Catholic people, terrible to say, and religious ones too, which is even worse, are consenting that their children and slaves, and any others under their control, should be baptized into the heresy of the Donatists. And so, if this is true, your Fraternity should be extremely keen to remedy it, so that through your concern, the sincerity of true faith may stand inviolate, and innocent souls, which could have been saved by Catholic baptism, might not perish from the infection of heretics.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 429
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