Letter 3007: As is your custom, you have heaped upon my longings the welcome tokens of your devotion.
Bishop Avitus to Bishop Claudius.
As is your custom, you have heaped up our longings with the votive tokens of your dutiful devotion; and upon receiving your greeting, the feast of the Lord's nativity is doubled for us by the increase of your prosperity. For this favor, which Your Beatitude multiplies toward us with unceasing graciousness, may God, made gracious, prolong your presence among us through a multitude of years yet to come.
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Latin / Greek Original
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.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern avitus vienne reverified v1.
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