Letter 2,2 - to Bishop Praejectus. september 591.
"It has come to our attention that in your city, that is Narni, the sins hanging over it are causing a deadly epidemic everywhere. This matter has been all too distressing for us.
Therefore, in greeting your Fraternity, we persuade you most emphatically not to cease for any reason from admonishing and exhorting those Lombards or Romans who live in that place, and especially the pagans and heretics among them, so as to convert them to the true and righteous Catholic faith.
For in this way maybe either heavenly compassion will help in their conversion even in this life, or if they happen to be carried off, they cross over absolved of their sins, which is even more desirable."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 194.
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