On Sick Priests

Letter 2,7 - to Candidus, bishop of Orvieto. December 591.

"When a bodily apoplexy occurs, whether for purging or for punishment (God's judgement is not recognized in this), we ought not to add affliction on those tormented, in case displeasure over their failing (Heaven forbid!) should fall on us.
The bearer of this letter, Calumniosus, asserts that, because of this seizure that he suffers, those goods customarily given to him by your church are being denied to him. And so we encourage your Fraternity with the present letter, to ensure that this sickness should not impede him at all in receiving what is customary for him, because with very different people in our Church fighting for God, various infirmities often arise, as you well know.
And if they are deterred by this example, you will no longer be able to find anyone to fight for the Church. But in accordance with that place's status, let your Fraternity contemplate divine judgement, and not cease to provide for him as a sick man, with what whatever could by provided for him as a sick man, with what whatever could be provided for him, if healthy, from the church's meager income."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 197.