church, with the Lord opposing them, and want to bring down the faith of the Christian name.
But let your Eminence check their attempt, and press down their arrogant necks with the yoke of rectitude."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 186.
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