Letter 4021: Your subdeacon Vigilius has proven through experience the qualities that earned him your appointment.
To Bishop Constantius, from Ennodius.
Your subdeacon Vigilius has proven through experience the qualities that earned him your appointment. I commend him to your continued attention and trust that his service will only grow more valuable with time.
The Church needs men like him — competent, faithful, and ready to serve. May God strengthen him in his vocation. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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