Letter 13084: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
AD JOANNEY. PANORMITANUM EPISCOPUN.
Pallii usum concedit.
Gregorius Joanni episcopo Panormitano.
Apostolicz sedis benevolentia provocati, ſraterni-
tati luz, quam Panormilanz Ecclesiz ® speculatoris
constatl suscepisse officium, pallii usum previdimus
concedendum, illis videlicet 1 244 temporibus, at -
runt, ipsi quoque 8uadente Izlitia Þ. ad vestra vesli-
gia venire ſestinant, qui prius illuc accedere valde
timuerant. Sed quia eorum quidam ita senectute sunt
debiles, ut laborem ſerre vix possint, quidam vero
ecclesiasticis curis vehementer implicantur, et * lator
presentium, qui primus omnium defensorum ſuit,
bene mihi ex longa as8iduilale compertus est, vita,
fide, ac moribus approbatus, hunc aptum pietalis
vestre vesligiis esse judicavi. Unde eum, auclore
. Deo, diaconum feci, et 8ub celerilate transmiltere
studui, qui cuncta que in his partibus aguntur, inven-
to opportuno tempore, valeat clementiz veslrz 8ug-
gerefe. 4 Cui rogo ut serenilas vestra pias aures in-
clinare dignetur, ut tanto nobis valeat celerius mise-
que eo ordioe, ut alios quoque insulz Sicilize sacer- B 771 quanto afflictionem nostram verius ex ejus re-
doltes vel decessores tuos us0s esse non ambigis.
Mud autem admonemus, ut apostolice sedis reve-
rentia nullius presumptione turbetur. Tunc enim
slatus membrorum integer manet, > si caput fidei
nulla pulset injuria, et © canonum maneat incolumis
atque intemerala semper aucloritas, ut sicut a nobis
hujuscemodi decoris usum ad sacerdotalis officii ho-
norem accepisse te gaudes, ita etiam morum atque
actuum probitate susceptum adornare contendas of=
ficium. Sic elenim alterno eris invicem decore con-
spicuus, i ad hujuscemodi corporis habitum mentis
quoque tuz bona concordent.
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