Letter 3007: As is your custom, you have heaped upon my longings the welcome tokens of your devotion.
Bishop Avitus to Bishop Claudius.
As is your custom, you have heaped upon my longings the welcome tokens of your devotion. Receiving your greeting, the joy of the Lord's nativity is doubled for us by the news of your good health. For this kindness, which Your Beatitude multiplies through your constant attention to us, may God in his mercy grant you many more years of life to come.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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