6 surviving letters between Avitus of Vienne and Viventiolus, (later of Lyon), spanning 490-506 AD.
Avitus, bishop, to Viventiolus the rhetorician.
The holy festival, which we celebrated prosperously through your intercession, was crowned by the letter of...
What you have done is doubly full of devotion: by taking a brother to Lyon and sending word here, you sought out the...
Were it not for the constant obstacles that sins throw in the way of our shared hopes, I would have obeyed the...
For the firmness of a divine promise, let what you first granted stand as your "Yes, yes!
You maintain the pattern of your kindness — or rather, to speak more truly, you surpass it.