Letter 4049: For the dedication of the four altars in your church, I am sending the relics you require.
AD PALLADIUM EPISCOPUM.
Mittit reliquias ad dedicationem quatuor affarmm in
basilica quam Palladius construxerat.
Gregorius Palladio * episcopo Santonis > Galliz.
Veniens lator praesentium Leuparicus presbyter
' vester inSinuavit nobis ſraternitatem vestram eccle-
Siam in honorem beati Petri et Pauli apostolorum,
necnon Laurentii aique Pancratii martyrum con-
struxisse, aique illic tredecim altaria © collocasse ,.
ex quibus quatuor necdum dedicala comperimus re-
mansisse, ob hoc quod suprascriptorum $anctorunr
reliquias iilic collocare Deo annuente disponitis. Ee
quia reliquias sanctorum Petri et Pauli, necnon Lau-
rentii atque Pancratii martyrum cum veneralione
priebuimus, hortamur ut eas cum reverentia $Susci-
pere , et collocare, auxiliante Domino, debeatis
provisuri ante omnia ut 4 servientibus ibidens non
debeant alimoniarum deesse suffragia ©.
provincie caput. Restituimus titulum ex Mss. Col-
bert.,. VYatic., Norm. In Yulgatis autem legitur epi-
. $C0po de Santonibus.,
© In Vatic. B et nonnvullis legitur, duodecim alta-
ria. Allare unicum intra singulas ecclesias habent
Gr#ci, ut observat Card. Bona de Rebus liturgicis,
I. 1, cap. 14, n. 3. Aliam Latinorum consuetudin-m
oslendit hzc Gregorii Mag. epist., ved et Ambrosius
epist, 20, ad Marcelli-am $sororem, n. 2, scribens
de pace a Valentiniano Catholicis data : Nec mora,.
inquit, nuntialur imperatorem jussis8e ut recederent
milites de basilica...... certatim hoc nuntiare milites
irruentes in altaria, osculis 8ignificare pacis insigne..
Rationem redvit Baronius, cur plura quandoque wdi-
ficarentur allaria : Erant, inquit, sepulcra mariyruns
allaria, et ubi condebaniur martyres, allare consueve-
ral erigi. 1d conslat ex Prudentio lib. tpi Erepavwy,
hym. 5, 4, 5; saucto Auguslino, 8erm. 5 de >aucto»
Stephano, lib. viu de Civitale, cap. 27; Gregorio
Turon., Hist. lib. v, c. 49 ; lib. 1 de Gloria marty-
rum, Cc. 35 et 91; Paulino, Poem. 4. Imo ex ejusdem
Paulin epist. 52, nove Edit., certum est illus jam-
zlate Super sepulcra et reliquias cunſes<orum altaria-
ſuisse condita. In capitular. 1 Caroli Mag., an. 8U5S,
n. 6, caveiur de altaribus ut uvn superabundent iw
ecclesii>,
* Gall., ass28stance. Suffragor per translationew ,
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