Quote from Letter 9.151 to Romans, defender of Sicily. May 599
The bears of this letter came here from the region of Istria to their bishop, who is now living in the district of Sicily, asking to go out through Rome with our support, and we have made arrangements for them to set out from here. Let your Experience receive them, therefore, and arrange how they might reach their aforesaid bishop more quickly, in case, as they claim, other schismatics of that region arrive to persuade the bishop before they get there. For as far as they indicate, that bishop wants to come to us himself, for the sake of a union of faiths. Thus they must be supported, so that they can complete the good things that they desire with the Lord's help.
The bears of this letter came here from the region of Istria to their bishop, who is now living in the district of Sicily, asking to go out through Rome with our support, and we have made arrangements for them to set out from here. Let your Experience receive them, therefore, and arrange how they might reach their aforesaid bishop more quickly, in case, as they claim, other schismatics of that region arrive to persuade the bishop before they get there. For as far as they indicate, that bishop wants to come to us himself, for the sake of a union of faiths. Thus they must be supported, so that they can complete the good things that they desire with the Lord's help.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 636.
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