Letter 9099: The situation you have described regarding the church of Ariminum and its entanglement with civic matters is one...

Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)Sisinnius|c. 594 AD|Pope Gregory the Great|AI-assisted
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Since the city of Aufinum has been recovered, with God's help, and since great care must be taken for its church, especially since Hospoton, the master of soldiers in Italy, has sought our help in this matter, we have taken care to send this present letter to your fraternity so that you may go there as visitor. You must conduct this visitation so that nothing of the revenues, furnishings, church equipment, or whatever else there is may be diverted to the patrimony of the church.

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Latin / Greek Original

|'tw(i)utun oivitas Auflimo Deo iuvante reeuperata*' atque a
uv>.M.'iiur, uta^oa de ocolesia ipsa habenda eollicitudo est, maxime c
Hosiov Italian* magiater militum' a nobis pro bac re Bpera88e<= din
tkvl iVHttiruitatom tuam praesentia curaTimua acripta dirigere, ut
uK>iv visitator aocedas. Quam ita te convenit exhibere, ut nihil de
coruiu, rodilu, ornatu'' ministcriiBque, vel quicquid illud est, in patrir
tiuHU) iirnoaumatur ecclesiae. Et ideo fratemitas vOBtra adaiduia ai
iiltilioiiiquo oiuBdom occloBtae ammonere festinet, ut remoto studio
HOiiMU taloin sibi praeficiendum cxpetant* sacerdotem, qui et tai
valoal ropporiri ot vonerandiB canonibus nullatenu» reapuatur. Q
iHtUH, nunt Mollemnituto decreti omnium subscriptionibus roborati
toHtiiiiiiitio litturarum ad nos sacrandus" occurrat. Commonentes
voitlrnin, ut iiuDum de alia eligt permittas'' ecclesia, ntsi' Forie inte
liiiiH, iii qua visitationts impendis offictum, nullu» ad episcopatum d
noii orotliinUH, potuorit inveniri, provisuniB ante omnia, ne ad' cui]
niiTlluni"' iiiiviio [>Gi-Honae adspirare praesumant ct tu periculum or
iiicurraH,

Revision history

  1. 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import

    Initial corpus import from Unreviewed source import.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/gregoriiipapaer00churgoog

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