Quote from Letter 9.134 to Theodore, curator. April 599
(W)e salute you with paternal affection, and ask that you deign to bestow your protection to those bearing this letter, whom the most glorious general, Maurentius, sent over to deal with this request.
Thus, with your patronage, they should not need to suffer any unreasonable delay or trouble there, but whatever is appropriate let the aforesaid most glorious man receive it without difficulty, through the assistance of your Glory, so that he himself might be more devoted to his duty to you, and we might offer thanks for this, as it deserves.
(W)e salute you with paternal affection, and ask that you deign to bestow your protection to those bearing this letter, whom the most glorious general, Maurentius, sent over to deal with this request.
Thus, with your patronage, they should not need to suffer any unreasonable delay or trouble there, but whatever is appropriate let the aforesaid most glorious man receive it without difficulty, through the assistance of your Glory, so that he himself might be more devoted to his duty to you, and we might offer thanks for this, as it deserves.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 621.
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