Support And Care

Quote from Letter 4,31 to Anthelm, sub-deacon. July 594.

We ought to give moderate support to those whom our Redeemer deems worthy to convert to himself from the Jewish perdition, so that they should not suffer from lack of food (Heaven forbid!). And for that reason, by the authority of this order, we charge you not to put off giving gold coins each year to the children of Justa, converted from Judaism, that is to Juliana, Redemptus and Fortuna, beginning with the approaching thirteenth indiction.


Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 312