Gregory to Martin, bishop in Corsica. It behoves us to lend a benevolent ear to those who ask just things, so that both the petitioners may find the remedies they hope for, and the Church may not lack a shepherd's solicitude. And since the Church of Tanate, in which your Fraternity was formerly adorned with priestly honour, has, through the deeds of sinners, been so occupied and destroyed by the ferocity of the enemy that no hope of returning thither has remained—in the Church of Saona, which has now for a long time been destitute of the aid of a pontiff, we by this authority appoint you, according to the manner of your petition, without doubt its cardinal priest.
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Therefore with vigilant zeal and with the love of God, according to the precepts of the canons, dispose and order all things, so that both your Fraternity may rejoice to have obtained its desires, and the Church of God may be filled with mutual joy at having received you as its cardinal pontiff. (Compare John the Deacon, Book III, chapter 15.)