Quote from Letter 8.4 to Brunhilde, queen of the Franks. September 597
We also exhort yout equally to restrain the rest of your subjects also, beneath a moderating discipline, so that they might not offer sacrifices to idols, or continue to worship trees or to make sacrilegious offerings over the heads of animals.
For we have learnt that many of the Christians flock to the churches, but, terrible to relate, theu do not give up the worship of demons. But since these things are thoroughly displeasing to our God, and because he does not own minds that are divided, ensure that they should be banned profitably from these unlawful practives, in case (Heaven forbid!) the sacrament of holy baptism might not sae them, but punish them.
(...) And so it is necessary that we should hasten with all endeavor and with continuous prayers to be converted to the compassion of our Redeemer, where there is a place for all, really safe and secure. For there, neither dangeer wears down nor fear disturbs anyone who persists firmly.
We also exhort yout equally to restrain the rest of your subjects also, beneath a moderating discipline, so that they might not offer sacrifices to idols, or continue to worship trees or to make sacrilegious offerings over the heads of animals.
For we have learnt that many of the Christians flock to the churches, but, terrible to relate, theu do not give up the worship of demons. But since these things are thoroughly displeasing to our God, and because he does not own minds that are divided, ensure that they should be banned profitably from these unlawful practives, in case (Heaven forbid!) the sacrament of holy baptism might not sae them, but punish them.
(...) And so it is necessary that we should hasten with all endeavor and with continuous prayers to be converted to the compassion of our Redeemer, where there is a place for all, really safe and secure. For there, neither dangeer wears down nor fear disturbs anyone who persists firmly.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 501
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