Letter 11051: Word has come of an imminent barbarian threat against Sicily.
AD UNIVERSOS SICILIE EPISCOP0S.
Adversus imminentem hostium invasionem binas
hebdomadam litanias indicant, et fideles a s@culari
perversilale dehortentur. |
Gregorius universis episcopis Sicilie.
Eeisr. XLIX [Al. 43]. — * In Vatic. A, qui pene
s0lus cum Remig. et Victor. epistolam hanc exhi-
bet, et restiarium.
Eersr. L [Al. 44]. — * Apud Gratianum, loco
laudato, nec quondam.
© De ea Supra. Vide novell. Jystiniani 123, ec. 40,
que videlur posse explicari de matrimonio rato, quod
tunc non venit in mentem 8ancti Gregorii. Nunc
aem matrimonium ratum $0lvitur religionis in-
benignus et milis est, si nos a malis nostris emen-
datos sua viderit mandata diligere, et hic nos potens
est ab hosle deſendere, et in futuro zterna nobis
gaudia preparare. (Cf, Joan. Diac. |. 1v, c. 33.)
EPISTOLA LII.!
AD DONUM MESSANENSEM EPISCOPUM,
1d compleatur quod Placidum inter et Messanensis
Ecclesic actores judicatum est.
Gregorius Dono episcopo Mes«anensi.
Nullus unquam contentionibus finis imponitur, $i
impleri ea que judicata fuerint differantur. Filius
itaque noster Placidus, vir magnificus, questus est
D nobis ea qua inter eum et actores Ecclesiz vestr
Dei judicio definita sunt ſraternitatem vestram nolle
complere. Quod si ita est miramur, ut dum quieti
vestrz vos deceat studere, contentionis yobis scru-
pulum reservetis. Proinde scriptis vos przsentibus
gressu, modo non ſyerit consummatum. Quid si eo-
pula precesserit nuplias, poteritne vir uxore invita
religiunem ingredi? Gussaxv. Ista novella Jaudatur
ad hunc canonem in novissima corporis juris can.
Editione; verum pro c. 40 as$ignatur c. 58, ut est
divisa novella apud Julianum.
Eeisr. Ll | Al. 4]. — * Litania a verbo Graco
Miooeua, 8upplico, 8ignificat hic 8 Fe publi-
cam. Nomen sumpsit a verbis illis Kyrie eleigon, que -
premittuntur. Hine sanctus Benedictus reg. Cc. 9,
ost hoc.... supplicatio litanie, id est Kyrie eleison. De
is ſuse in notis ad lib. Sacram, et infra in appets
dice epistolarum,
- SANCTI GREGORH MAGNL
adbortamur ut subtiliter requirere debeatis. Et £1 A natus vos ſuerit exeusare, de nostris tamen adhue
guid minus impletum eat, 8i tamen nibil est quod
juste pogsit obgistere;, sige discordia compleatur;
qualenyus * nee Supradictus magniſicus vir se quera-
luc irrationabiliter ſatigari, nec vos contra ordinis
yesLlri propogitum videamini despexisse quod juslum
est. Þ Datum mense Junii, indict. 4.
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