Letter CCX. To Pope Innocent

(Circa A.D. 1 139.)

He recommends to the Pontiff the Archbishop of Rheims.

I recommend the Lord Bishop of Rheims1 to your Holiness, not merely as one of many, but as one above the rest. And I do so the more confidently as I am confident of his faithful devotion to you, his sincere love, his submissive and obedient disposition. Let him be honoured, since he is a vessel made to honour. Let him be made to feel, as much as in you lies, that he does not honour his ministry in vain, that it is not in vain that he excels in those virtues by which God is honoured and the Church adorned, which, in short, become the priest of the Lord.