Letter 37: It is indeed established and prescribed by Gelasius's own orders that no one in a church or oratory not dedicated...

Pope Gelasius I to John, Bishop of Sora (495). It is indeed established and prescribed by Gelasius's own orders that no one in a church or oratory not dedicated with the permission of the apostolic see is to be thought worthy of a public procession, and that donors may not use crafty usurpations to slip past the established rules. However, because the matter of Magetia concerns the commemoration of the dead and not a public procession, Gelasius grants permission for divine offices to be celebrated in the oratory of Magetia, a lady of spectabilis rank, for the repose of the dead, provided there is no public procession.

--m] Gelasii papae acl Johannem episcopum Soranum. Ut in oratorio quodojn Magetuie feminae spectabitis defunctorum nondne eHvina p.i celebrentur officia , sed publica frequentatione et processione cessanie , indadffei. Gelasius papa Johanni episcopo Sorano^). Certum est quidem et nostris praeceptionibus constitutum, ne quis in ecclesia aut in oratorio, quod sedis nostrae non legitur per- missione dedicatum, processionem publicam putaret impendi, ne con- ditores furtivis subreptionibus contra regularum statuta prosilirent. Sed quia Magetia-) spectabilis femina petitorii nobis oblatione sug- gessit, in possessionibus propriis suonmi corpuscula condidisse; frater carissimC; humanitatis intuitu, quod priora statuta non maculef) funeribus et sepulcris, tantum in comprehensis petitorio locis mini- steria noveris pro soUemnitate prae^tanda, ut defunctorum nomine solummodo divina celebrentur officia, publica frequentatione et pro- cessione cessante. Data^) Idibus Aprilis.