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It is in vain that you labor to apologize in your long silence, my most venerable and magnificent lord, citing, among other things, the rare occasions for sending letters. Whether you write or remain silent, we are always confident in your love. You showed it so clearly that the whole city knows you as our ardent and passionate supporter. With all this, of course, it would be very desirable for us to constantly receive letters from your honorability with news about your health. You yourself write that knowing about our health is the greatest consolation for you in separation from us (and you know how much this means for a sincerely loving person, because you yourself know how to love sincerely). So it’s definitely dear to us too. Try, if you please, to satisfy our desire, especially since, given our life in such a wilderness, this would bring us a lot of consolation. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” Between 404 and 407. No more than this can be said about the time of writing the next letter to Bishop Kyriakou. You might be interested in: