Letter 5012: Ad eundem salutatoria
Greeting to Gregory
Highest of priests, rich faculty of goodness, summit in your honor, light in my love — venerable in sacred duties, nursing child of piety, to be held in the pledge of my friendship at heart — flourishing in holy studies and faithful in the sacred law, always performing the future gifts of your soul:
You, father, I pray — calling earth, sea, and stars as witnesses — that you be willing to remember me in your holy mouth.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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rightly the glory of your race where faith is most noble:
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