Quote from Letter 9.158 to Desiderius, bishop. May-June 599
We know that Pancras, the bearer of this letter and a deacon, as he asserts, by presenting himself at the thresholds of the apostles, hoped that we should commend him particularly to your Fraternity. He also intimated to us that he had served your church in a priestly office.
Therefore, moved by the inspiration of divine remorse, he seeks the grace of conversion to the monastic life, and there he desires to remain in the same habit with which he undertook this office, having reminded us that he had already been made deacon of that monetary.
He cannot bear to be torn from serving in that position for any reason.
We know that Pancras, the bearer of this letter and a deacon, as he asserts, by presenting himself at the thresholds of the apostles, hoped that we should commend him particularly to your Fraternity. He also intimated to us that he had served your church in a priestly office.
Therefore, moved by the inspiration of divine remorse, he seeks the grace of conversion to the monastic life, and there he desires to remain in the same habit with which he undertook this office, having reminded us that he had already been made deacon of that monetary.
He cannot bear to be torn from serving in that position for any reason.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 643.
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