Dedication Of A Church

Letter 3,19 - to Peter sub-deacon of Campania. january 593

"Our heart is being pricked by the holy inspiration of divinity to dedicate, with reverence of our Catholic religion, places which were once condemned for detestable sins. Since therefore we desire to consecrate, in honor of Saint Severinus, a church located next to the Merulan house in the third region, long occupied by the Arian superstition, would your Experience please send over the relics of Saint Severinus (..)."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 248.