Letters163 Letter CLXIII. 1133.) to John of crema, Cardinal-priest, on the same subject.
Letter CLXIII. 1133.) to John of crema, Cardinal-priest, on the same subject.
I shall never forget the love and consideration which you have condescended to show me, a man of no influence and no rank; and I wish continually and frequently pray that worthy fruits may follow from your repentance and conversion, which have been a source of joy and delight to me as well as to the Angels. Especially now does this Gallican Church of ours join me in looking for them, and I think not unseasonably. It concerns your reputation as well as mine that I do not count on you to my own confusion. Let it be then so clear to all that your zeal for truth and righteousness burns against the murderers of clerks, and against their instigators, that I may not be sorry for having made my boast of you.
Dilectionem et dignationem, qua me amplecti a vobis nullius dignitatis homuncio sensi, in aeternum non obliviscar. Poenitentiam et conversionem vestram, de qua jam angelis collaetatus sum, et condelectatus, dignos facere fructus opto jugiter, et oro frequenter. Et nunc maxime ipsos nostra ista Gallicana Ecclesia mecum exspectat, credo non intempestivos. Interest vestrae pariter et meae famae, ut non confundar in vobis. Sic ergo clareat omnibus, zelum apud vos veritatis justitiaeque fervere contra interfectores clericorum, et instigatores eorum, ut non me pigeat gloriatum fuisse de vobis.