Letter 13014: Brothers and sisters of Panormus, I have appointed Barbarus as your episcopal visitor, and I am writing to require...
AD PANORMITANOS.
Barbaro episcopo visitatori obediant,
Gregorius clero , ordini et plebi consistenti Pa-
nOrMi.
Vestri antistitis obitum eognoscentes, curx nobis
ſuit destitutz Ecclesiz visitationem ſratri et co-
episcopo nostro Barbaro solemniter delegare. 1 298
Cui dedimus in mandatis ut nihil de provectionibus
clericorum , reditu, ornatu ministeriisque , a quo-
quam usvrpari patiatur. Cujus vos assSiduis adhor-
tationibus convenit obedire, et, remoto strepitu, uno
EeisT. XII | Al. 16]. — * In recentioribns Ed. le-
gitur episcopo Beneveniano. Pretulimus lectionem
vet. Excusorum, quod firmetur auctoritate Rhe-
mensis , quatuor Yatic., duorumque Colbert. et al.
In uno ex Colbert. , dissimulaio episcopi titulo ,
_ exslat solum Barbaro Carinis. Carinensis urbs ſuit olim
episcopalis apud Brutios, non longe a Regio. Existi-
mat aviem Rochus Prrrus, t0no I, pag. 461, intel-
ligendum esse de alia hujus nominis urbe in Sicilia
haud procul Panormo, ex ruinis fHyccaris oppidi
conslructa, quam lamen an ullum olim habuerit an-
tistitem, incertum $:bi esse ail. Cur autem $8anctus
Gregorius preter morem aut Beneventano aut Cari-
nensi episcopo tam longe dissito Ecclesiam Panor-
mitanam visitandam commiserit, non video, nisi
ſore quia iis in Jocis jam aliis negotiis gerendis de-
tinebatur; vel etiam quia illum virum industrium
noverat, et qui alias in eo munere preclare se ges-
Seral, ut cum ei Ecclesiam Hortorensem visidandam
commisit, Epis[. 59 lib. 11, nunc 41 lib. iy, etc. Par-
tim ex GUSSANY
tere 8acerdotem, qui et a venerandis eanonibus nulla;
diserepet ratione, et tanto ministerio dignus valeat
reperiri. Qui dum fuerit postulatus, cum $olemaitaie.
' decreti omnium $1bseriptionibus roborati, et visita--
toris pagina prosequente, ad nos veniat ordinandus :
provisuri ante omnia ne cujuslibet vitae vel meriti
laicam per-onam presumatis eligere , et non Solum.
ille ad episcopatus apicem nulla ratione promo-
vealur, verum eliam vos nullis inlercessionibus ve-
Biain promereri posse Ccognoscile, sed et omnes quos.
ex vobis de laica persona aspirasse consliterit , ab
officio et a communione alienos faciendos procul
dubio noveritis,
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