Letter 5024: It has come to my attention that the priest Speciosus has been resisting his bishop, and that he may seek — or has...
AD ROMANUM EXARCHUM.
Ne Speciosum presbyterum episcepo 810 resistenlem
luealur, neque palrocinelur sanctimonialibus ud s@-
culum reversis.
Gregorius *® Romano exarcho ltaliz.
Apud excellentiam vestrain pravorum audacia cor-
replionis debet aculeos magis quam deſensionis jn-
venire 80laltium. Nam S$alis grave est $i illic habere
pravam contingat actionem refgium, unde discipline
decet prodire censurain. Perveuit itaque ad nvs Spe-
ciosum quemdam presbyterum, qui causa poscente
in monaslerium a Joanue fraitre et coepiscopo nostro
C fuerat depulatus, contra Sul pasLoris exinde volunta-
tem exiisse, Þ et, ecclesiaslice conslitutionis vie
gore despecto, ante dicto episcopo, vestra ſretum
luitione, resislere. Quod quia excellentiz vestra $ine
dubio pulsat invidiain, necesse est ut ab ejus vos,
habita discrelione, debeatis tuitione suspendere, n&
$i Nominis vestri occasione pastori $u0 inobediens vel
contumax ſuerit ad tempus, et vesiros contra vos
judices deſensare, atque excelleniiam vestram hac ex
re cogatur offendere, et nos pariter de vestra discor-
dia contristare.
Comperimus przxterea, quod dici nefas est, quas-
dam mulieres, quz nunc usque. in religios0 alque
monachico habitu permanserunt, © suam veslem et
Suam velaluram deponere, et conjugibus, quod $ine
D gravi reſerre non possumus dolore, svciari. Sed huc
quidem 4 ut dicere vel allentare presumant, ſavoris
Ee1isT. XXIV [Al. 18]. — * De Romano lege episl.
55 lib. 1. In Editis additur Ltulo, Kesidenti Ravenud,
quod in Mss. minime repertum expunximus.
Solis Sacris Virginibus non loquitur. De 80Jemni veli
impositione ac beaedictione pro $acris virginibus,
Hieronymus ad Demetriadem de servand virgiutale:
Scio quod ad imprecationem ponlificis flumme«m virgi-
nale 8ganclum oprruit caput, Kt Ambros., exhort. ad
virgines : renit Pasche dies, in tolo orbe bapligmi 8@-
cramenta celebrantur, velantur 8acre@ virgines.
4 Excusi, «enSu quidem oplimo, ut ſacere rel atten»
lare.
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vestri patrocinio ſulciri dicuntur, quod nos credere A quidem eum exinde aliquid incongrue minuisse didi-
perversitatis ipsius acerbitas non permittit. Petimns
ergo ut in tanto vos peccalo miscere nnllatenus de-
heatis. Nam hujusmodi iniquitatem impunitam pro-
pter' Deum nullo modo patimur remanere. Unde
iterum quesumns ut excellentia vestra in talium $se
causarum deſensione non misceat, ne et Deus S$uam
deſendat injuriam, et inter nos aliorum pariat culpa
discordiam. * Mense Februnrio, indictione 13. (Cf.
Joan. Diae. |. 1n, n. 40.)
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