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Letter CCLXII. To the Same, for the Monks of S. Marie-suR-MEUSE.2

I cannot but again support the Bishop of Rheims in his petition, especially since it is one which deserves to be1 listened to. I pray, therefore, and earnestly supplicate on behalf of the poor monks of S. Marie-sur-Meuse, that they may be quickly set free from the oppression under which they suffer, and that by your powerful hand the injuries and accusations of the malignant may be warded off from them; of these the bearer of this letter will inform you. It is for this that these poor men have sent messengers from afar to cry to you. And what answer you should send back by them you may learn from the righteousness and poverty of these men who love you, and from the honour due to the above Bishop, who has intervened on their behalf, and who loves you not a little.

Footnotes

  1. The Cistercian codex has the heading, "On behalf of Samson, Archbishop of Rheims." But the meaning is the same, fur the Letter was written at the request of Samson, on behalf of the monks of the famous monastery of S. Mary on the Meuse, in the Diocese of Rheims, under the Benedictine Congregation of S. Vito. There is nothing about this letter in the Chronicle of S.M. sur M., Spicil. Vol. iv. ↩

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