Letter 4041: Brothers and sisters of Hortona, I write in the spirit of the pastoral care this see owes to every community under...

Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)Unknown|c. 593 AD|Pope Gregory the Great
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AD CLERUM, ORDINEM ET PLEBEM HORTONE.,

Barbarum visilatorem delegat. Ante omnia monet ne
laicam personam in episcopum eligant,

Gregorius clero, ordini et plebi consistenti * Flor=
l0nTz. |

Vestri ® antislitis obilum cognoscentes, cure nobis
ſuit destitulze Ecelesize visitationem fratri et coepi-
SCOPO nostro © Barbaro solemniter delegare. Cui de-
dimus in mandatis 4 ut vilil de reditu, ornatu, mi-
nisteriigque a quoquam usurpari patiatur, Cujus vos
asSiduis adhortationibus convenit obedire. Hoc ta-
men 8citote, quia ei ordinandi presbytcros ac dia-
conos, $i necesse ſuerit, quos dignos ad hoe officium
invenire polverit, dedimus licentiam, * quatenus int

Samnii in ora maris Adriatici, distans a Teate x11
mi'l. in ortum. Nunc Aprutil citerioris in regno Nea-
potitano, adhuc episcopalis 8ub archiepiscopo Tea-
tino. Gussaxv. In Rhemensi et uno e Valic. legitur,
Cotronw@. |

Hortonensis, ut observavimus in fine note c ad cam-
dem epist.

© Erat Benevenlanus episcopus, vir industrius, et
$3nclo Gregorio valde probatus, quippe cui etiam

post mortem Victoris, Pagormitane Ecclesiz visita- *

tionem commisit ex epist, 16 libri xi, nunc 13lib. xi.
Ve eo quoque mentionem facit ejusdem 1'þ. epi-t. 19,
nunc 14. Putat tamen Ughe!lus, tomo VI ltalie $a-
cr:r, hanc Barbarum, quem et Barbatum dieit ap-
pellari, [uisse tertium episcopum Teatinum, cui ut-
pote viciniori Ecclesiam Urto:enzem visitandam
commendavit. Gus$axv. In Rhemensi pro Barbaro le«
gitur Joanni. Nia eliam in Vatic, D. In al. Vat c., Tu-
ron., Reg., nonien episcopi tacetur. In: aliis M>s.-
nostris desideratur hec epist, Exstal in Colb.

4d Rhem., ut nihil de provcctionibus clericorum, re-
ditu, etc.

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747 EPISTOLARUM LIB. IV. — INDICT. XW. — EPIST. XLY. 718
ecclesia$tico Ja obsequio sacerdos exquiratur, A commodo zternze $alutis as$umere, ut bt yds de

qui a venerandis canonibus nulla discrepet Tatione,
et lanto ministerio dignus valeat reperiri. Qui dum
ſrerit postnlatus, cum s0Jemnitate decreti omnium
$ulscriptionibus roborati, et visitatoris pagina pro=-
$cquente, ad nos vemat ordinandus, provi-ori ante
omnia ne cujuslibet vitze vel meriti laicam personam
przesumatlis eligere, Et non solum ille ad episcopatus
apicem nulla ratione * provehetur, verum eltiam vos
nullis intercessionibus veniam promereri posse C0-
gnoscite. Sed omnes quos ex vobis de lJaica persona
a$pirare consliterit, ab oſlicio et 3a communione alie-
nos ſaciendos procul dubio noveritis,
| EPISTOLA XLII.
AD VALENTINUM ABBATEM.

Ne monachi ſeminas in monaslerium inducant , aut eas
8ib1 commatres ſaciant.

Gregorius * Valentino abbati.

Pervenit ad nos (Grat. 18, g. 21, c. 20), quod in
monasterio tno passim Þ mulieres ascendant, et,
quod adhuc est gravius, monachos tuos mulieres $ibi
commatres facere, et ex hoc incautam cum eis com-
munionem habere. Ne ergo hac occasione humaii
generis inimicus $ua eos, quod absit, calliditate de-
cipiat, ideo hujus le precepti serie commonem1s, ul
neque mulieres in monasl[erio tuo deinceys qual:het
occasione permiltas ascendere, neque monachos tuos
eas commatres Sihi ſacere. Nain si hoc denuo ad
aures nostras quocunque modo pervenerit, sic te
severissima* noveris ultioni «ubdendum, ut emenda-
tionis tuz qualitate cxteri sine dubio corrigantur.

(Videl. nu, ep. 25.)

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