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Book V.
Epistle II.
To Felix, Bishop, and Cyriacus, Abbot1575
| 1575 They had been sent
by Gregory into Sardinia with the special purpose of promoting the
conversion of the natives, which had been neglected by the bishops and
clergy of the island. See V. 41, and IV. 23, note 8. | .
Gregory to Felix, &c.
The tenor of the report submitted to you
sufficiently explains the complaint of the religious lady Theodosia, in
which we have found on reading it many heads of accusation, not
befitting priestly gentleness, against our brother and fellow-bishop
Januarius; so much so that, after the foundation by her of a monastery
for servants of God, all that pertains to
avarice, turbulence, and wrong is said to have been exhibited at the
time of the very dedication of the oratory. Wherefore, if the
case is as we find in her aforesaid representation, and if you are
aware that anything at all unbecoming has been committed besides, we
exhort you that, all wrongs having first been redressed, you press upon
Musicus, the abbot of the monastery of Agilitanus1576
| 1576 Apparently the
designation of the monastery which had been now at length founded by
Theodosia in execution of her late husband’s will. See
above, IV. 8, 15. In IV. 15, Gregory had acceded to her desire in
view of certain difficulties in carrying out her husband’s
intention, to found a nunnery in a house of her own at Cagliari.
But it seems that a monastery of monks had in the end been founded. | , that he lose no time in giving the
greatest attention to his monks whom he had began to settle there, to
the end that, this venerable place being with the Lord’s help set in order by you in a decent and
regular manner, neither may we be disturbed by the frequent complaints
of the aforesaid religious lady that her good desires are not
fulfilled, nor may it be to the detriment of your soul that so pious a
design should languish, as we do not believe it will, through any
neglect of yours.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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