Quote from Letter 9.191 to Anthem, deacon. July 599
Adeodatus (...) claims that he has fallen into such great poverty that he cannot pay [the rent for land and a building of] two gold coins each year as he has promised, and has sought relief over this one matter.
Therefore, let your Experience take care to investigate this. And if he is obviously as poor as he claims, we want him to be excused from half of the payment due to us, so that each year he does not pay more than one gold coin. For his old age and poverty suggest that the burden on him should be relieved, as he asks.
Adeodatus (...) claims that he has fallen into such great poverty that he cannot pay [the rent for land and a building of] two gold coins each year as he has promised, and has sought relief over this one matter.
Therefore, let your Experience take care to investigate this. And if he is obviously as poor as he claims, we want him to be excused from half of the payment due to us, so that each year he does not pay more than one gold coin. For his old age and poverty suggest that the burden on him should be relieved, as he asks.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, p.660.
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