Letter 3,49 - to Theodore, bishop of Lilybaeum. July 593
"The concern of your Fraternity is extremely welcome to us. For those things that you find out about the lives of your priests, you both take care to examine closely and, when investigated, you report back on them. Be zealous and vigilant, therefore, so that you can persist in this concern that we praise in you, without any diminution. And if you find out that any excesses are being perpetrated there by anyone (Heaven forbid!), if indeed they are of the sort that could be corrected there, let them be corrected reasonably. Otherwise, hasten to report back in a letter to our brother, Bishop Maximian so that when informed by you, he may know what should be done. For the more we applaud your vigilance now, the more culpable you are found to be if you have concealed facts of this sort with any kind of dissimulation."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 268.
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