Letter 38: The pious devotion of Senilis, an honorable man, is to be embraced.

Pope Gelasius I to Senecio, Bishop (495). The pious devotion of Senilis, an honorable man, is to be embraced. He desires to consecrate a church in honor of St. Vitus, provided a proper endowment is first established. Gelasius grants permission for the consecration on condition that the donor retains no proprietary rights beyond access for the procession; in all other respects the church is to belong to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese.

^^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.