Letter 5109: The situation of the church of Capua continues to require outside 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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