Letter 2029: I am astonished that Your Holiness, after receiving the opinions — I should say the formal judgments — of so many...

29. Ruricius to his own Eufrasius, greetings. I am astonished that Your Holiness, after the judgments and indeed the written replies of so many and such great men, should have sought the opinion even of my ignorance. This I conjecture you have done more out of close attachment than out of necessity, lest, in a matter you hold so important to cherish with special devotion in your heart, you should seem to have neglected to seek agreement. Therefore I give thanks to Your Brotherhood, undivided from me in Christ, that you deign to presume and judge thus concerning us: that we have nothing either deceitful in the simplicity of our love or counterfeit in the purity of our truth. And so I render the obligation of like-mindedness that I owe, and concerning the matter on which you have deigned to write to me, I signify that I feel the same as our brothers do. But what needs to be done, or what seems to me ought best to be done, I have faithfully conveyed by word through your deacon, things which it would have been tedious to set forth in a letter. Pray for me.