Letter 13047
Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)→Unknown|gregory great
**From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
**To:** Theodorus, Curator
**Date:** ~603 AD
**Context:** Commends Peter and his mother to the curator's care and assistance.
Peter and his mother are known to me and I commend them to you with genuine confidence in your charity. They are in need of assistance and I believe you are in a position to help them. I ask you to receive them kindly, hear what they have to tell you, and do what you can for them. People who are suffering often need more than material help — they need to know that someone of standing is willing to stand with them.
AD THEODORUM CURATOREM.
Petrum ejusque matrem amanter commendat.
Gregorius Theodoro * curatori,
Postquam sic de gloriz vestre sinceritate presu-
mimus, ut vestros vos credamus reputare qui nostri
Sunt, latori praesentium Petro, viro magnifico 1 2S8
ad promerendum bonitatis vestr# gratiam hoe solum
Suſficere polerat, indicare quia nosler est. Sed quo-
niam paterna commendatio boni filii mentem solet
semper accendere , paterna dulcedine salutantes ,
petimus ut memorato ſilio nostro, atque memorale
filie nostrz gloriosz matri ipsius, patrocinii vestri
C gratiam o>tendatis, eosque et illic positos tuitionis
vestrz remedio foveatis, et venientes ad nos ves(ris
Subsidiis adjuvelis, qualenus dum ea quz gloria
vestra ex 8e $0let impendere, nostra benignius epis-
tola interveniente, prestiterit, et ipsxam rem con-
suetam videatur laudabiliter exhibere, et nos sibi
pro sua bonilate gratiarum esse per omnia ſaciat
debitores Þ».
vel monachis ila observare convenit, ut quidquid cano-
nicus ordo vel regula zsancti Benedicti edocet, et imple-
re, et cuglodire in omnibus debeant. Nemo igitur hic
s0mniet per canonicum ordinem intelligendum cano=-
Nnicorum $latum, cum de monachis insulas Caprari#
agatur,
© In solo Vatic. B, reſormare. ; ;
Eeisr. XLVII [Al. 57]. — * Ita in Victor, In Valic,
A, legitur procuratori. In his duobus tantum Codiei-
bus reperitur hc epistola.
» In laudato Codice Valic, subditur mense Septem-
bri, indict. septima. At libro duodecimo bec epistola
continetur, qui pertinet ad indict. quintam. Unde
paiet parum habendam esse rationem note hujus
chronologice.
ths. Py
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**From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
**To:** Theodorus, Curator
**Date:** ~603 AD
**Context:** Commends Peter and his mother to the curator's care and assistance.
Peter and his mother are known to me and I commend them to you with genuine confidence in your charity. They are in need of assistance and I believe you are in a position to help them. I ask you to receive them kindly, hear what they have to tell you, and do what you can for them. People who are suffering often need more than material help — they need to know that someone of standing is willing to stand with them.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.