Letter 38: The pious devotion of Senilis, an honorable man, is to be embraced.
^^4^^|l Gelasii papae ad Seneeioneni episcopum.
('onsecrari ecclesiam quamdam in honorem s. Fiti praemissa dotatione peratHiii^ p.4
ita tameUf ut donator praeter processionis aditum nihil proprii Jyris habeei.
(jlelasius papa Senecioni episcopo.
Piae mentis amplectenda devotio est, [qua Seniliils^) vir hono-
') Erat Sora urbs Latii vcr8U8 Campanium et Marsos, mmc quoque episctv
palis sub Neapolitano metropolitano.
EPISTOLAE 31 — 30. 449
rabilis in re Viviaiia sui juris fundasse perhibotur ecclesiam; quam (a. 405
in honorem sjincti Viti confessoris ejus uomiue cupit consecrari. ~ ' '^
Hanc igitur, frater carissime, si ad tuani dioecesim pertinere non
ambigis, ex more convenit dedicari, collata primitus donatione sol-
lemni, quam ministris ecclesiae destinasse se praefati muneris testa-
tur oblator: sciturus sine dubio, praeter processionis aditmn, qui
omni Christiano debetur, nihil ibidem se })roprii juris habiturum.
Data^) Xin Calendas Augusti.
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