Schism And Concord

Letter 2,43 - to all of the eastern bishops concerning the Three-Chapters. July 592

"For you ought to know, just as Saint Cyprian says, that 'a punishment does not create a martyr, but a cause does'. Provided therefore that this is so, it is quite incongruous for you to glory in that persecution which you describe, through which it is certain that you are in no way being brought to eternal rewards.
And so may the integrity of your faith finally bring back your Charities to the mother Church into which you were born. May no mental strain separate you from the unity of concord, no persuasion tire and prevent you from rejoining the path of righteousness.
For in the synod, which dealt with the Three-Chapters, it is quite obvious that nothing to do with faith was cancelled or changed at all. Rather, as you know, action was only taken over certain persons there, one of whom, whose writings evidently deviated from the correctness of Catholic faith, was not unjustly condemned."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 222.