Letter 5051: Gregory to Peter and Providentius, bishops of Istria [the region at the head of the Adriatic, whose bishops were in...
AD PETRUM ET PROVIDENTIUM EPISCOPOS.,
Scribit de fide eis 8atisſacturum 5e, promiltitque Romam
venienlibus nullam molesliam illalui un.
Gregorius Petro et * Providentio episcopis Istrizx.
Deus, qui lztatur in unitate fidelium, et revelat
gquzrentibus veritatem , cordi vesiro, dilectissimi
fratres, aperiat quanto vos desiderio in gremio cu-
piam sanctzze univer-alis Ecclesiz contineri, et in
ejus manere unitate concordes. Quod fore non du-
bito, $i, abjecto contentionis stimulo, satisfieri vobis
veraciter de his quibus est duhietas intendatis. Re-
meantis autem Castorii notarii mei relatione edo-
ctus Sum ſraterai:atem vestram ad me h:bere desi-
derium veniendi, si promissum fuerit quia nullam
molestiam sustinebit, Hoc ego cognoscens ct opto,
el 8uccensus ardore charitaiis invito, ut ad me ve-
niendi debeatis laborem assumere, quatenus pariter
conſerentes, quz vera et Redemptori nostro sunt
placita, et communiter loquamur, et modis omnibus
teneamus. J7Y9 Ego vero, divine proteciionis gra-
tia suffragante, satisfacere vobis de quibus dubitatis
Rhem., etc., cum in Editis legatur : Quia eos $0=
lummodo invenio, quos ex ejusdem partiibus Codices,
quos jam monasteriis dedi, excerpsi. (Quid intricatius
et obscurius ?
Eerisr. L [Af. 48]. — * In muliis et melioribus
Codicibus omittitur de Regio.
Vul.ani domus et Vulcania nomine tellus.
Eeisr., Li | Al. 44]. — * Sic 2p; elatur hic
episcopus in omnibus Vatic., Anglic., Norim., Tel-
mentia quod ita vobis satisſactio mea interius inha-
rebit, ut nihil charitati vesire de c#tero possit au-
biguum remanere. Nam illa quz $anciis8ima qua-
tuor synodi Sapuerunt atque delinierunt, Siculti
prxdecessor noster sanclissimus Leo papa, ita et nos
$apimus, Sequimur, ac tenemus, nec ab earum ide
aliquo modo dissentimus. Sed quia plus persona
presens quam epistola $alisſacit, hortor, dilelissimi
ſraires, ut ad me venire, sicut przxſatus sum, debea-
tis, dummodo ratione percepla a concordia Sancl®
universalis Ecclesiz dissensio vos nulla dissociet.
Hoc tamen certa sit vestra charitas, quia - vos -et
cum afſectu quo decet suscipio, et cum gratia re-
laxabo. Nec aliquam vos vel quoscunque alios, qui
B pro hac ad me causa venire voluerint, afflictionem
vel molesliam sustinere > promitto. Sed seu ad con-
Sentienduin mihi cor vesirum misericordia divina
compunxerit, s:ve, quod absit, in ea vos durare dis-
sensione contigerit, ad propria vos remeare quando
volueritis, juxta promissionem meam Sine legsione
vel molestia relaxare curabimus, © Mense Augusto,
indictione 13. (Cf. Joan. Diac. |. , n, 37.)
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