Letter 8004: Brother, the monastery that you wish to consecrate may be consecrated.

To Bishop Venantius. He grants that a monastery may be consecrated. Gregory to Venantius, bishop of Luna. From the report of your Fraternity we have learned what is set forth below: that within the city of Luna, in a house of your own, you have, out of your devotion, founded a monastery of the handmaids of God, which you desire to have consecrated in honor of the blessed Peter, chief of the apostles, and of the holy martyrs John and Paul, and of Hermes and Sebastian. And therefore, most dear brother, if it is established that no body has been buried there, then, a lawful donation having first been made by your Fraternity — that is, one silver chalice weighing six ounces, one silver paten weighing two pounds, two altar-cloths, one covering for the altar, ten sets of bedding, twenty head among the cattle, thirty head among the sheep, in the estate the farm called Faborianum, and Lumbricata constituted in its entirety in the territory of Luna at about the second milestone from that same city, more or less, beside the river Macra, together with two slaves, that is, Maurus and John, and only two yoke of oxen, the gifts being secured by municipal acts — you shall solemnly consecrate the oratory of the aforesaid monastery, but without public Masses, and the rest according to custom. In the month of November, in the first indiction.

AD VENANTIUM EPISCOPUM. Ut monasterium consecret concedit. Gregorius Venantio episcopo Lunensi. Fraternitatis vestre insinuatione didicimus, que habetur in subditis, intra civitaten Lunensem in do- mo te propria monasterium ancillarum Dei pro ve- Stra devotione fundasse, quod in honore beati Petri apostolorum principis , et 8anctorum martyrum Joannis et Pauli, atque Herma et'Sebastiani, deside- * Ita quinque Yatic., Norm. omnes, Colb., etc., D dict. 2, Januario Caralitano, et refertur causa 43, quibus consentit vet. Ed. Receutiores habent guid enim debet. diet, 1. Eersr. WI (AL. 4], — © Ia Vatic., Norm., elc., dissentientibus Excusis, ubi legitur, et ipsi nostis. © Male plerisque in E-xcusis, {abulam. Erat fibula aurea magni pretii, munus quod imperatores largic- bantur, wt observat Gu<s:anvilleus, « [ta restituimus ex Yatic., Norm., Anglic., Rhem., Corb., Cotb. Consentiunt vet. Edit. in quibus tamen A fllicitam anfiquam consuetudinem; quod eliam exhibet Vatic. Þ. In recent. legimus : quamvis cum 8&+ cundum nostrum insfitutum noveris nos illicitam. * lifra jdem prohbibetur epiztola 56, nnnc 5, in- canone 12, ubi vide tres sequentes canones, el extra. de sepulturis, c. Abolende, ex Innocentio II, de &- monia, C. 2. Plura videsis apud Thomassinum, part. 1, hb. 1, capp. 65, 65, 67, 68. EeisT. IV | AL. 6]. —* Hee epist. desideratur 18 Mss. Anglic., Norm., Corb. et plur. Exslat tn Riew. Reg., Colbert. vet. et quinque Valic. * TI A IS + OI I Ss Po POSE A Tn Ol. 7 Ry pe ——_ — mating! _w *— v4 >09 EPISTOLARUM LJB, VII, — INDICT. I. = EPIST. VI. ras consecrari. Et ideo, ſrater charissime, » 8i nul- A clesiz propere suscipiendi non gun, quia dum in 'um corpus ibidem conslat humatuw, data primilus 2 ſraternitale tua donatione legitima, id est calicem argenleum unum habentem uncias Sex, © palenain irgenieam habenlem libras duas , syndones duas, cooperlorium GYg 5super 2allare unumw, lectg slrala aumero decery, in #ramenlis * capila vigiali, in ſer- ramentis Capita trigiata, in cxspile ſundum Fabo- rianum, et Lumbricata in integro conslitutum in ter- ritorio Lunensi milliario ab urbe eadem plus minus Secundo, juxta © fluvium Macram, cum servis duc- bus, id est Mauro et Joanne, f et boum paria duo tantum, geslisque municipalibus alligatis, predicti monasterii oratorium absque missis publicis solem- niter consecrabis, et c@tera secundum morem. Mense Novembrio, indictione prima.