Letter 1051: Gregory to all monks established on the island of Monte Cristo [a small island off the Tuscan coast with a monastic...
AD UNIVERSOS MONACHOS IN CHRISTI MONTE INSULA
CONSTITUTOS.
Abnormes illos monachos H orosio abbati obedire jubet.
Gregorius universis monachis * in Christi monte
insula constitutis, |
EersT. L (Al. 48). — * Sic legitur in omnibus Va-
tic., Norm., etc. In vet. Ed. ex Eumorphiana con-
flatum ect Orphiana. Tandem in recenlioribus legi-
tur Orphiaria, quam insulam esse parvam Tyrrheni
maris, non longe a Palmaria et Ponlia, Gus-anvil-
leus ait. Ex Eumorphiane situ conjicimus illam ip-
Sam esse insulam, qua? nune 8ancle Marie ivsula
dicitur. De monachis eam incolentibus ad Anthe-
mium Campanie rectorem scribitur, quod, uti et
Palmaria, Campaniz liuttori objaceret.
© Hzc lex qui cavet ve pueri ante decem et oclo
annos jn monasleriis recipiantur, de itlarum insula-
rum monasterbs tantum inteſlligitur, ut l-egenti Sta-
um patevit. line regule sanct Benedicti puerorum
Inſra hos annos admissivnem permittent} ſrustra op-
ponitur hc probibitio.
C |nsula eliamn paryva maris Tyrrheni contra Toer-
racinam, - ab ea Circiter xxxvit mill. (Gisins. Has
A Pervenit ad nos nulla vos monachicz regula: pre»
cepla cusltodire : pro qna re -compulsi 8umus pre-
sentis precepti portitorem Horosium abbatem ad
vos dirigere, ut omnia acta vesira 6ubliliter exqui-
rens, quzque ei recta ſuerint visa disponal, el nobis
quze ab eo ordinata ſuerint renuntiet. Proinde ad-
monemus ut omnem ei obedientiam prebealis; et
quidquid disposuerit, velut a me dispositum, cum
debita reverentia cuslodite.
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