Download or read book Pope Gregory’s Letter-Bearers written by John R. C. Martyn and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the Lombards invading Italy, and Slavs invading Illyria, and very active slave-dealers at work, the number of men and women who reached Rome and carried a papal letter, to sort out a legal or personal problem at home, is quite surprsing, considering the slowness and the very real dangers of often long journeys in boats or on horseback. ... [T]hey came from all over the civilized world, many briefly appearing on the stage, their mission quite often not reported later on."--Page 4 of cover.