Letter 7084: I have heard that you have returned to the unity of the Catholic church, and I congratulate you with genuine joy.

To Dominica. He rejoices that she has returned to the unity of the Church. He urges her to come to Rome to her husband. Gregory to Dominica, wife of John. Your letter has rendered us exceedingly glad, because we have learned that you have been joined, with God's protection, to the unity of the Church. And indeed, as you yourself also write, you ought to have done this before now, since it was not fitting that the wife of such a man should be separated, even for a little while, from the unity of communion. For you ought to have considered, glorious daughter, how great a multitude of the faithful abides within the bosom of mother Church, and with how great virtues the priests who have died in this faith have shone, and [...how great] the miracles they work at their own bodies; and that we do not pass judgment upon them, but you ought rather to have given credit to such great men and priests than to yourself. Yet amid these things we give thanks to almighty God, because He has so poured the light of His truth into your heart that, the darkness of your error having been driven out, [...] He shows you the straight way which you ought to follow and hold. [The editorial note in the manuscript reads as follows: "...nearly all the manuscripts present. Is the Aurelia mentioned here the same as this Aureliana? Or should one read Aurelio in place of Aurelie? Certainly in Book XI, letter 75, it is addressed to Aurelius, whom Saint Gregory consoles upon the death of his brother Dynamius, as Gussanvilleus conjectures. The conjecture of Gussanvilleus is supported by Adrianus Valesius, History of the Franks, Book XI, p. 137. Yet in the cited letter 75 the name of Dynamius is concealed; and perhaps one should read Aurelie, not Aurelio. But lest we untie this knot, the scarcity of manuscript codices stands in the way, for in nearly all the Vatican manuscripts this letter came to us. Letter XXXVII (otherwise 34). In the more recent edition: 'or how great even now.'"] [The letter resumes:] ...He would show. But your glorious husband we are unwilling to send away from us as long as we live, and therefore do not by any means trust that he will return to you. And indeed he himself desires to come to you, but since he is in the city of Rome, he cannot, it is not permitted to him, because he is held altogether bound by the bonds of our love. It is better, therefore, that you by all means hasten to come to him, since the members ought rather to follow their own head, and to accompany it wherever it shall be.

AD DOMINICAM. C Quod ad Ecclesic unitatem redierit congaudet, Hor- talur ut Romam ad virum suum veniat. Gregorius Dominicze uxori Joannis. Lze1tos nos ve+«trze nimis epistolz reddiderunt, quod vos unilati Ecclesiz $ociatas Deo protegente cogno- vimus. Et quidem, $icut ct ips# seribitis, ante hoc ſacere debuistis, quia talis viri conjugem, nec ad modicum esse decuit a communionis unitate disjun- ctam. Considerare enim debuistis, gloriosa filia, - quanta multitudo fidelium in matris Ecclesiaz $inu consistat, quantisque virtutibus. sacerdo!es, qui in ista tide defuncti sunt, coruscarunt, vel * quania ad corpora Sua miracula faciant, atque eos nos non di- judicare, $ed plus tantis viris ac sacerdotibus quam tibi credere debuisti. Inter hxc tamen omnipotenti D Deo gratias agimus, quia ita cordi veslro ſumen $uz verilatis infudit, ut, erroris $ui pulsa caligine, re- clam vobis viam, quam sequi et lenere debeatis, exhibent Mss. ſere omnes. An eadem est Aurelia fe qua hic, et ista Aureliana? An pro Aurelie legendum Aurelio ? Certe lib. x1, epist. 75, inscribitur Aurelio, quem $anctus Gregorius de morte fratris Dynamil, ut conjicit Gussanvilleus, consolatur. Conjecture Gussanvillzi Suffragatur Air. Vales. Rerum Franci- carum lib. x1, p. 137. Attamen in laudata epist. 75 Dynamii nomen dissimulatur; et ſortasse legendum Aurelie, non Aurelio. Verum ne nodum hunec $v1va- mus obs1at Mss. Codieum penuria, nam in svlv pene Vatic, A epistola hc nobis occurrit. Eeisr. XXX VII [Al. 34]. — * Ed. recent., vel quanta adnuc, > GY 0 = Wwe - TW © > ay 897 © EPISTOLARUM LB. VII. — INDICT. XV. — EPIST. XL. 898 os1enderet.” Gloriosum autem conjugem vestrum A rum © intentio a mutua, quod absit, charita'e dis- quousque vivimus a nobis dimittere nolumus , et ideo eum ad vos reverti nullatenus conlidatis. Et qJuidem ipse ad vos venire desiderat, sed postquam in civitate Romana est, non potest, non ei licet, quia amoris nostri omnino tenetur vinculis alliga- tus. Melius est ergo ut vos ad eum venire modis omnibus ſestinetis, quia caput suum potius membra et Sequi debent, et Þ quocunque ſuerit comitari.