Quote from Letter 7,1 to Fortunatus, bishop of Naples. October 596
Her husband, one of your clerics, is known to have removed her from living with him, because she had been attacked over her slave status. They assert that while stationed here, you promised that you would restore her to her husband, if she could prove with the Lord's help that she was free.
Your Fraternity should know, therefore, that, as revealed by God, the source of liberty, she has been proved free and no sign of slavery has been found in her. With this knowledge, therefore, we want her to be restored to her husband without any delay. Likewise, her husband must not look any more for arguments for himself, as an excuse to get rid of her.
Her husband, one of your clerics, is known to have removed her from living with him, because she had been attacked over her slave status. They assert that while stationed here, you promised that you would restore her to her husband, if she could prove with the Lord's help that she was free.
Your Fraternity should know, therefore, that, as revealed by God, the source of liberty, she has been proved free and no sign of slavery has been found in her. With this knowledge, therefore, we want her to be restored to her husband without any delay. Likewise, her husband must not look any more for arguments for himself, as an excuse to get rid of her.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 451
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