Letter 4037: A monastery in your diocese is to be dedicated in honor of the blessed apostle Peter and the holy archangel Michael.

Gregory to Fortunatus, bishop. A monastery in your diocese is to be dedicated in honor of the blessed apostle Peter and the holy archangel Michael. I direct you to carry out this dedication with appropriate solemnity and care. The dedication of a religious house to such powerful patrons is an occasion of spiritual significance for the whole region. See that it is done well. The community that will inhabit this monastery, the clergy who will participate in the dedication ceremony, and the faithful who will attend — all deserve a ceremony conducted with genuine reverence. Once the dedication is complete, report to me on the state of the new monastery and the condition of its community. Gregory

AD FORTUNATUM EPISCOPUY. Monasterium in honorem 8«ancti Petri et sancli Michae- lis dedicet, in quo mis8as celebrent presbyteri ibi de- servientes ; monachis tamen proficial quidquid a fide- libus- ojſerri conligeril. Gregorius Fortunato episcopo Neapolitano. Theodosius, abbas monasterii sancti Martini, pe- titoria nohis insinuatione Suggessit, que babetur in Subditis, in domo quondam * Martini, Þ ex ejus volunlate, decessorem $num Andream abbatem mo- nas{erium in quo monachi- habitare debeant constru- xi-se, Et quia id in honorem beali Petri apostolorum principis, et sancti archangeli Michaelis posLulat de- mus adhortandam, quatenus ad pr:dictum locum, cum poslulaverit, ingravanter acced:s, venerande solemnia dedicativnis impendens. Et quoties necesse ſuerit, a presbyteris Ecclesiez tux in loco $ancto deservientibus, celebrentur sacriſiciza veneranda 7G6Z missarum, ita ut in eodem monasterio nec ſraternitas tua, nec presbyteri, © preler diligentiam discipline aliquid molestiarum inſerant ; aut $i quid illic pro diversorum devotione commoditatis acces- Serit, Sibi existiment vindicari, cum monachis in eo- dem loco deservientibus debeat proſicere quidquid a ſidelibus offerri contigerit 9.