Friday 27 December 2013

Practicalities

Quote from Letter 9.17 to Maurentius, general. October 598

Your Glory should know that we have written to Anthelm, our sub-deacon, asking him to pay attention to sending us some wickerwork chairs, or, if he cannot find any ready-made, to make the artisan himself into his place to work in his home, and weave at least twenty-four really good seats. They are absolutely necessary for us, so your Glory must therefore ensure that this can be done.

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 

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