Quote from Letter 9.36 to Anthelm, sub-deacon. October 598
Theodora, the widow of the defender Sabinus, has sent her servant here, and has complained that she ha been deceived by her son and by a certain Aligernus, whose daughter the same son of hers had taken in marriage. At the time of the wedding, she was made to leave the title of all her goods to this same son, but now she says that they greatly despise and slight her, so much so that they have taken all her proper and she has nothing left on which she can life. She also asserts that she endures such great adversity from them as well, that they do not allow a slave owned by her to serve her to to comfort her in any way.
If that is how things are, it is all too serious and ungodly. And so, with the contents of this authority, we order you to take pains to learn the truth, and if you find it to be so, be quick to apply the protection of the Church and to assist her to a reasonable extent in all things.
Theodora, the widow of the defender Sabinus, has sent her servant here, and has complained that she ha been deceived by her son and by a certain Aligernus, whose daughter the same son of hers had taken in marriage. At the time of the wedding, she was made to leave the title of all her goods to this same son, but now she says that they greatly despise and slight her, so much so that they have taken all her proper and she has nothing left on which she can life. She also asserts that she endures such great adversity from them as well, that they do not allow a slave owned by her to serve her to to comfort her in any way.
If that is how things are, it is all too serious and ungodly. And so, with the contents of this authority, we order you to take pains to learn the truth, and if you find it to be so, be quick to apply the protection of the Church and to assist her to a reasonable extent in all things.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 567
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