A certain person full of the promptings of an evil spirit, in the silence of the night, gave testimony in a place in your city against our notary and emissary, Castor, stating in his charge, and to me also, the need for peace, while cunningly speaking against it. And because whoever speaks the truth ought not to fear making himself known, he should come out publicly and reveal what he has presumed to say in his testimony. And if he does not come out, and does not publicly confess the identity of the person who presumed to do this, or gave his consent to a plan of such wickedness, we determine in the spirit of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, that he should be deprived of participation in His holy body and blood.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 428
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