Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Comfort and Encouragement

Quote from Letter to Romanus, defender of Sicily. November 598

And so, we order your Experience with this authority not to fail to comfort and support her [the abbess Thecla], as far as reason allows. But you should be keen also to encourage the magnificent gentleman mentioned above [Alexander], so that he might cease from all contention, and be examining the matter might come to a peaceful resolution of this case.


Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 578

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