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Your deeds are not unknown to us; on the contrary, just as positively, as if we were eyewitnesses, we know your zeal, vigilance, care, efforts and labors you have rendered in defense of the truth, and we are deeply grateful to you. Your ardent and sincere love, despite the sad life in the desert, is our greatest consolation. Having received proof of it here, we know that there it is preserved in full force and has not weakened either from the passage of time or from the distance of distance. We deeply thank you for this and earnestly ask you to continue to show the same diligence in the future. You know how large the number of churches is, for the benefit of which you are now facing a feat, and how high in the future the importance of this great work. In this conviction, my most honest and reverent master, please do not weaken your former zeal. With short-term labors, you will thus prepare for yourself immortal rewards in heaven for these good deeds. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” Gaudentius was elected to the see of the Brescia (Brixianae) church by a council of northern Italian bishops presided over by St. Ambrose of Milan around 387, in absentia, during his trip to the east, from where he was immediately summoned as a result. He brought with him from Caesarea Cappadocia to Brescia part of the relics of St. forty martyrs. Subsequently, he traveled to Constantinople on the business of St. John Chrysostom and is also known as a writer. You might be interested in: