Dedication Of A Church

Letter 3,19 - to Peter sub-deacon of Campania. january 593

"Our heart is being pricked by the holy inspiration of divinity to dedicate, with reverence of our Catholic religion, places which were once condemned for detestable sins. Since therefore we desire to consecrate, in honor of Saint Severinus, a church located next to the Merulan house in the third region, long occupied by the Arian superstition, would your Experience please send over the relics of Saint Severinus (..)."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 248.

True Faith And Eternal Life

Letter 1,17 - to all the bishops of Italy. January 591.

"The most wicked Autharit (..) prohibited the children of the Lpmbards from being baptized into the Catholic faith (..) so it is right that your Fraternity should advice all the Lombards in your dioceses that,in view of the grim pestilence which is threatening everywhere, they should reconcile those same children of theirs, who were baptized in the Arian heresy, to the Catholic faith, so as to placate the anger of our almighty Lord.
Therefore, warn those whom you can, with whatever courage you can, bring them to the true faith, and constantly preach eternal life to them (..)."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 131.