Quote from Letter 5,43 to Domitian, metropolitan bishop. 1 June 595
The letters of your beatitude, most charming and one whom I should embrace to the full extent of my heart, I received sadly but reread happily. For who would not grieve in this land, which has been handed over to the swords of the barbarians, and now has almost no one who can live in it, and yet has people dying in it every day?
But whatever amount of sadness one might feel, who woould not be aroused by your letters to the joy of exaltation? In them with the efficiency of your speech and the talent of your most powerful wisdom, they spoke to the depths of my heart, with the tongue not of the flesh, but of true love.
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