Quote from Letter 9.68 to Theodelinda, queen of the Lombards. November-December 598
Therefore, we offer thanks to almighty God, who so rules your heart with his own piety that, as he has bestowed true faith on you, so too he grants that you should always work on things pleasing to him. For, most excellent daughter, you should believe that you have acquire d no small reward for the blood that had to be poured from each side. On this matter, we offer thanks to your willingness, and we pray to the compassion of our God that here and in the future he will compensate you in body and soul in return for your good deeds.
Furthermore, greeting your with paternal love, we exhort you to do what is necessary before your most excellent husband, to prevent him from rejecting the delightfulness of the Christian state.
Therefore, we offer thanks to almighty God, who so rules your heart with his own piety that, as he has bestowed true faith on you, so too he grants that you should always work on things pleasing to him. For, most excellent daughter, you should believe that you have acquire d no small reward for the blood that had to be poured from each side. On this matter, we offer thanks to your willingness, and we pray to the compassion of our God that here and in the future he will compensate you in body and soul in return for your good deeds.
Furthermore, greeting your with paternal love, we exhort you to do what is necessary before your most excellent husband, to prevent him from rejecting the delightfulness of the Christian state.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 585
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