Thursday 30 January 2014

On Writing Letters

Quote from Letter 9.33 to Peter, in Sicily. October 598

Knowing that paternal commendations amplify the affection of devotion, we must hasten in these letters of ours to increase the favor of your Glory, which we believe you are doing spontaneously. 
We inform you that we have entrusted the patrimony of our Church, which, as you know, is established in the districts of Syracuse and Catana and neighboring places, to Romanus, our defender and bearer of this letter, with the protection of God's grace.




Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 566

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