Letter 2,36 - to Lucillus, bishop of Malta. July 592
"The proposal of our office is very fitting, that is to fully persuade those who are subject to us feel obliged to show good faith in agreements made, in case, while seized by an inconsiderate passion for making money, they turn a peaceful arrangement into a quarrel. And so it has come to our attention that clerics of your Fraternity, who hold lands of the Church in Africa, refuse to pay rent on the same possessions. But if it is true that these matters have been brought to your Fraternity'e notice, their fault is the product of your inactivity over this matter. Wherefore we warn you with this present letter not to allow the same clerics to make use of any delay or excuse."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 214.
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