Quote from Letter 9.152 to Andrew, a scholastic. May 599
The well-known quality of the devotion that you revealed long ago to Saint Peter, the prince of the apostles, shows what credence we ought to place in the sincerity of your Glory. Although we are confident that you are supporting his causes very readily, yet it is not contrary to your interest if we demand in this extensive letter of ours those things that you are doing in your own accord.
And for that reason, we greet you with the affection of fatherly love, and ask that, since we have sent the bearer of this letter, our notary Castor, to your area, on pressing business, your Goodness should assist him in all things and cooperate with him with your advice wherever it proves necessary, so that he can rely on the support of your Christianity and can be found alert and well suited to the fulfillment of his responsibilities.
The well-known quality of the devotion that you revealed long ago to Saint Peter, the prince of the apostles, shows what credence we ought to place in the sincerity of your Glory. Although we are confident that you are supporting his causes very readily, yet it is not contrary to your interest if we demand in this extensive letter of ours those things that you are doing in your own accord.
And for that reason, we greet you with the affection of fatherly love, and ask that, since we have sent the bearer of this letter, our notary Castor, to your area, on pressing business, your Goodness should assist him in all things and cooperate with him with your advice wherever it proves necessary, so that he can rely on the support of your Christianity and can be found alert and well suited to the fulfillment of his responsibilities.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 637.
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