Letter 3007: As is your custom, you have heaped upon my longings the welcome tokens of your devotion.
Avitus episcopus Claudio episcopo.
Pro consuetudine desideria nostra votivis indiciis pietatis studio cumulatis, quorum
visitatione suscepta nativitatis dominicae nobis festa prosperitatis vestrae geminantur
augmento. Pro qua gratia, quam erga nos beatitudo vestra adsidua dignatione multi-
plicat, praesentiam vestram succedentium annorum numerositate divinitas propitiata
longaevet.
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