Letter 2055: Just as I received the letter of Your Holiness through the venerable Elogius with great joy, so I am glad to send...
Bishop Ruricius to Bishop Aprunculus — greetings.
Just as I received the letter of Your Holiness through the venerable Elogius with great joy, so I am glad to send this one back with him on his return. Through it I pay the debt of greeting owed to your apostolic authority, and I ask you to pray for us and to request especially from our common Lord that we may at last deserve to come together and see each other — so that the love which, according to the Lord's own words, has been growing cold in our hearts through absence may be rekindled by presence.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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