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Quote from Letter 5,27 to Gaudentius, bishop of Nola. March 595

Let your Fraternity restore the ten gold coins that Festus, one-time bishop of the above-mentioned church [of Capua], took from Rusticus, his archdeacon, because Rusticus is said to have reached such terrible poverty that something should be conferred on him rather than taken away from him. For it is hard to neglect a person even far from his priestly office, when he is subject to need, while longing for money indecently, so keen to pile it up.

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, translated by John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMPS, 2004), II, 341