Letter 3006: The kindness you showed me when I was last in Limoges has stayed with me in the weeks since, and I wanted to...

Eufrasius to his lord the holy father, most blessed in his merits, the bishop to be revered with reverence of honor and his apostolic father, the lord bishop Ruricius. I have learned by faint rumor that your piety is wearied with illness, but I have dispatched the bearer of this letter so that you may quickly relieve my anxiety over the bitterness of the news, for the divine piety knows that I share both your sadness and your sickness with the grief, not of one who merely sympathizes, but of one who himself endures it. So may the divine mercy grant this: that for many years it may bestow upon me the vigor of your outward man and the briskness of unimpaired health, because truly I feel that I am then restored, if I shall learn the more quickly of your well-being that I long for.

VI. DOMNO SANCTO MERITIS BEATISSIMO PAPAE HONORIS CULTU SUSPICIENDO ATQVE APOSTOLICO PATRI DOMNO RURICIO EPISCOPO EUFRASIUS. Taediosam pietatem uestram esse tenui rumore cognoui, sed harum baiulum destinaui, ut anxietatem meam de acerbitate nuntii celeriter releuetis, quia scit diuina pietas, quod et tristitiam et infirmitatem uestram non conpatientis, sed perferentis dolore participo. sic ita concedat diuina miseratio, ut mihi per multos annos exterioris uestri uigorem et alacritatem integrae sanitatis indulgeat, quia uere tunc reparatum esse me sentio, si de sospitate uestra celerius optata cognouero.