Quote from Letter 9.126 to the ex-prefect Gregory. February-April 599
Knowing what great affection remains in the mind of your Glory towards the churches of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (...) we do not doubt that your Glory wants to assist without even being asked (...) We have ordered our sub0deacon, Sabinus, to hurry meanwhile to cut up as many as twenty beams, and hail them to the sea.
And saluting you with paternal affection, we ask that your Glory, from the possessions that you have there for rental farming, make some men offer support with their oxen in this matter.
Therefore, we trust in you so much, as we have said, that we offer thanks to you, glorious son. May you have the blessing of the princes of the apostles as your helpers in all things, in return for the love and devotion that you show to their churches.
Knowing what great affection remains in the mind of your Glory towards the churches of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (...) we do not doubt that your Glory wants to assist without even being asked (...) We have ordered our sub0deacon, Sabinus, to hurry meanwhile to cut up as many as twenty beams, and hail them to the sea.
And saluting you with paternal affection, we ask that your Glory, from the possessions that you have there for rental farming, make some men offer support with their oxen in this matter.
Therefore, we trust in you so much, as we have said, that we offer thanks to you, glorious son. May you have the blessing of the princes of the apostles as your helpers in all things, in return for the love and devotion that you show to their churches.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 617.
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