Quote from Letter 9.35 to Fantinus, defender. October 598
Priestly concern ought to ensure that those things that the desire of a pious wish suggests should be done might come into effect.
And so, we direct your experience to warn the heirs of Isidore, a man of illustrious memory, continually and strongly, that they should hasten to implement, without any fuss, what was settled concerning the hostelry [hospice], that their benefactor stipulated in his last will and testament should be built in the city of Palermo.
Otherwise, if they think that this might be neglected still longer, they might now incur a penalty imposed by law, which they would deserve by failing to implement an arrangement of this sort.
Priestly concern ought to ensure that those things that the desire of a pious wish suggests should be done might come into effect.
And so, we direct your experience to warn the heirs of Isidore, a man of illustrious memory, continually and strongly, that they should hasten to implement, without any fuss, what was settled concerning the hostelry [hospice], that their benefactor stipulated in his last will and testament should be built in the city of Palermo.
Otherwise, if they think that this might be neglected still longer, they might now incur a penalty imposed by law, which they would deserve by failing to implement an arrangement of this sort.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 567
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