Letter 11024: Gregory to John, military tribune at Siponto.

Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)John, military tribune at Siponto|c. 597 AD|Pope Gregory the Great|AI-assisted
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Gregory to John, military tribune at Siponto.

The bearer of this letter is in need of assistance that requires the cooperation of both military and ecclesiastical authority. I ask you to work together with Bishop Vitalianus to secure the freedom or protection he needs.

This kind of cooperation — between those who represent the church and those who represent civil and military power — is how the church and the state can serve the people together. I am grateful for your willingness to engage in it.

Act on this promptly and let Bishop Vitalianus know the outcome.
Gregory

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Latin / Greek Original

AD JOANNEM TRIBUNUM SIPONTINUM.

Horlatur ut cum Vitaliano episcopo de epistole hujus
latoris libertale decernat.

Gregorius Joanni iribuno Sipontino.

Lator przxsentium de $latug Sui conditione nobis
sepius conquestus est a Boyifacio nostro notario
| 1107 sibi vio!entiam irrogari. Cyjus rei cognitionem

in ſratris et coepisc- pi nostri vindjank notitiam pre-
vidimus *. perſerendam. Cujus causz meritum $e
examinasse professus ext. Sed quia ad proſerendum
judicium $e assurgere nullalenus dicit, bortamur ma-
gnitudinem vestram ut pro causa mercedis xterne
cum predicto- resideatis episcopo, et, rei meritum
evidentius perscrutantes, quidquid vobis suadente
justitia visum ſuerit, scripto decernile; et si de ejus
vobis ceriius libertate constiterit, nullis deinceps
quorumlibet inquietudinibus ad rei decise meritum
provocetur, sed in ea qua vobis visum ſuerit liberlate
declaratus Secure permaneat.

* EPISTULA XXV.
AD JANUARIUM CARALITANUM EPISCOPUM.

Laudat quod virorum monasterium in dom» ancillarum
Dei monaslerio coherente construi noluerilt. Mona-
chos lumen aut in ips0 monialium discedentium loco,
aut in deslituto quodam monasterio conslitui jubet ,
ipsumque Januario commend.t.

Gregorius Januariv episcopo Caralitano.
Gratam nobis ſraternitatis vestre 8vllicitudinem

Eersr. XXII[AL 18]. —* Corrupie in quibusdam
Mss. Cod. etantiquis Editis prothochii, pr» ptochodo-
ci, rectius in aliis Manuscripis prockii. Nempe 77
ytia domus alendis pauperibas destinala, alias rnrwu-
807 «ov. Gus-anv. In Valic. A legitur protockii,
pro parochi@; quam vocem kic habet Victor. Infra
autem habet in minis/erio ptochi: ; nec facile est ve-
ram lectionem certo staluere, propter Mss. Codicum
penu: iam. 1» $olo quippe Valic. A, in Victorino et in
Rhemig. epistvlam hanc reperimus.

» De Barvaricns jam ad ep. 23 lib. Iv. Hilos a Van-
dalis e Numidia Alrice proviucia pulsos narrat Pro-
copius de Bello Vaudal., lib. nu. Vandali, inquit in

tamine animarum, ut oportebat, exlubuit. Nuntiotum
8iquidem nobis est qu«d in domo quondam Ep pha-
nii, lectoris Ecclesiz vesir:x, ide-rco 8ecundum vo-
luntatem ipsijus monasterium conslrui vetu'stis, ne
pro eo quod ® domug ipsa ancillarum Dei monasterio
cohxrebat, deceptio exinde contingeret anmurum,
Et valde laudavimus, quia antiqui hboslis insidias pro-
visione congrua, ut decuit, praecavistis. Sed quia
perlatum ad nos est Pompeianam religiosam ſeminan
velle de codem mon-sterio ancillias Dei toliere, et
per $va Þ unde tultz ſuerant monasteria revocare,
atque illic congregationem constituere mon2chorum,
nece-$e esl ut si impletum hoc facrit, deſuncti dispo-
Sitio modis omnibus conservetur (Grat. 15, q. 2, c. 4).

B Si vero ſactum hoc non fuerit, ne testatoris voluntas

in tolum videatur es>e frusirata, volumus ut quia
monasterium Urbani quondam abbatis, positum ſuis
extra Civitatem Caralitanam, ita dicitur destitutum,
vt ne unus quidem illic 1 LOS monachus remaneret,

C Et bec quidem omnia fraternitas vestra una cum Vi-

tali deſensore disponat, et ita ea ntiliter s(udeat or-
dinare, ut sicut de lJaudabili prohibitione, ita quoque
de bona habere possit constructione mercedetn, Ipsum
vero monaslrrium licet ſraternitati vestr:e sit super-
vacuun commendari, hortamur lamen ex abundanti
ut id salva justitia, Sicut vos decet, habeatis con

mendatum.

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