Quote from Letter 9.184 to Constantius bishop of Milan. July 599
The bearer of this letter, Events, deacon of your Fraternity, intimated to us among other things that you ordered him that we ought to direct to you through him the relics of Saint Paul the apostle, and also of Saints John and Pancras.
And we have taken care to bring this petition of yours into effect.Therefore, let your Fraternity not put off examining this with your usual keenness, so that in the places where that lamps and food of those servants of God in Milan had to be stored before the dedication of that place, they should be removed, and then in the same places, its shrines should be established directly with reverence, in case these places, dedicated to God, might become destitute in future times (heaven forbid!), if the aforesaid provision should now be omitted and be used for the burial of those servants of God.
The bearer of this letter, Events, deacon of your Fraternity, intimated to us among other things that you ordered him that we ought to direct to you through him the relics of Saint Paul the apostle, and also of Saints John and Pancras.
And we have taken care to bring this petition of yours into effect.Therefore, let your Fraternity not put off examining this with your usual keenness, so that in the places where that lamps and food of those servants of God in Milan had to be stored before the dedication of that place, they should be removed, and then in the same places, its shrines should be established directly with reverence, in case these places, dedicated to God, might become destitute in future times (heaven forbid!), if the aforesaid provision should now be omitted and be used for the burial of those servants of God.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, p.657.
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