(As) he promised to restrain himself from wicked deeds. For that reason your Holiness should take care to be concerned about his soul, for God's sake, and to recall him with your exhortations to the path pleasing to God. And if, with the Lord's help, he is willing to remove himself from all wickedness and to live honestly, as he promised, let your Fraternity provide an allowance, at your cost, to look after him, so that he may not perhaps seem to find an excuse for acting badly from a shortage of supplies.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 431
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