Letter CCLXXXV.
3244
Without Address.
The
hearer of this letter is
one on whom rests the care of our Church and the management of its
property—our beloved son.
Deign to grant him freedom of speech on those points
that are referred to your holiness, and attention to the expression of
his own views; so shall our Church at length recover herself, and
henceforth be released from this many-headed Hydra.
Our property is our poverty; so much so that we are ever
in search of one to relieve us of it; for the expenses of the Church
property amount to more than any profit that she derives from
it.
3244
Placed in the
episcopate.