Letter 11049

From: Gregory the Great, Pope, in Rome To: Anthemius, subdeacon Date: ~601 AD Context: Gregory writes about a young man who was brought from Sicily to Misenum where he received the monastic habit. Gregory to Anthemius, subdeacon. A young man has received the monastic habit at Misenum [a town near Naples] after being brought there from Sicily. The matter of his status and his obligations going forward needs to be sorted out clearly. A person who has genuinely received the monastic habit is subject to monastic law and discipline. This is not altered by the fact that he received it in a different location from his place of origin. Determine what monastery he is canonically attached to and ensure that his relationship with that community is properly established. Gregory

AD ANTHEMIUM SUBDIACONUM. De puero quodam e Sicilia Misenum ducto, ubi mo- nachi habitum 8usceperat. Gregorius Anthemio 8ubdiacono Campanie. Lator prexsentium Gallus, nauclerus, oblala nobis petitione, noscitur intimasse, asserens puerum $8 quemdam de Sicilie partibus venicntem 1193 orationis gratia ad Campaniz partes perduxisse, D tyrolog. Rom., ad diem 13 Octobris. * Hec nullis in mss. invenimus, nisi quod initio libri duodecimi, ut moris est, premittitur mense Septembri (hoc enim mense incipiebat indictio), deinde subditur Gregorius Dominico, etc. EeisT. II. — * In Pratel. et nonnullis Mss., Mes- S8inati. Editi, Messenati. AL legendum Migsenati ex £0 conslat, tum quod ad Campanie partes perductus puer, illic in monaslerio, etc., tum quod ab Anthemio Campaniz rectore puerum in monasterio degentem nauclero tradi jubeat in Panormitanas partes redu- cendum. ———_—_— + culo, Jiberum 8e, nullique conditioni obnoxium publica A effectum exseculione perduci, ut nihil inter parites ' yoce professus est. Pro quo ab actionariis publicis se remeantem queritur esse constrictum impetentibus (ur Seryum juris publici ſurtim de illis partibus au- ſerre presumpserit. Qui, post illata sibi damna, cautione $e quoque ostendit obstrictum cumdem puerum ad partes illas quibus valeret viribus revo- care. Unde, pietalis causa permoti, hoc experientia tua nos deerevisse cognoscat, ut ad Panormitanas partes, ubi res agitur, ipsum mancipium , | cet jam monachi h:bitum sumpserit, debeat revocare, eum- que Fantino defensori nostro contradere, ut ipse quid de eo fieri debeat, secundum preceptionis nostrz $eriem, cujus et le quoqune textus poterit in- 'ſormare, Salubriter exsequatur. A latore ergo pree- remaneat, unde post hc Þ redivivo possint litigio fatigari. |