He sent in a letter asking to be relieved for health reasons,

to give a better understanding in Rome to exactly what it is we're facing.

It reminds one of the Book of Job, where one calamity after another is visited on the church of Phoenix, and it's a terrible tragedy.

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.

They all knew it was detrimental to their health. They all knew that, yet they stayed there.

I imagine he's going to take this real hard. At least after the storm he had his health.