Letter 10045: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
AD ECCLESIUM CLUSINUM EPISCOPUM.
De infirmitale condolet. Gratulatur de prudenti episco=
pi electione. Equum millit. Baptizalos consignaturus
. ad Ecclesias accedal.
Gregorius ®* Ecclesio episcopo Clusino,
Scripta ſraternitatis veslr# suscipientes, contrista- .
ti sumus quod vos per ea et graviler infirmatos, et
adhuc debiles esse cognovimus. Et licet sanclitatem
Eeisr. XLIV. — * Fesulz, vulgo Fiesoli rovinato.
urbs olim Tusciz clara. Nunc urbecu'a ; adbuc tamen
episcopalis sub azchiepiscopo Florentino, a Floreutia
duobus mill. in boream distlans. Gussanv.
SANCTI GREGORII MAGNI
vestram videndi desiderium haberemus, bene tamen A Quamvis glorios0 Apollonio, magistro militum,
ſecistis isto vos illic tempore conlinere, ne venientes
- hue Þ de zgritudinis vestre molesiia recidivam nobis
iris (itiam faceretis.
De episcopatu antem lauda\imus, quod personam
nou temere eleg:-tis, sed cauti, sicut decuit, exSli-
listis. Venientibus enim vobis, si Deo placuerit, com-
muni deliberatione tractabimus, et quod utile visum
ſuerit, Deo anxiliante, disponemus.
Unum autem caballum vobis qualem invenire po0-
tuimus, de benedictione sancti Petri transmisimus, ut
habeatis cum quo post infirmitatem vectari possitis.
De causi+ vero pro quibus latores presentium huc
venerunt quid actuin Sit, ipsorum omnia renuntiatio-
ne cognoscetis. Przterea Ecclesiis ad quas s8ine la-
communi filio, paternam vos pietatem noverimugs
impeudere, quia tamen eumdem dilectionis modum,
quem Circa eum $acerdoetaliter exhibetis , nosiris
credidii apicibus augmentandum, idcirco eum ſrater-
nitati vestre his epistolis commendanus, borianles
ut paternam in vobis, sicut decet, consolationem in-
veulat, et $0laliis veslris, 8icut uSus exegeril, Comi-
tante ju>titia, potiatur, quatenus dum vestram erga
8 amplius fuerit dilectionem expertus, et ipse quod
de vobis conlidit agnoscat, et nostram sentiat epi-
stvlam proſuisse. |
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