Letter 7022: The woman Stephana made a commitment both to provide certain property and to enter a monastery.
Gregory to Fortunatus and Anthemius.
The woman Stephana made a commitment both to provide certain property and to enter a monastery. She is to fulfill both commitments.
First, the property she promised is to be properly conveyed as she committed. Second, her entrance into the monastery is not to be further delayed or avoided.
When a person makes commitments of this kind, the church takes them seriously. Help her fulfill what she has promised.
Gregory
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Latin / Greek Original
AD FORTUNATUM ET ANTHEMIUN.
Slephanum, ut desponsale 8ibi monasterium ingress3
res ablatas res!ituat, hortentur. Si renual, indicent,
ut reddere cogatur.
Gregorius Fortunato episcopo, et Anthemio *® de-
ſensori.
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Snam, que Stephano cuidam fuerat desponsala, di-
vinze propitiationis inslinctu Neapoli in monasteria
ſuisse conversam, atque eumdem Stephanum Þ do-
mum et rez ejus aliquas indebite detinere. At quia
C decreta legalia (Caus. 27, q. 2, c. 28) desponsatam
s| converli yoluerit nullo omnino © censuerunt «dam-
no mulectari , fraternitas tua una cum Anthemio
Subdiacono veritalem diligenti curiositale stndeat
perscrutari. At si, ut edocti sumus, domum vel quid
aliud suprascriptum Stephanum injuste tenere co-
gnoscitis, eum adhortatio vevtra instanter admo-
neat, ut quz indebite detinet sine FG aliqua mora
vel altercatione restituat, ne rerum alienarum re-
sLtilutionem Sub qualibet excusationis specie diſſe
rat. Quem $i adhortationem vestram pegligere for-
lasse cognoscitis, nobis tam hoc quam etiam qualitet
$e causz verilas habeat, $subtiliter indicate ; quate-
nus cognito negotii merito, aliter cogatur, 2quitale
Suadenle, restiluere quod facere propria sponte ho-
neslatis consideratione contemnit. Latorem verc
przxsentium fraternitati tuz commendantes, hborta
additur- per Campaniam.
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