Fortunatus
Fortunatus episcopus Neapolitanus
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Cyprian to Fortunatus, Ahymnus, Optatus, Privatianus, Donatulus, and Felix, his brothers, greetings.
Your Holiness is well acquainted with Faventius, a tenant on the estate of the Paratian forest. He, apprehending some injury or other at the hands of the owner of that estate, took refuge in the church at Hippo, and was there, as fugitives are wont to do, waiting till he could get the matter settled through my mediation. Becoming every day, as o...
Instructions Given to Ennodius and Fortunatus, Bishops; Venantius, Priest; Vitalis, Deacon; and Hilarus, Notary.
The monastery of the abbess Gratiosa is to be consecrated, and I direct you to perform the consecration.
A monastery in your diocese is to be dedicated in honor of the blessed apostle Peter and the holy archangel Michael.
I am directing you to ensure that the gates of the estate formerly belonging to Rufus are opened to Theodorus, a man...
The matter of slaves who wish to convert to Christianity is one where the church's position must be unambiguous: a...
I must address a matter of both justice and pastoral urgency.
Gregory tells Fortunatus to dedicate Theodosius' monastery, allow masses there, and leave offerings for the monks who serve the place.
Gregory to Fortunatus, Bishop of Neapolis (Naples). We have written before now to your Fraternity that, if any [slaves] by the inspiration of God, desire to come from Jewish superstition to the Christian faith, their masters have no liberty to sell them, but that from the time of their declaring their wish they have a full claim to freedom. But ...
The soap-makers [saponarii] of Naples have sent Augustine to represent their case to this see, and I have listened...
Gregory to Fortunatus, bishop of Naples.
As it is reprehensible and deserving of punishment for any one to sell consecrated vessels except in cases sanctioned by law and the sacred canons, so it is not a matter for reproach or penalty if they should be disposed of with a compassionate purpose for the redemption of captives. Since, then, we find from the information given us by your Fra...
Gregory to Fortunatus, bishop, and Anthemius, guardian (defensori). Catellus, the bearer of these presents, has informed us that his sister, who had been betrothed to one Stephen, has, through divine mercy moving her, been converted in a monastery at Naples, and that the same Stephen improperly detains a house and some other things belonging to...
Gregory to Fortunatus, bishop of Naples.
Gregory to Fortunatus, bishop of Naples.
Gregory to Fortunatus, bishop of Naples.
Having learned what zeal inflames your Fraternity in behalf of Christian slaves whom Jews buy from the territories of Gaul, we apprize you that your solicitude has so pleased us that it is also our own deliberate judgment that they should be inhibited from traffic of this kind. But we find from Basilius, the Hebrew, who has come here with other ...
Inasmuch as the Father of God's servants whom I had sent to the city of Naples has, by the ordering of God as it has pleased Him, departed this life, it has seemed good to me to send the bearer of these presents, the monk Barbatianus, for the government of the same monks. For the present we decide that he shall be Prior, so that, if his life sho...
The bearer of this letter is Fuscus, abbot of a monastery known to us, who has undertaken this journey in pursuit of...
Gregory to Fortunatus, bishop of Naples.
The woman Stephana made a commitment both to provide certain property and to enter a monastery.
When your Fraternity pays too little attention to the monasteries that are under you, you both lay yourself open to reproof, and make us sorry for your laxity. Now it has come to our ears that one Mauricius, who lately became a monk in the monastery of Barbacianus, has fled from the same monastery, taking other monks with him. In this case the h...