Letter 13030: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome

To Deusdedit, Bishop of Milan. [Summary:] That he should send Theodorus, together with the Defensor, to Venantius, who is to inquire into the complaints of Theodorus. Gregory to Deusdedit, Bishop of Milan. Our brother and fellow bishop Theodorus complains greatly that, contrary to justice and to a promise [...], your Holiness has persisted, which we have not readily thought ought to be believed. But since we cannot leave these matters without inquiry, we have assigned the examination of his case to our brother and fellow bishop Venantius, so that he himself may investigate it minutely and report back to us. Therefore let your Fraternity, with all speed, direct the same bishop, together with the Defensor of his Church, to our aforesaid brother, so that we, the truth of this same business once known, may be made more certain by his own letters.

AD DEUSDEDIT MEDIOLANENSEM EPISCOPUM. Theodorum cum Deſensore ad Venantium mittal, de T heodori expostulationibus inquisiturum. Gregorius Deusdedit episcopo Mediolanensi. Fraier et coepiscopus noster Theodorus multa queritur $e contra justitiam atque promissionem © Hoc - premittitur in tribus .Vatic. et duobus D gnitudine, vel miraculis que operatus erat, neque r14- Colbert. Eersr. XXVII [Al. 35], — * Quid honor geniusque episcoporum poslulet, non semel exprimit vir san- ciissimus. Quatuor hic commemorat : studium erga Ececlesias, paternz vigilantiz curam erga filios, mo- nasleriorum s0llicitudinem, oppressorum et paupe- rum tuitionem. In epist. 26, Anthemio, easdem fere dotes episcopo altribuit, in utraque torporem desi- diamque exagitat. Aucet. Vide $similem loquendi um, Supra, epist. 25. Act. : Expostularunt cum illo... singulari dispositione accidit illum (Petrum) reprehendi, ut hi discant.,. Vi- de autem quam alienus 8it a fastu ef vane gloria. In- cipiens enim Petrus exposuil illis per ordinem, etc. I , in homil. de ferendis reprehensjonibus, exem- plum affert Moysis a socero homine barbaro re- Pprebensi. Non inflabatur, inquit, vel principatus ma- bore suſſundebatur quod tot S mren tigque subdilis corrigeretur; ed considerabat quod licet magna a 8 8igna fierent, humane@ lamen esset particeps nature , quam non rar multa latent, atque ideo cum mansuetu- dine consilium 8uscepit. Ext nunc videre aliquos, eic. UGET. ; Eersr. XXVIII [Al. 36]. — * Gratianus, contrisla- tionis su@t ſugam quaerat auzilium. Favent huic lect. Colbert. et Reg. | bd In eodem Cod. Colbert. , mense Maio, indi-t. 6. At paulo antea, ibid., et in alio Colbert., sicut el in mox laud. ., legitur mense Aprili, indict, 6. Eeisr. XXIX [Al. 28]. — * Sje antique Editiones et Mss. Codd. Male in aliis : Philippo episcopo. Gus- SANV., Eeist. XXX [| Al. 37]. — ©* In tribus Vatic. huic episl, przſigitur mense Aprili, indict. 6, EPISTOLARUM LIB, XHI. — INDICT. VI. — EPIST. XXX. tu» sanclitatis perpeli, quz nos facile non duximus A tur coli, et exsullet terra (Pzal. xcy, 11), et de ve- credenda. Sed quia hec relinquere sine inquisitione non pos8umus, fratri et coepiscopo nostro Venantio ejus causam deputavimus ventilandam , ut subliliter jpse Cognoscal , nobisque renuntiet. Tua itaque fra- ternitas eumdem episcopum cum deſensore Ecclesize $u2e $ub festinatione ad predictum ſratrem dirigat, ut nos, ejusdem negolii cognita verilate, £uis ipse epistolis certiores reddat.