Letter 4109: I am entrusting you with the visitation of the church of Capua, which is in need of the kind of pastoral oversight...
AD GAUDENT!UM EPISCOPUM.
Capuence Ecclesic risitationem injungit,
Gregorius Gaudentjo episcopo Nolano.
Quoniain * Fuscus Capuane Eecclesize episcopus,
in Romana civitale positus, de hace lyce migravit,
cur# nobis ſuit que upiversis Ecclesiis a nobis im-
penditur, ad fraternitatem tuam. prxsentia- scripta
dirigere, ut memoratze Ecclesiz visit1tor accedas ;
Sic tamen ut nibil de provectionibus clericorum , re-
ditu , ornitu , ministeriisque , vel quidquid przfati
loci es$e patunerit, Þ a quoquam prasumi paliar's,
se( omnem vigilantiam atque cautelam circa clerum
plebemque ejusdem Ecelesize exhibere te convenit,
ut in vigiliis obsequioque TJ ZZ ecclesiastico $sedulo
DB ac devote debeant deservire , quatenus ſratervitgtis
luz inslantia atque adhortatione tales $e in servitig
divino exhibeant, ut irreprehensibile corum valeat
obsequium reperiri. (Crat. dis. 61, c. 19.)
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