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Gregory to John, abbot of Reggio [Reggio Calabria].
Matters pertaining to the correction of religious persons are things we neither ought nor is it fitting for us to overlook. It has come to our attention that many offenses are being committed in the monastery of Saint Andrew, which is situated near Vulcanum [likely a volcanic area near Reggio Calabria]. Therefore, by the command of our authority, it is necessary that you proceed to that monastery and investigate everything that is reported with careful inquiry. And if you find matters to be as alleged — God forbid — you shall punish those responsible according to the Rule, so that fitting discipline may teach them to abstain from wicked and unlawful acts hereafter.
AD JOANNEM ABBATEM.
Ad monasterium sancti Andrea proficiscatur , vitios0s
coerciturus ac puniturus.
Gregorius Joanni abbati * de Regio
Ea que ad correptionem religiosarum pertinent
personarum nos prelerire nec decet, nec convenit.
Pervenit itaque ad nos in monaslerio sancli Andrez,
quod juxta » Vulcanum est positum, multa perpe-
lrari facinora. Atque ideo auctoritalis nostre pre-
ceptione 8u{7:!:um ad id te-monasterium prolicisci
necesse est, et omnia que dicuntur sublili investi-
gatione discutere. Et $i ita, quod absit, inveneris,
Sic in jllos regulariter vindicabis, ut digna eos coer-
citio a pravis et illicitis de cxtero doceat aclibus
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Gregory to John, abbot of Reggio [Reggio Calabria].
Matters pertaining to the correction of religious persons are things we neither ought nor is it fitting for us to overlook. It has come to our attention that many offenses are being committed in the monastery of Saint Andrew, which is situated near Vulcanum [likely a volcanic area near Reggio Calabria]. Therefore, by the command of our authority, it is necessary that you proceed to that monastery and investigate everything that is reported with careful inquiry. And if you find matters to be as alleged — God forbid — you shall punish those responsible according to the Rule, so that fitting discipline may teach them to abstain from wicked and unlawful acts hereafter.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.