Anthemius
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I am directing you to arrange payment of the stipends specified: to the handmaids of God in question, to the...
We charged you on your departure, and remember to have afterwards enjoined on you by letter, to take care of the poor, and, if you should find any in those parts to be in want, to inform me by letter: and you have been at pains to do this with regard to very few. Now, I desire that, as soon as you have received this present order, you offer to P...
John, our brother and fellow bishop, in a schedule sent to us by his cleric Justus, has among many other things intimated to us as follows: that some monks of the diocese of Surrentum transmigrate from monastery to monastery as they please, and depart from the rule of their own abbot out of desire for a worldly life; nay even (what is known to ...
Even as, through the ordering of God as it has pleased Him, we have received the place of government, so ought we to be solicitous for the souls committed to us. Now we find that in the Eumorphian island , in which, as is well known, there is an oratory of the blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, a large number of men with their wives from var...
You are to pay to Palatina thirty solidi [gold coins] per year for her sustenance.
Those whom our Redeemer vouchsafes to convert to himself from Judaical perdition we ought, with reasonable moderation, to assist; lest (as God forbid should be the case) they should suffer from lack of food. Accordingly we charge you, under the authority of this order, not to neglect to give money every year to the children of Justa, who is of t...
I am establishing an annual payment of three solidi to each Jew who converts to the Christian faith in your area.
Gregory to Anthemius, our Neapolitan Sub-deacon. How great is our grief, and how great the affliction of our heart, from what has taken place in the regions of Campania we cannot express; but you may yourself gather it from the greatness of the calamity. With regard to this state of things, we send your Experience by the magnificent Stephen, bea...
The estate of Massa Veneris belongs rightfully to the monastery of St.
Money was provided for the construction of a fort [the defense of Italian towns against the Lombards was a constant...
The late Bishop Importunus of Atella has died, and two things need attention.
The matter I am writing about requires your immediate attention.
Charges have been made against a man named Ilatus.
The way the case of the deacon John was handled — specifically regarding the failure to properly examine the charges...
I need you to summon Benenatus of Miseno along with all those who have brought accusations against him, and anyone...
The matter I am writing about requires your immediate personal attention.
A young man has received the monastic habit at Misenum [a town near Naples] after being brought there from Sicily.
I must return once more to the matter of Bishop Paschasius of Naples, whose neglect of his pastoral duties has...
I need you to locate Adeodatus, who bears this letter, and to look into the matter of a structure he has built on...
Gregory to Anthemius, Subdeacon of Campania. After he who had been elected to the episcopate of the city of Surrentum had appeared to us to be unfit, they elected Amandus, presbyter of the oratory of Saint Severinus, which is in the Lucullan camp. Wherefore we enjoin on your Experience, laying aside excuses, to take care to send the said presbyt...
I am returning to the matter of the young man from Sicily who received the monastic habit at Misenum.
I am directing you to ensure that the agents and administrators of the Roman church do not trouble or disturb...
Donatus, who carries this letter to you, is a man known to us and deserving of your assistance.
Gregory to Anthemius, subdeacon [papal agent managing Church estates in Campania].
Gregory to Anthemius, subdeacon [a papal administrative officer].
Gregory to Anthemius, Subdeacon of Campania. It has reached our ears that our brother and fellow bishop Paschasius is so idle and negligent in all ways that he is in no respect recognised as bishop; and that so neither his own Church, nor the monasteries, nor any, whether the sons of the Church , or the oppressed poor, are conscious of any earn...
Gregory to Anthemius, Subdeacon of Campania. As often as we hear things of our brethren and fellow bishops that show them to be to blame and cause us sadness, necessity compels us in no slight degree to take thought for their amendment. Seeing, then, that it has been reported to us that the bishops of Campania are so negligent that, unmindful of...
I am not satisfied with the response — or rather, the lack of response — from Bishop Paschasius on the matter I...