Quote from Letter 9.74 to Azimarchus, secretary. November-December 598
As much as learning of your disastrous shipwreck saddened us, even so you subsequent letter has relieved us, as we have learnt that your Greatness has reached Sicily safely. And we have thanked our Creator, who protected you with his accustomed piety, and freed you from the danger of the see.
Therefore, it is necessary that you should always have before your eyes in all your activities the compassion of God, which you see so often conferred on you, so that His grace may be increased in you and save you from internal dangers just as he saved you from external ones.
As much as learning of your disastrous shipwreck saddened us, even so you subsequent letter has relieved us, as we have learnt that your Greatness has reached Sicily safely. And we have thanked our Creator, who protected you with his accustomed piety, and freed you from the danger of the see.
Therefore, it is necessary that you should always have before your eyes in all your activities the compassion of God, which you see so often conferred on you, so that His grace may be increased in you and save you from internal dangers just as he saved you from external ones.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 588
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