Letter 13024: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome

TO SAVINUS, SUBDEACON. That he should bring help to Bishop Proculus in restoring those things which had been neglected during his absence. Gregory to Savinus, regionary subdeacon. For what reason our venerable brother Bishop Proculus has long been absent from his Church, your experience is not unaware. Since, God being favorable, he has now returned to it, as was fitting, by the purgation of his vindication, lest perhaps through his absence the welfare of that same Church has been in any respect neglected, or anything has been withdrawn from its right, we wish you to comfort and to assist him in all things, with equity preserved, as he desires to restore or to correct these matters; so that, supported by your aid, in those things which are to be done by him he may neither endure any difficulty through the hindrance of certain persons, nor be obliged to labor any longer.

AD SAVINUM SUBDIACONUM. Proculo episcopo ea que per absentiam am fſuerant neglecia reparanii opem ſerat. Gregorius Savino subdiacono regionario. Quare venerabilis ſrater noster ® Proculus episco- pus ab Ecdlesia sua diu abſuerit experienlia tua non ignorat. Ad quam quoniam Deo propitio bhabita nune, ut oportuit, satisſactionis. purgatione reversus est, ne ſorte per ejus absentiam in aliquo Ecclesiz ipsius it neglecla utilitas, aut aliqua sint de ejus jure subtracta, reparare ea vel corrigere cupienti illi in omnibus equitate servata s0latiari te volamus atque concurrere, ut, tua opitulatione suffultus, in his que ab eo agenda sunt, nec difficultatem aliquam quo- rumndam impedimento suslineat, ngc diutius debeat laborare.