Letter 11051: Word has come of an imminent barbarian threat against Sicily.

To all the bishops of Sicily. They are to proclaim litanies on two days of each week against the threatening invasion of the enemy, and to exhort the faithful away from worldly perversity. Gregory to all the bishops of Sicily. [The body of this letter survives only as a closing fragment:] ...he is kind and gentle, if he sees that we, amended from our evils, love his commandments; and he is mighty both to defend us here against the enemy and to prepare eternal joys for us in time to come. Letter LII. To Donus, bishop of Messina, that what was adjudged between Placidus and the agents of the Church of Messina may be carried out. Gregory to Donus, bishop of Messina. No end is ever imposed upon disputes, if the carrying out of the things that have been adjudged is deferred. Our son Placidus, therefore, a magnificent man, has complained to us that your Fraternity is unwilling to carry out those things which, by the judgment of God, were settled between him and the agents of your Church. And if this is so, we are astonished that, while it would befit you to pursue your own peace, you should reserve for yourselves a scruple of contention. Accordingly, we exhort you by these present writings that you ought to inquire into the matter with subtlety. And if anything has been less than fully carried out, yet provided there is nothing that can justly stand in the way, let the discord be brought to a close; so that neither may the aforesaid magnificent man complain that he is being wearied without reason, nor may you appear to have, contrary to the purpose of your order, slighted what is just. Given in the month of June, in the fourth indiction.

AD UNIVERSOS SICILIE EPISCOP0S. Adversus imminentem hostium invasionem binas hebdomadam litanias indicant, et fideles a s@culari perversilale dehortentur. | Gregorius universis episcopis Sicilie. Eeisr. XLIX [Al. 43]. — * In Vatic. A, qui pene s0lus cum Remig. et Victor. epistolam hanc exhi- bet, et restiarium. Eersr. L [Al. 44]. — * Apud Gratianum, loco laudato, nec quondam. © De ea Supra. Vide novell. Jystiniani 123, ec. 40, que videlur posse explicari de matrimonio rato, quod tunc non venit in mentem 8ancti Gregorii. Nunc aem matrimonium ratum $0lvitur religionis in- benignus et milis est, si nos a malis nostris emen- datos sua viderit mandata diligere, et hic nos potens est ab hosle deſendere, et in futuro zterna nobis gaudia preparare. (Cf, Joan. Diac. |. 1v, c. 33.) EPISTOLA LII.! AD DONUM MESSANENSEM EPISCOPUM, 1d compleatur quod Placidum inter et Messanensis Ecclesic actores judicatum est. Gregorius Dono episcopo Mes«anensi. Nullus unquam contentionibus finis imponitur, $i impleri ea que judicata fuerint differantur. Filius itaque noster Placidus, vir magnificus, questus est D nobis ea qua inter eum et actores Ecclesiz vestr Dei judicio definita sunt ſraternitatem vestram nolle complere. Quod si ita est miramur, ut dum quieti vestrz vos deceat studere, contentionis yobis scru- pulum reservetis. Proinde scriptis vos przsentibus gressu, modo non ſyerit consummatum. Quid si eo- pula precesserit nuplias, poteritne vir uxore invita religiunem ingredi? Gussaxv. Ista novella Jaudatur ad hunc canonem in novissima corporis juris can. Editione; verum pro c. 40 as$ignatur c. 58, ut est divisa novella apud Julianum. Eeisr. Ll | Al. 4]. — * Litania a verbo Graco Miooeua, 8upplico, 8ignificat hic 8 Fe publi- cam. Nomen sumpsit a verbis illis Kyrie eleigon, que - premittuntur. Hine sanctus Benedictus reg. Cc. 9, ost hoc.... supplicatio litanie, id est Kyrie eleison. De is ſuse in notis ad lib. Sacram, et infra in appets dice epistolarum, - SANCTI GREGORH MAGNL adbortamur ut subtiliter requirere debeatis. Et £1 A natus vos ſuerit exeusare, de nostris tamen adhue guid minus impletum eat, 8i tamen nibil est quod juste pogsit obgistere;, sige discordia compleatur; qualenyus * nee Supradictus magniſicus vir se quera- luc irrationabiliter ſatigari, nec vos contra ordinis yesLlri propogitum videamini despexisse quod juslum est. Þ Datum mense Junii, indict. 4.