Quote from Letter 9.78 to Azimarchus, secretary. December 589
That the bearer of this letter, our glorious son, Gregory, was late in reaching Sicily was not due to a voluntary delay; but rather, his body had been made so weak through illness that he was barely able to recover, even after many days.
You know for yourself that signs of this debility were already apparent in him.
However, he soon got well, and did not fail to go there, as he had promised to your Greatness.
That the bearer of this letter, our glorious son, Gregory, was late in reaching Sicily was not due to a voluntary delay; but rather, his body had been made so weak through illness that he was barely able to recover, even after many days.
You know for yourself that signs of this debility were already apparent in him.
However, he soon got well, and did not fail to go there, as he had promised to your Greatness.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 591
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