Letter 3024: The bishop Castorius of Rimini [a port city on the Adriatic] is ill and absent from his diocese.
AD LEONTIUM EPISCOPUM.
Ut infirmo et absenle Castorio episcouo Ariminensem
Ecclesiam regat, ;
Gregorius Leontio episcopo © Urbinati.
Castorium fralrem el coepiscopum nestrum hic
meliori via crediderim instanrari posse tam deside-
ratam totque geminariis ſrustra tentatam clerj disci-
plinam, quam $i exlricentur a temporaltium rerum
-adinivnisirations2 paStores. Sic enim avaritia, Super-
bia, lites refrenarentur, canones de vita et boneslatle
clericorum exsecutioni mandarentur, residentia stabi-
liretur, lilerarum $Studium excitlaretur, uni Deo va-
caretur. Expendat lector conc. Paris. vi, EC. 29, et.
Sanctum Gregorium ibi citatum ex Pastorali, Wb. n,
C. 7. GUus<avv.
EersT. XXII. — * Hoc est, contra castZ vite pro-
05itum incoutinentiz ſrena laxaverit. lujusmodi
agitium in majoribus clericis olim dicebatur pro-
prie casus, Grzece 7-:ouz; tum quod in illius penam
Vaticinus D, omitlitur ordinari. Et infra ubi legi-
mus, Ccnjus prorisio imnleresl, legitur lantum cus
interes!. Ita quoque in Corb.
Eeist. XXIV. — * la omnibus Norm., Colbert., et
Shu ti* — co _ l
—_ SANCTI GREGORIN MAGN! 624
8yuam Ecclesiam non valet remeare, propterea, eo
a\bsente, Ecclesiz ipsius ſraternitati tuz operam pro-
ridimns vi>itationis delegandam; admonentes chari-
later fuam ut-ila elficaciter omnes utititates ejus
#xerceal, qualenus tui praevntia proprium $e absen-
tem habere n- n Sentiat 8acerdotem. Quidquid autem
ti visum ſuerit pro utlilitat:bus ejusdem Ecclesize
ordinare, habebis modis omnibus ex nosira permis-
Sione licentiam. Reditus vero vel ornamenta, mi-
ni«ieriaque ipsins, Þ s0llicitudinis tuz intujlus et cura
conservet. Ft © przter ordinationes clericorum, ex-
tera <©mnia in priedicta Ecclesia tanquam 4 cardina-
lem et proprium te volumus agere $acerdotem. (CF.
Joon, Diac. |. w, c. 32. Vide 8up. ep. 9, inf. ep. 25,
lib. v, ep. 34.)
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