So, also you, having been called by God and illumined by his light, must not be eager to inflict death as before, but rather you should seize every opportunity to summon all to life both of body and soul, and as Christ has brought you to life from the death in which you were imprisoned, so you too much seek to snatch from death not only the innocent but even all the guilty.
Pope Saint Nicholas I writing in 88 6 A.D.
