Letter 412: I have written to you before and I greet you again now.

Your letter was full of the wisdom I expected, and I was glad to receive it -- glad both for what you said about our...

I myself fell ill during the summer; Albanius during the autumn.

If I were to write at length all the causes which, up to the present time, have kept me at home, eager as I have been to set out to see your reverence, I should tell an interminable story. I say nothing of illnesses coming one upon another, hard winter weather, and press of work, for all this has been already made known to you. Now, for my sins,...

1. God, to whom the secrets of the heart of man are open, knows that it is because of my love for Christian peace that I am so deeply moved by the profane deeds of those who basely and impiously persevere in dissenting from it. He knows also that this feeling of mine is one tending towards peace, and that my desire is, not that any one should ag...

Having come to know Parthenius better than before, I love him more than before.