Death Of Another Bishop

Quote from Letter 5,23 to Cyprian, deacon of the Sicilian patrimony. February 595

We believe that your Beloved has already learnt of the death o Bishop Theodore. But because he is said to have made a will, you must carefully inquire what he had used from the goods of his church. And if, indeed, you learn that he reduced them to some extent improperly, deal with it in such a way that the goods themselves are totally repaid by whom who is concerned in it.


Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, translated by John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMPS, 2004), II, 339