716:1
Gregorius Mariniano episcopo Ravennae. Multa nos, frater charissime, cogit infirmitas, ex quibug si sani essemus, jure repreheusibiles videremur. Sed quia aliter subsistere in hoc fragili corpore positi non valemus, nisi ejus languoribus serviamus, erubescere quod imponit necessitas non debemus. Et ideo quoniam a eruptionem sanguinis patientibus jejunia medici omnino dicunt esse contraria, his fraternitatem tuam b hortamur affatibus, ut, reducens ad animum ea quae est solita de ægritudine sustinere, jejunandi sibi laborem minime imponat. Si autem Deo miserante adeo melioratam se esse, ac virtutem suam sufficere posse cognoscit, semel aut bis in hebdomada jejunare permittimus.
Gregory to Marinianus, bishop of Ravenna. Many things, dearest brother, does infirmity compel us to do, for which, were we in health, we should rightly seem blameworthy. But since, placed in this frail body, we cannot subsist otherwise than by serving its weaknesses, we ought not to blush at what necessity imposes. And therefore, since physicians declare fasting to be altogether harmful to those who suffer from a flow of blood, we exhort your Fraternity with these words, that, recalling to mind those things you are wont to endure from illness, you should by no means lay upon yourself the labour of fasting. But if by God's mercy you know yourself to be so far improved, and your strength able to suffice, we permit you to fast once or twice a week.
額我略致拉溫納主教瑪利尼亞努斯。至親愛的弟兄啊，體弱迫使我們做許多事，若我們原是健康的，這些事就理當顯為可責備的。但因我們既置身於這脆弱的身體中，除了順從它的軟弱之外別無他法可以存活，故對必要所加諸的事，我們不應羞愧。所以，既然醫生們斷言禁食對患失血之症者全然有害，我們便以這些話勸勉你的弟兄之誼：你當回想你素常因疾病所忍受之事，切勿把禁食的勞苦加於自身。但若蒙天主憐憫，你知道自己已大有起色，體力足以支持，我們便准你每週禁食一兩次。
716:2
Sed illud te prae omnibus studere convenit, ut exasperationem sentire nullo modo debeas, ne aegritudo, quae modo levior est et quasi suspensa creditur, per exacerbationem postmodum gravius sentiatur.
But above all it befits you to take care that you should in no way suffer any aggravation, lest the sickness, which now is lighter and is thought as it were held in suspense, be afterward felt more grievously through exacerbation.
但你尤當在萬事之上留心，切勿以任何方式讓病情加劇，免得那如今較輕、彷彿被暫時抑制的疾病，日後因惡化而被更沉重地感受到。