Letter 7037
Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)→Unknown|gregory great
From: Gregory the Great, Pope, in Rome
To: Donus, bishop
Date: ~597 AD
Context: Gregory instructs Bishop Donus to pay fifteen pounds of silver to Faustinus, or to provide the equivalent from the church's resources.
Gregory to Donus, bishop.
Fifteen pounds of silver are owed to Faustinus. Either pay them directly or provide the equivalent from the church's resources. This is not a large sum by the standards of episcopal administration, and there is no reason for delay.
See to it.
Gregory
AD DONUM EPISCOPUM.
Faustino quindecim argenti libras, aut ex Ecclesi@
pecunia, aut e sacralis vasis, in filiarum redemptio-
nem [ribuat.
Gregorius * Dono episcopo Messanensi.
Et sacrorum canonum (Gra!, 12, q. 2, c. 414), et
legalia statula permiltunt- ministeria Ecclesiz pro
captivorum esse redemptione vendenda. Et ideo +
quoniam Faustinus lator prasentium, ut filias Suas
de jugo poluisset captivitatis exuere, trecentorum
triginta Solidorum probatur debitum contraxisse, ex
quibus triginta redditis, ad relique quantitatis re-
slitutionem eum certum est non posse suſficere,
ſraternitatem tuam his hortamur affatibus ut de ar-
gento Meriensis Ecclesiz, Þ cujus miles esse digno-
scitur, quod apud vos est, quindecim ei libras acce-
pto ab eo © desuscepto dare amodis omnibus debea-
lis, ut eo venundato, et restituto. debito , F&7
necessitate valeat obligationis absolvi. Sed et illud
ſraternitas vestra debet esse s$ollicita, ut siquidem
de predicta Ecclesia ® usuale argenium est, 8upra-
Scriptam quantitatem accipiat; alioquin de sacratis
v0s$ vasis hac in re eam quam prediximus quanti-
laltem prebere necesse est. Nam (CGrat. 12, g. 2,
c. 16) sicut omnino grave est frustra ecclesiastica
Ministeria venundare, $ic iterum culpa est, imimi-
venti hujusmodi necessilate, res maxime desolale
Leclesize captivis $suis pr:xponere, et in corum re-
demptione ces8are.
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From: Gregory the Great, Pope, in Rome
To: Donus, bishop
Date: ~597 AD
Context: Gregory instructs Bishop Donus to pay fifteen pounds of silver to Faustinus, or to provide the equivalent from the church's resources.
Gregory to Donus, bishop.
Fifteen pounds of silver are owed to Faustinus. Either pay them directly or provide the equivalent from the church's resources. This is not a large sum by the standards of episcopal administration, and there is no reason for delay.
See to it.
Gregory
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.