Letter 9063: I am asking a favor. Laurentius — a man of distinction, who bears this letter — has business before Leontius that...
We recall that your Magnificence, during the time you were here in the city of Rome, learned that Bonifatius, a former accountant, had by his established testament left a certain portion of his inheritance to the hospice situated at the church of the blessed Peter, prince of the apostles. And since we said we would exercise care that a person be sent to our glorious son Leontius to render the accounts of the same, we took care that this should be fulfilled. Therefore, since Laurentius, a most distinguished man and bearer of this letter, is being sent there for this purpose, we greet your Magnificence with fatherly affection and ask that you assist him in this matter and, as we trust of you, extend your patronage to him with justice preserved, so that while he is supported by the help of your most sincere goodness, you may gain a reward before almighty God both on behalf of the widow of the late Bonifatius and on behalf of the poor, to whom, as we said, the same Bonifatius left a portion of his inheritance.
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Latin / Greek Original
.Magnitudincm vestram tempore quo" hic Jn Romana urbe fuit cognovisse'' recoli-
mu8 Bonifatium quondam numeranum' coudito teatamento" partem aliquam hereditati»
Huae xenodochio, qnod ad sanctum Petnim apostolorum principem situm est', reliquisse.
Et quoniam gerere nos Bollicitudioem diximus, ut ad gloriosum tilium nostnun Leon-
tium' persona'' pro exponeudis ratiociiiiis ipsiue mitteretur, curam, ut compleri debuisset,
habuimus. Idcirco quia Laurentius vir clarisHimus praesentium portitor ad hoc illic '
QOHcitur esse transmissuB ', magnitudinem vestram patema dilectione salutantes petlmuB,
ut ei hac inc causa coDcurrere atque vestra, sicut de vobis confidimus, salva iusHtia
impendere patrocinia debeatis, quatenus, dum sincerissimae bonitatis vestrae fuerit ope
BuffultuB, et de viduitate muUeris quondam Bonifatii et de pauperibus, quibus, sicut
diximus, isdem Bonifatius hereditatis suae partem aliquam dereliquit, mercedem apud
omnipotentem Deum'' adquiratis.
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