12. And so, remembering the legation The legation referred to above, when Damasus requested him to present the memorial of the Christian senators to Gratian. The “again” does not refer to a previous mission to Valentinian, but to the one he himself had undertaken to the then emperor, and his similar task at present. lately entrusted to me, I call again upon your faith. I call upon your own feelings not to determine to answer according to this petition of the heathen, nor to attach to an answer of such a sort the sacrilege of your subscription. Refer to the father of your Piety, the Emperor Theodosius, whom you have been wont to consult in almost all matters of greater importance. Nothing is greater than religion, nothing more exalted than faith.