Letter 7024: Four Christians are currently in Jewish servitude in Gaul.

To Candidus the Presbyter. That he should ransom four Christians who were being held at Narbonne in the servitude of the Jews. Gregory to Candidus, our presbyter throughout the Gauls. Dominicus, the bearer of the present letter, has made known to us with tears that four of his brothers, ransomed from captivity from the Jews, are now being held at Narbonne in the servitude of those same Jews. And since it is altogether grave and detestable that Christians should be in the servitude of Jews, we exhort your Charity by the present writing that you take pains to investigate the matter with all care and diligence. And if it is truly so, and it is established for you by manifest truth that neither they themselves have the means to ransom themselves, nor does the above-mentioned bearer, let it be a concern of your zeal to ransom them, knowing that whatever you expend on them will without doubt be reckoned to your account. In the month of June, in the fifteenth indiction. (Cf. John the Deacon, book VI, chapter 44.)

AD CANDIDUM PRESBYTERUM. Clrislianos quatuor redimat, qui in Judeorum servitio Narbone detinebantur. Gregorius Candido presbytero * nostro per Gallias. Dominicus presentium portitor lacrymabiliter no- bis ianotuit quatuor fratres suos de captivitate a Ju- dzis redemptos esse, alque eos nunc Narbonz ® in eorumdem Judzorum sgervitio © detineri. Et quia 01anino grave exsecrandumque est Christianos es8e ia $ervitie Judzorum , dilectionem tvam Sseriptis prxsentibus adhortamur, ut cum omni $ublilitate el s0{licitudine $tudeat perscrutari. Et si revera ila est, atque maniſesta tibi veritate constiterit quia ne- que ipsi unde $e redimant, neque Suprascriptus por- titor habet, eos Studii tui sit redimere, sciens quia quidquid in eis dederis, tuis sine dubio rationibus imputabiture. 4 Mense Junio, indictione 45. (Cf. Joan. Diac. l. v1, n. 44.)