Letter 4037: A monastery in your diocese is to be dedicated in honor of the blessed apostle Peter and the holy archangel Michael.
AD FORTUNATUM EPISCOPUY.
Monasterium in honorem 8«ancti Petri et sancli Michae-
lis dedicet, in quo mis8as celebrent presbyteri ibi de-
servientes ; monachis tamen proficial quidquid a fide-
libus- ojſerri conligeril.
Gregorius Fortunato episcopo Neapolitano.
Theodosius, abbas monasterii sancti Martini, pe-
titoria nohis insinuatione Suggessit, que babetur in
Subditis, in domo quondam * Martini, Þ ex ejus
volunlate, decessorem $num Andream abbatem mo-
nas{erium in quo monachi- habitare debeant constru-
xi-se, Et quia id in honorem beali Petri apostolorum
principis, et sancti archangeli Michaelis posLulat de-
mus adhortandam, quatenus ad pr:dictum locum,
cum poslulaverit, ingravanter acced:s, venerande
solemnia dedicativnis impendens. Et quoties necesse
ſuerit, a presbyteris Ecclesiez tux in loco $ancto
deservientibus, celebrentur sacriſiciza veneranda
7G6Z missarum, ita ut in eodem monasterio nec
ſraternitas tua, nec presbyteri, © preler diligentiam
discipline aliquid molestiarum inſerant ; aut $i quid
illic pro diversorum devotione commoditatis acces-
Serit, Sibi existiment vindicari, cum monachis in eo-
dem loco deservientibus debeat proſicere quidquid a
ſidelibus offerri contigerit 9.
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