Palladius
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Save those long and elaborate defenses for those who want to bring charges.
We long for a letter from you.
When I saw Clematius, I was pleased -- and yet the pleasure was not without pain.
The one-half of my desire has God fulfilled in the interview He granted me with our fair sister, your wife. The other half He is able to accomplish; and so with the sight of your excellency I shall render my full thanks to God. And I am the more desirous of seeing you, now that I hear you have been adorned with that great ornament, the clothing ...
On "Lest anyone be a fornicator or profane person, like Esau" [Hebrews 12:16]: Scripture showed Esau as a glutton...
Anger is a fire: useful when controlled, devastating when unleashed.
For the dedication of the four altars in your church, I am sending the relics you require.
Gregory to Palladius, Bishop of Santones in Gaul (Saintes). Leuparic your presbyter, the bearer of these presents, when he came to us informed us that your Fraternity has built a church in honour of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and also of the martyrs Laurentius and Pancratius, and placed there thirteen altars, of which we learn that fou...