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

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