Letter 13047: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome

To Theodore the curator. He affectionately commends Peter and his mother. Gregory to Theodore, curator. Since we presume thus concerning the sincerity of your Glory, that we believe you reckon as your own those who are ours, this alone could suffice for Peter, the bearer of the present letter, a magnificent man, to merit the favor of your goodness: to make known that he is ours. But since a fatherly commendation is wont always to kindle the mind of a good son, greeting you with fatherly tenderness, we ask that you extend the favor of your patronage to our aforementioned son, and to our aforementioned daughter, his glorious mother; and that you cherish them, while they are stationed there, with the remedy of your protection, and that you assist them with your supports when they come to us; so that, when your Glory shall have bestowed those things which of itself it is accustomed to bestow, our letter intervening more kindly, you may seem to render that customary service laudably, and may make us debtors to you for thanks in all things on account of your goodness.

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