Letter 9084: Gregory to Benenatus, bishop of Tindari.
AD BENENATUM TUNDARITANUM EPISCOPUN.
Ut oratorium in honorem sanctorum Severini et Juliane
consecret.
Gregorins Benenato episcopo * Tundaritano.
Januaria, religiosa ſemina, petitoria nobis insinua-
tione suggessit , quod habetur in subditis, in massa
Furiana juris sui oralorium se pro $ua devotione
ſundasse, quod in honorem sanctorum Severini cou-
ſessoris et Julianz martyris desiderat consecrari. Et
ideo, rater cbarissime , $i in luz parochiz memo-
rata constructio jure consistit, et nullum corpus ibi-
dem cons1at humatum , percepla primitus donatione
legitima , id est in redita Þ praestantes liberos a tri-
dirigere deberemus. Quam petitionem vesiram cura-
vimus effectui mancipandum. Fraternitas ergo veslra
s0lito 8tudio perscrutari non differat , qualenus jin
locis quibus recondendz $sunt, luminaria vel Þ ali.
monia ibidem servientium ante dedicationem loci
ipsius debeant profligari, et tunc in eisdem loeis
directa sanctuaria sui cum reverentia collocentur,
ne loca Deo dicata, sj pr:rdicta provisio omissa
nunc fuerit, futuris temporibus destituta, quod ab-
Sit, servientium reperiantar obsequiis.
EPISTOLA LXXXVYIL.'
AD, GAUDIOSUM EUGUBINUM EPISCOPUM.
T adinatis Kcclesie visitationem delegat.
Gregorins- Gaudioso episcopo ® Eugubino.
butis ſiscalibus s0lidos decem &* gestisque municipa- gy Cognoscentes Þ Eeclesiam Tadinatem Ci1 $acer-
libus alligata, predictum oratorium absque missis
publicis solemniter consecrabis ; ita ut in eodem loco
nec ſuturis temporibus baptiislerium construatur, nec
presbyterum constituas cardinalem. Sed si * missas
ibi fleri suprascripla conditrix ſorte voluerit, a dile-
ctione tua presbyterum noverit postulandum, qua-
tenus nihil tale a quolibet alio sacerdote ullatenus
presumatur. Sanctuaria vero SUSCepla Sui cum reve-
reatia collocabis.
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