Letter 9032: The case involving Leo, bishop of Catania, has reached a point where I must give you clearer direction.

[Opening fragment:] Our renowned son, the former consul Leontius, has gravely complained concerning our brother and fellow bishop Leo, and his complaint has thoroughly disturbed us, because in this way [...]. [Editorial apparatus and textual variants omitted as illegible OCR.] GREGORY TO LEONTIUS, FORMER CONSUL. [...] receiving our letters with fatherly [favor], if we should strive to carry that out, there is no doubt that your Glory works of its own accord; let us not allow the desires of our sons to be saddened. And therefore, because our glorious son Apollonius, master of the soldiers, the bearer of the present letter, wished to be commended to you by our pages, we, greeting your Glory with fatherly affection, ask that, with due regard for what is right, he may find the grace of your favor and obtain the help of your protection in whatever may be necessary, so that, while your Glory shall bestow through our commendation also those things which it has been accustomed to grant of its own accord, both he himself may rejoice to find in you the support he hoped for, and we may render abundant thanks to your most sincere goodness. IX, 35. [Heading: Pope Gregory I writes to Fantinus the defensor concerning a hospice [xenodochium] to be established in the city of Panormus [Palermo] from the will of Isidore, of revered memory. 598, October.] GREGORY TO FANTINUS THE DEFENSOR. Those things which a devout intention of the will commands to be done, in order that they may be able to come to effect, priestly care ought to attend to. Accordingly we instruct your Experience to press upon the heirs of Isidore, a man of illustrious memory, constantly and more forcefully, so that they may hasten to fulfill without any difficulty the things which have been arranged concerning the hospice which their testator established to be made in the city of Panormus through the disposition of his last will, lest, if they should think it ought to be neglected any longer, they may now incur the wrath of God coming from the laws, which those who delay to fulfill a disposition of this kind deserve. But if the amount assigned for their hospice, which is to be made, should perhaps appear not to be able to suffice, let the place in which that very hospice was to have been established, or whatever was left there, be applied to the hospice of Saint Theodore, which was formerly established in the aforesaid city by Peter, so that both the heirs may be released from the solicitude or labor of establishing the hospice, and the will of the deceased may wholesomely take effect, since, even if in another place, nevertheless whatever was assigned by the testator is paid out for that same purpose. Let your Experience exercise such solicitude that one of the two may be done without any delay. [IX, 36 heading and text largely illegible OCR:] GREGORY TO EUSEBIUS [...] [...] let him expend nothing on ecclesiastical [matters], but let him profit in that hospitality which he shows, because it is fitting that we ought in all ways to assist and bring counsel to a good and praiseworthy work.

riliUB noater glorioaua vir Leontiua exconaule*^ de fratre et ooepiacopo noatro Leone''' graviter est questus, noeque eius querella omni roodo perturbavit, quia ita I ^) ita Dium. /. 53; li mn. todd. n. •) atant 04. t) iarae C 1. 2, ttd torr. C2; iure (eccle- (uutico) 04. B) Don om. Ol. S, Kd m. 2 add. 02. ") diffor 01; differt corr. tn differU 03. ') ila Dium. /. 53; coniiiioluiii eodd. n. IX, 31. •) »er«ci C3.4. <>) ipecuIariMr 01.2.3; apetisliter C4; peodia rite eoni. ifomnuen. •) ideoque codd. n.; om. et 04. ^) defenaorie eodd n. •) uoetri 04. f) CBtheDensibiu Cl.4; . Caten. C2; CtuleD. C3. ■) Sir&c. C3. h) auHa» 01; caritBtii corr. m cuitai m. 2. 03. >) ila Dium.f.M. 04; rotu 01.2.3. IX, 32 in tituio: SirACusaDo 01. 3, ted in indieibiu: Syr. — ■) ex conioUta eodd. n. >■) de fratrii et coepiscopi iiostri LeoDia Cl. 2. 3; vits mppl. Em. IX, 31. Oyridatio pMtea cara Bilonici mandata ett: cf. ep, IX, HS. I) Cf. ep. praecedente». i 3} Cf. Diumi f 54. 55. IX, 32. De JiAofnic cf. ep. VI, 18 n. I) De Leontio <f. qp. VIII, 3S n. 3) De Leone Cata- nenei cf. ep. I, 70 p. 00 n. 3. IV,34n. VI,45n. yGoogle ,GoogIe GREGORIUS LEONTIO EXCONSULE. ocienteB gratia patcrna vos scripta' auecipere, ai illud peragcre'' Btudearous, gloriKin Testram uUro non est dubiuro opcrari': filionim noBtrorum dfbideria non patiamur'' con- tristari*. Et ideo quia glorioBUB filiuB uoster Apollonias' magister militum' lator" prac- sentium nostris se apud vos voluit apicibiis commeudari, Balutantes gloriam Tcstraro'' paterna dilectione petimuB, ut salva ratione gratiam vestri ' favoris inveniat et patrocinionun opem in quocumque neceaae fiierit coneequatur, quatcnus, dum gloria veatra ea quae sponte conBuevit impendere nostra quoque commendatione praestiterit, ct ipse bo optatum in vobis gaudeat invenire subBidium et nos uberes sinceriBBimae bonitati veatrae gradae referamua. K, 35. Gregorius I. pajm Fantino defensori scribit de xenodockio ex testamento Jsidori, metmriae viri, in urbe Panormitana constUuendo. !>!>8, Oet. Codd. C: cap. 93. Edd. M: LO). XII. ep. 10; G: L*. X. <p. II. — laffi Sig. 1559 (1441). GREGORIUS PANTINO DEPENSORI. ba quae tienda mandat piae' voluntatis intentio'', ut ad effectum^^ valeant por- venire, cura debet sacerdotalia exiatere. Proinde experientiao tuae praccipimua, iit heredibua laidori'' inluetris meraoriae viri adsidue et forliuB debeat inminere, ut xeno- dochium quod auctor eoruro per' ultimae voluntatia arbitrium in Panonnitana' fieri civitate coostituit aine aliqua difficultate quae aunt diepoBita implere featinent', ne, ei ampliue adhuc neglegendum putaverint, iam iram Dei'' de iegibue venientero, quaro' huiusmodi dispositionem implere differentee merentur, incurrant'. Si vero deputata in eorum xenodochio^, quod fiendum eet, quantitae' videtur forte non poese sufGcere, locus" ia quo xenodocbium ipsum fiierat conetituendum vel quicquid ibi relictum est xenodochio sancti Theodorl', quod in praedicta civitate a Petro quoudam constitutum est, applicetur, quatenua et beredes a eollicitudine vel laboro conetituendi xenodochii vateant exui et voluntas defuncti Balubriter sumat effecturo", dum, etsi in loco alio, ipsi tamen rei quicquid a teetatore deputatum est erbgatur. Ita experientia tua sollicitudinem gerat, ut unum e duobua eine aliqua debeat fieri" tarditate. «al>tu ind. Cl. 2. ■) Bcripts om., led add. m. 3 C2. >>} praeagere Cl. 2, nd cott. C2. '} ut hic add. C 4. <') patimar, uf videtur, C2. *) contristriBl*ri CS; es conitri«tari eorr. C3. ^) Appolioniu« C2.3, tedeorr. CS. s) \Uon C l 2. 3. ^) ttiKUMa im. Cl. ') Tertmn Ci. IX, 36. •) pis C3. ") iDtentio om. Cl. «) nt •ffectnin C 1. 3. 3, led corr. C'3. ■») HUidori U Cl. 2; Yeidori C3. •) pro C3. P«nonnit« C1.2 et ex PBDonnite eorr. C3. t) feetiuet C3. 3. >■) iMHtTTam de C I. 2. S; iam tynnnide C4. ') in Aic add. C3. ^) xenodochis C3. >) ex quautu eorr. C 1. ») loonm Cl.2. 3. ") sffectum C1.3. •>) 6eri om. eodd. n„ led add m. 2. C2; compleri C4. IX, 34. De LeotOio eiuaqat wiunere cf. ep. VIII, 33 n. IX,4n.3. I) De Apolbmio ef. ep. 49 IX, le n.l. IX, 36. De FatUmo, miore pairiawnii Ptmomalani, ef. ep. III, 56 n. IV, 43 n. i) Cf. C. I. 1,3,46. 2) De mona*terio S. Theodori cf. ep. I, 9. V, 4 n. 1.2 ; RoA. Pirrwn in 3ic. mcra p. 31. 23. Beo, OftEO. U. 9 yGoogle GBEI50R1! T. KEGISTI CMd. C .■a.3. «. £\*.i Jf; L*. X£ ™. .-T. '.; L*. IX <ii. ". - ^'■■*< J GREG*JKIVS iSTHEMIO SU >j-i-*VT\ tte r.;:n.' ie i? eis Tili* d-f-jcia ar.jie ci^c:! ,GoogIe ecGlesiaeticis nihil impendati, sed in ea illi'' quatn exhibet hospitalitate proficiat, quia dignum est, ut bono laudandoque operi'= concurrere ac ferre conBultum modis omnibus debeamus.