教牧守則·對話錄與書信 第 818 章

Gregory to the priest Philip. I have received the letters of your love, in which you took care to make known to me that the venerable man Andrew, a priest, has departed from this light. At his being taken away I rejoiced, because he has attained to those eternal joys which he always sought after. But concerning the solidi which were left at Jerusalem by our son the abbot Probus for the making of a hospice, this which had been resolved, that it ought to have been done, could not be altered. But I have sent to your Holiness a little blessing of fifty solidi. Do you therefore for me, as I believe you do, more earnestly pray, that Almighty God may snatch me by His hand from the sea of the present life, and grant me to rest on the shore of eternal life.

For here I suffer grievous oppressions of swords and tumults of lawsuits. But if you love me, show it by praying, so that I may feel the intercession of your prayer, and be no longer afflicted amid so many evils and disturbances. May Almighty God protect you with His hand, and grant you together with yours to attain to the heavenly goods. In the month of May, in the sixth indiction. Gregory to Deusdedit, bishop of Milan. Our brother and fellow bishop Theodore complains much that things have been done against justice and against the promise of your Holiness — which we have not judged should easily be believed.

But since we cannot leave these matters without investigation, we have committed his cause to our brother and fellow bishop Venantius to be examined, so that he may carefully come to know it and report back to us. And so let your fraternity, with haste, direct that same bishop together with the defensor of his Church to the aforesaid brother, so that he, the truth of the same business having been ascertained, may by his letters render us more certain.