Gregory to Ciridanus. The goodness of Your Glory, spread abroad by truthful report, affords us such great certainty concerning you, that we should in no wise distrust you, but rather, as to a truly wise son of our Church, we ought especially to commend a cause. And therefore we have sent—God protecting—Romanus our defender, the bearer of these presents, to the governance of the patrimony of our Church situated in the districts of Catania and Syracuse.
Greeting therefore Your Glory with fatherly love, we ask that in all things he may find the affection of your charity, and enjoy the solaces of your favour wherever it shall be necessary, so that with you present he may not feel us to be absent; so that when, with your help, he shall have wholesomely fulfilled the things enjoined on him, we too may be able to be your debtors of thanks, and blessed Peter, prince of the apostles, in whose causes you spend yourselves, may recompense you both here and in the future.