Letter 10016: I have appointed the bishop Venerius to serve as your visitor during the current vacancy.
AD TURRITANOS ET TAURIANENSES.
Venerio episcopo visitatori obediunt, idoneuthyque ib i
eligant zacerdotem.
Gregorius * clero, ordini et plebi convistenti Tau-
rianas, Turris et Consentias.
Vestri antislitis obitum cognoscemes, ec. tt lib.
x1, episl. 59, mutalo nomine Joanni , in Vener.
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