And so, let your Excellency agree to apply yourself willingly to these demands of ours, in such a way that saint Peter, the prince of the apostles, to whom the power of binding and releasing was granted by our Lord Jesus Christ, may allow your Excellency to rejoice here over your offspring and after many years have run their course, may have found guiltless of any evil before the sight of the eternal judge.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 404
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