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Epistle
VI.
To Cyprian, Deacon.
Gregory to Cyprian, Deacon and Rector of Sicily.
It has been reported to us that a native of the
province of Lucania, Petronilla by name, was converted1528
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with the usual sense of monastic profession. | through the exhortation of the bishop
Agnellus, and that all her property, though she had it in her own
power, she nevertheless bestowed on the monastery which she entered
even by a special deed of gift: also that the aforesaid bishop
died leaving half of his substance to one Agnellus, his son, who is
said to be a notary of our Church, and half to the said
monastery. But, when they had fled for refuge to Sicily because
of the calamity impending on Italy, the above-named Agnellus is said to
have corrupted her morals and defiled her, and, finding her with child,
to have seduced her from the monastery, and to have taken away with her
all her belongings, both those that had been her own and such as she
might have had given her by his own father, and that, after
perpetrating such and so great a crime, he claims these things as his
own. We therefore exhort thy Love to cause the aforesaid man, and
the above-named woman, to be summarily brought before thee, and to
institute a most thorough enquiry into the case. And, if thou
shouldest find it to be as reported to us, determine an affair defiled
by so many iniquities with the utmost severity of expurgation; to the
end that both strict retribution may overtake the above-named man, who
has regarded neither his own nor her condition, and that, she having
been first punished and consigned to a monastery under penance, all the
property that had been taken away from the oft above-named place, with
all its fruits and accessions, may be restored.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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