Persons And Paperwork

Letter 3,12 - to Maximian, bishop of Syracuse. November 592

"Some time ago indeed I had written to your Fraternity saying that you ought to send over to the city of Rome those who had said anything against Gregory, bishop of Agrigento. We advise now with this present letter that it ought to be done even more pressingly.
Therefore hurry to transmit with all speed the persons themselves and the rest of the documents, that is the accounts and petitions that were handed over. We absolutely do not allow you to ask for any delay or excuse, so that when they have been sent over to the city of Rome, as we said, with all speed, we may know what we ought to determine about his person with more success, with God's help."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 244.