While the lord Sigismundus, your son, the patrician, sought out the most glorious prince by an office of embassy, a doubly holy opportunity provided us also an approach for rendering service to you. For when we thirsted for you with a just longing, as for a chief priest, the illustrious man Laurentius added an honour of you to our minds, indicating in his own dispatches that all the cloud which had darkened the peace of the Eastern peoples with a doubtful gloom had been wiped away by the serenity of restored peace; and that you have with the Roman pontiff that concord which it is fitting to assign to the world as to twin chiefs of the apostles.
For who, who can even be called catholic, would not rejoice at the peace of such and so great Churches, which the world awaits as a sign of religion set in heaven, in place of a twin star? Who would not deservedly delight at the return of the ailing, at the estate of the sound, when, with the other sheep saved within the folds, that one which by the fault of an erring will had wandered off is recalled amid the celestial crags, joy applauding? Guard therefore, as fathers, the discipline of the Church handed down to you even over us. Your concord has as much need of teaching as of example. What love shall we urge upon the peoples, if we know it not in our own rulers? What in the body will be able to seem firm, what totters maimed in the head?
Therefore give to those returning a pious preaching, lest anyone perish through intention. Take heed lest so fierce a beast ravage the signs it has spied out, if Rome should leap apart from the unity of your mind. But mindful of us, because if the sun set upon your dissension it is the loss of the East, confirm by a rescript, through a most faithful man, that most prosperous news of which I spoke above, to our knowledge: so that the Western Church, awaiting in your words the gift of the heavenly oracle, which it rejoices to have received through a fellow-disciple, may rejoice to have it multiplied to itself through a master.