Letter 10066: The monastery founded by Adeodatus may be consecrated.
Gregory to Decius, bishop of Lilybeum.
The monastery founded by Adeodatus may be consecrated. I grant this permission subject to the usual conditions: that the necessary endowments are secured and legally confirmed, that the community is canonically constituted, and that the relevant documentation is properly prepared.
See to the consecration with appropriate care and solemnity.
Gregory
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Latin / Greek Original
AD DECIUM LILYBETANUM EPISCOPUM.
Solitis cautionibus udhibitis, cons!ructum ab Adeodala
monaslerium consecret.
Gregorius Decio episcopo ® Lilybelano.
Adeodata gloriosa ſemina petitoria nobis insinua-
tions Suggessit quod habetur in subditis : in domo
ziquidem juris $ui intra civitatem Filybetanam mo-
naSterium ancillarum Dei a $olo 8@ pro $ua devo-
tione ſundasse, quod in honorem beati Petri princi-
pis apostolorum, et sanciorum Christi mariyrum
Laurentii, Hermetis, Pancratii, Sebastiani et Agne-
lis desiderat consecrari. Et ideo, frater charissime,
quia in tua civitate memorala constructio jure con-
Sistit, $i nullum corpus ibidem constat humatum,
percepta prius donatione legilima, id est, in reditu
prxslantes liberos a tributis fiscalibus solidos decem,
pueros tres, boum paria tria, mancipia alia quz $er-
riant in ips0 monaslerio numero quinque, equas nu-
mwero decem, vaccas decem, haslulas vinearum nu-
mero quatuor, oves numero quadraginla, etc., 8e-
cundum morem.
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