Letter 54

Pope Pelagius IUnknown|c. 559 AD|pelagius i|From Rome
monasticism

Pope Pelagius I to Unknown.

Ined.: ( 2 ). PELAGIUS [PAPA] CONSTANTINO DEFENSORI. Ro1 manus, clericus of the church Theanensis, for crimine adulterii that eum admisisse perhibetur, <a> clericatus ordine depositus, in mo¬ nasterio, this in urbe Roma, to agendam paenitentiam from nostra iussione retrusus is; thus so that, if when exinde egredi and to Cam2 paniam reuerti temptauerit, poenam, which now ecclesiastica mo¬ deratione temperata is, subeat, and indubitanter patiatur exilium. fol. 114 : (1-2), C, fol. 106 : (1-2); G fol. 48: (1); H fol. 69 : (1). thean. clericus B C G H teanensis G, tianensis from tanensis {?) H 8. B CiGH amisisse B depositus] B C 2 {parv. ras. after t; from deposito? G: deposito B C H 4 urbe romana G H 5 retrusus is {and rei. when B B H) oin. G egredi and] regredi [and om.] C 4 6 reuerti] in marg. 7 -deracione C 4 paciatur Cg C . Tit. Constantino defensori: Idem Campanus defensor, who now in ep. 22,3, p. 69, recordatus is. Cf. that wrote P. Kehr, o. c., t. VIII p. 70,1, who veri simile putat, eum to have been illum Consentiam (or Constan¬ tium) who, teste S. Gregorio great (J-E. 1618; cf. also J-E 1619) Reg., Campaniae curam gesserat. 1. Romanus clericus: to whom idcirco matrimonimn licitmn manebat; facilius therefore his lapsus concipitur. Cf. notulas in ep. 47,2, p. 128. of the church Theanensis: Teani Sidicini (now Teano), in Campania, whose, bishop then temporis not was Domninus, sicut hucusque cre¬ ditum is. Cf. adnotationes in ep. 93, p. 221. Quoad the see Teanensem a clericatus ordine depositus: Cf. also ep. 82,1: in officio to be dicitur clericatus, and adnotationes in ep. 19,26, p. 61, PEI.AGII I PAPAE to the bishop vetitum is of the church suae iura abdicare, posteaquam eadem confirmata are.

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