Constantine’s Letter about Mamre

“Victor Constantine, Greatest Augustus, to Macarius and the rest of the bishops in Palestine. [a] “A benefit, and no ordinary one, has been done us by my truly devout mother-in-law. She has told us by letter of the shameless folly of ungodly men, which has so far escaped your notice, so that the wrongdoing that was overlooked may now, through us, receive fitting correction and remedy, necessary though late. For it is surely a grave impiety that holy places should be defiled by the stain of unholy impurities. What is it, then, dearest brothers, that has escaped your discernment, but that she of whom I speak was moved by a devout sense of duty to reveal? [b]