Letter 1015: The church of Populonia has been left destitute of priestly ministry — there is no one there to give penance to the...
AD BALBINUM EPISCOPUM ROSELLANUM,
Ut Populonensem Ecclegiam visitet, ac preabyteros
diaconosque ordinel, precipit.
Gregorius Balbino episcopo * Rosellang.
Pervenit ad nos quod Þ Populonensis Eeclesia ita
- Sit $acerdotis officio destituta, © ut $@QJ nec penis
- tentia decedentibus ibidem, nec baptisma possit
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pr:rstari inſantibus. Hujus igitur lam piz rei tamque
necessarize mole permoti, jubemus dilectiani tux, ut,
hujus praceptionis auctorilate cCommonilus, memo-
auri, ſormarum, riparum, dispositionum, matrone
rum, morum, horreorum, thesaurorum, Palatiuus.
Comitum originem reſert Spartianus ad Adrianum
imper., qui cum Senatum in aulam $wam transtulis-
Set, receplis $enatorun oplimatibus 1n amicorum
cobortem, ita domesiicum quemdam $senatum has
bere cepit, qui cemilatus Ce8aris appellatus es, et
Senatores ipsl, comites. Eorum autem consiliis atque
ope in bello et pace Augusli utebantur :; inde ſrequens
ille comitum numerus, de quibus Supra, later quos
eliam idem Sparliaaus in Adriano numerat comilem
Sparthariorum , quem Greci TpwrooraIapay Nuns
cupant, custoduw corporis regli prefectum. GUSSANY.
© Palatinos hic intelligimus inferioris ordinis comm
les, qui a comitibus priwi ordivis in provincias dirt
gi svlebant. Ne wirisque tilulus est in utroque Codi-
ce. De illis scholiastes Juliani Ante. essoris, cap. 82,
Palutini dicuntur qui pertinent ad comilem rerum pris
valarum , vel ad camitem gacrarum largiltionum. Hou
rum etiam Palativorum mewinit Gregurius M., lib.
10, ep. 9, 26, 52, et lib. xi, epish. 20. Sidonius,
lib. 1v, epist. 24. - -
Eexsr. XIV. — * Hie poslea ob gravia crimina des
positus est, ex Ep. 6. lib. u. |
Eeist, XY. — * Roselle. vel Rugella, urbs olim
Etrurizz episcopalis, eversa pridem, cujus rudera
koiie Rosclie vulgo Gicla , duabys Circiter williarh
bus a Ko-euo civiiale eplscopali dislans, Senas ver-
SUS. GUSSANVY.
Eiruriz, ubi hodie Populonia dewruite, in ora wart
EPISTOLARUM LIN. LE — INDICT. IX. — EPIST. XVII.
ralze Ecelesiz 4 visitator accedas, ut unum © cardi- A alind quod per seientiam perpetrator. Et nos $i qui-
nalem illic presbyterum, et duos debeas diacoues
ordinare. In parochiis vero pr:efat;ie Eccle>iaz tres
similiter presÞyieros, quos lamen-dignos ad tale of-
ficium vYeneralione vitre et morum gravitate pratvi-
deris, et quibus in nullo obvient conslitula canonicze
discipline, ut Sanclz cum digna cautela pravidealur
Ecclesiz.
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