222. К Порфирию, епископу росскому 157

I know that your love for us is firm, unchanging, unyielding, and that no difficult circumstances can shake it; you proved it with your deeds. Therefore, we, despite our imprisonment in Kukuz, the most desolate place in our entire state, and the constant fear of an attack by the Isaurians, in all our sorrowful circumstances, write to you and bring due greetings to your reverence, being separated from you physically, but inextricably linked in soul. This gives us the greatest comfort. Even if it is very difficult to live here, then at least it is very pleasant that we are now neighbors with you and can constantly, with little distance between us, write ourselves to your reverence, and receive letters from you. Enjoying such a holiday (since I see in this a holiday, a triumph and a source of greatest pleasure for myself), we will completely forget the desert, and fears, and illnesses. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” From Cucus in 404, like the next letter to Carterius. You might be interested in: