6 surviving letters between Dominicus and Pope Gregory the Great, spanning c. 591–602.
Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. We have received with the utmost gratification the letters of your Fraternity, which have reached us somewhat late by the hands of Donatus and Quodvultdeus, our most reverend brethren and fellow bishops, and also Victor the deacon with Agilegius the notary. And though we thought that we had suffered loss...
Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. Prosper your delegate (responsalis), the bearer of these presents, has been with us, and after other expressions of your charity handed us your second letters with an allegation of the imperial commands, and a paper giving an account of the synod that has been held among you. Having read all, we rejoiced...
Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. Though we believe that your Fraternity gives attention with pastoral vigilance to the care of monasteries, yet we think it necessary to inform you of what we have learned about a monastery in the African province. Now the abbot Cumquodeus, the bearer of these presents, complaints that, if at any time he ...
Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. The letter of your Holiness, which we received at the hands of the bearer of these presents, so expressed priestly moderation as to soothe us, in a manner, with the bodily presence of its author. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted...
We have already learned what great pestilence has invaded the African parts; and, inasmuch as neither is Italy free from such affliction, doubled are the groans of our sorrows. But amid these evils and other innumerable calamities our heart, dearest brother, would fail from desperate distress, had not the Lord's voice fortified our weakness befo...
How abundant is the charity of your heart you show by its interpreter — your tongue, while so seasoning the words of your epistles with its sweetness that all you write is pleasant and delightful. Hence it comes that we embrace your Fraternity in the arms of love, though unable to do so in the body. For it is the office of charity to supply to s...