Adeodatus
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Who could forget your affection and not be accounted inhuman?
I should have replied to your letter long ago, and the delay weighs on me.
My wishes have been fulfilled through your efforts, and I write to acknowledge both the result and the agent.
Bitter illness has laid me low, and from this bed I write to you with what strength remains.
How much your friendship has meant to me, only God fully knows — and perhaps you have some inkling.
The dispensation of heaven arranges our affairs with a wisdom we rarely appreciate at the time.
The wrongdoing of the guilty provides a ruler with the opportunity for glory -- without occasions for fault,...
Gregory to Adeodatus, Primate bishop of the province of Numidia. After what manner the charity of affection has bound your Fraternity to usward the tenour of your letters has evidently shown; and they have afforded us great matter of rejoicing, in that we have found them to be composed in a spirit of loving-kindness, and to glow with affection w...
I am ashamed, my daughter, that you have waited so long for the relics you requested.
The temporal things that occupy most people's attention — wealth, status, the good opinion of the powerful, the...
Until a bishop is ordained for Naples, I am granting your monastery oversight and management of the property in...
Before you entered the monastery, you made a donation — by word only, without written documentation.
I am formally uniting the monastery of Crater with your monastery in Naples.