Letter 9050: Gregorius, the former prefect, is a man who has served well in high office and who now turns toward the service of...
Although our glorious son Gregorius, the former prefect, has great assurance concerning your fraternity, so that he does not doubt that a priestly affection is bestowed upon him by you, yet because he trusts that your charity may be increased toward him by our commendation, we have taken care to exhort you by this letter, that you ought to come together for his benefit and to expend yourselves for his assistance, in whatsoever way reason shall advise. And because he desires to transact certain business before your fraternity for his own security, as he says, let him find a place with you, as becomes truly good priests, and let him know that you have compassion upon him with fatherly love, so that, when the burden of his anxiety has been relieved by the zeal of your charity, he himself may be able to prove by your works the confidence which he bears toward you, and your fraternity may be seen to have profitably expended itself upon the desires of those who ask.
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Latin / Greek Original
Licet gloriosus filius noster Grcgorius expraefecto ' magnam de fratemitate veatra.
certitudincm habeat, ut sacerdotalem sibi a Tobis impendi affectum non dubitet*, quia*'
tamen caritati vcstrae° modum nostra*' commendatioue fidit augeri, liis vos* epiatolis
pracvidimua adhortandos, ut' utilitati" ipsius concurrere atque in eiua vos iuvamen
impeDdere, quocumque ratio suaserit, debeatis''. Et quia aliqua' apud fratemitatem
vestram agcre pro sua, ut ait, cautela desiderat, locum apud voe, sicut bonos revera
saccrdotcs, inveniat et pateraa sibi compati^ dilectione vob cognoscat, quatenus, dum
Bolticitudinis ipsius cura vcstrae caritatis studio fuerit relevata', et ipse confidentiam ;
quam dc vobia gerit operibus valcat experiri et fratemitaa se vestra™ postulantium
deaideriie videatur" salubriter impendisse.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern gregory great retranslated v1.
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