Letter 1067: If with kind disposition we meet the needs of our neighbours by showing compassion, we shall undoubtedly find the Lord mercifully inclined to our petitions. Now we have learned that Pastor, who labours under exceeding weakness of sight, having a wife and two slaves, who also had formerly been with the glorious lady Jonatha, is suffering from gre...
Book I, Letter 67
To Peter, Subdeacon [Gregory's delegate in Sicily].
Gregory to Peter.
If we meet our neighbors' needs with a compassionate spirit, we will surely find the Lord merciful toward our own prayers. We have learned that Pastor, who suffers from extreme weakness of sight and has a wife and two servants (who formerly served the distinguished lady Jonatha), is in great need.
We therefore direct you by this order to provide him without delay with three hundred modii [large measures] of wheat and the same quantity of beans for his sustenance. These may be charged to your accounts afterward. Act so that you may both earn the reward for your service and carry out our orders.
In the month of August.
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