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Epistle LIX.
To Secundinus, Bishop.
Gregory to Secundinus, Bishop of
Tauromenium. [In Sicily.]
Some time ago we ordered that the
baptistery1511
| 1511 Baptisteries
(baptisteria) were anciently separate buildings adjoining
churches (cf. VI. 22), the fontes being the pools of water
(called also piscinæ and κολυμβήθρα) therein contained. (See Bingham, B. VIII. C. VII. Sect.
1, 4.) The inconvenience to the monks of having a baptistery at
their monastery would be from the concourse of people resorting to it,
which would interfere with monastic seclusion. For a similar
reason Gregory more than once forbids public masses in
monasteries. Cf. e.g. II. 41; VI. 46. | should be removed
from the monastery of Saint Andrew, which is above Mascalæ,
because of inconvenience to the monks, and that an altar should be
erected in the place where the fonts now are. But the carrying
out of this order has been put off so far. We therefore admonish
thy Fraternity that thou interpose no further delay after receiving
this our letter, but that the fonts themselves be filled up1512
| 1512 Fonts were anciently
sunken pools. “In medio habet fontem in terra excavatam ad
quinque ulnas…tribus gradibus in id descensus
est.” Onuphrius, de baptisterio
Lateran. | , and an altar at once erected there for
celebration of the sacred mysteries; to the end that the aforesaid
monks may be at liberty to celebrate more securely the work of
God, and that our mind be not provoked against
thy Fraternity for negligence.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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