Quote from Letter 6,28 to Marinianus, bishop of Ravenna. March 596
We are sad about this, because you provide very clear proof that the words of evil persuaders have had more effect on you than the study of Holy Scripture has benefited you.
And when you ought to be defending monasteries and collecting religious people in them as much as you can, so that you might make a profit from the community of souls, you want to exercise yourself quite differently, in making things hard for them, as your letters testify. What is worse, you are keen that we should have to share in your fault, while with our consent, of course, you are keen to burden the monastery which your predecessor founded, under the pretext of looking after its property and legal cases.
We are sad about this, because you provide very clear proof that the words of evil persuaders have had more effect on you than the study of Holy Scripture has benefited you.
And when you ought to be defending monasteries and collecting religious people in them as much as you can, so that you might make a profit from the community of souls, you want to exercise yourself quite differently, in making things hard for them, as your letters testify. What is worse, you are keen that we should have to share in your fault, while with our consent, of course, you are keen to burden the monastery which your predecessor founded, under the pretext of looking after its property and legal cases.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 423
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