Letter 13002: I am formally uniting the monastery of Crater with your monastery in Naples.
AD ADEODATUM ABBATEM.
Ilius monasterio Craterense unil.
Gregorius Adeodato abbati Neapolitano.
Quantum bene dispositaz fratruta congregationi
animus noster ex interni desiderii intentione congau-
scentibus necessario duximus prexbere consensum.
Presentis itaque precepti nostri auctoritate idem
Craterense monasterium celle vestrz constituimys
uniendum. Hoc precipue commonentes, ut locus
ipse ita cum divino solatio per vos deinceps debeat
ordinari, quatenus, dum ab hoste licuerit, deputati
permanere, perturbationis vero tempore intra urbem
' in cellam quippe propriam rovocari. Res vero omnes
eidem monasterio JY16 competentes, diligenii
volumus cura perquiri atque recolligi, easque, nt
tibi visum ſuerit, apte disponi. Nihilque quod eidem
monasterio cumpetit a quoquam detineri permiltas,
sed omnia in jus cellz, quippe jam tuz, reſormare
det, * tantum ex deslitutis et pene in desolatione RB non negligas, ut, cunctis salubri ordinatione disposi-
positis ſratribus monasterii sancti Marcellini, ut pa-
Storalis 8vllicitudinis eis Citius cura Subveniat, vebe-
menti m@rore concutitur.
Monachi siquidem monasterii, quod Crateras dici-
tur, Neapolitanz urbi e vicino ſundati, porrecta nos
pelitione informasse noscuntur locum ipsum ita pene
ſunditus servorum Dei obsequiis destitutum, ut vix
Jllic remanserint qui ipsius solummodo valeant esse
custodes. Ob quam rem lacrymabiluter supplicantes
Ipsum unire monasterium deberemus, quatenus per
zollicitudinem tuam, et deinceps succedentibus aliis,
Jocus ipse auctore Deo regulari valeat ordinatione
disponi. Sed dum huic rei fraler et coepiscopus no-
tis, que Deo placita nostra sunt auciorilate sufſulia
perpetuis maneant inconvulsa temporibus.
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