Letter 2,8 - to the clergy, senate and people living at Naples. December 591.
" We congratulate you for having tested him [Paul] our so thoroughly, during just a few days, that you desire to have him incardinated as a bishop.
But because in very important matters a decision ought not to be hasty, we shall determine presently what should be done, with mature deliberation and the help of Christ.
As for you, it will become clearer to you after a period of time what sort of person he shows himself to be. And for that reason, most beloved sons, obey the aforesaid man, if you truly love him, and come to him with devoted minds and in a peaceful meeting.
Thus the enemy, flying around to do harm, cannot find in any of you a way by which to infiltrate and break up your unanimity."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 198.
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