Letter 3040: The instructions I gave you in my previous letter are to be carried out as directed.

To Peter, the subdeacon. Let him send Numerius the deacon to Rome to be consecrated, if he judges him worthy of the episcopate. Let him redeem the slave-woman Catella from Felix, if with a sincere mind she seeks the monastic habit. Gregory to Peter, subdeacon of Campania. A few days ago we wrote to you that you should question Numerius the deacon of the Church of Nuceria more carefully [...]; and if there were nothing that could stand in the way of his attaining the rank of the priesthood, you were to send him here to be consecrated, with God as its author. And therefore, if, after the questioning of which we spoke has been carried out, you are going to send the aforesaid deacon to us, you will take care to admonish the clergy and people of that same city that they should not delay to come with him in whatever number they can, so that, with them present, if it shall please God and he is to be ordained, he may be consecrated. Moreover, since Felix the defensor is said to have a girl named Catella, who indeed with great tears and vehement desire seeks the habit of the religious life, but her aforesaid master by no means permits her to convert, we therefore wish that your experience should approach the aforesaid Felix, and carefully inquire into the mind of that same girl; and if you come to know that it is so, let him offer the price of that same girl to her master, and send her here, with the Lord's help, to be placed in a monastery in the company of grave persons. But do this in such a way that the soul of the aforesaid girl may not, through any slow action of yours, suffer any harm in her desire.

AD -PETRUM $SUBDIACONUY. Numerium diaconum, 8i episcopatu diqnum judicet, Romam miltal consecrandum. Catellam 8ervam , 5i animo. sincero monaslicum habitum pelit, a Felice redimat. Gregorius Petro subdiacono Campaniz. Ante aliquot dies tibi scripsimus, ut Nnmerium diaconum * Nucerinz Ecclesiz interrogare Þ subtili- © In Cod., lib. 1, tit. 40 : Judeus servum Chrislia- num nec comparare debebit, nec largitatis aut alio quocunque litulo consequetur. Quod 5i aliquis Judao- ruM..... non 80lum mancipii damno mulletur, verum eliam capilali sen'entia puniatur, etc. Kt lege 8-quente: Graecus, seu Paganus, e: Judaus, et Samaritanus, et alius harelicus, id est, non eiislens orthodorus, non potest Christianum mancipium habere, etc. Lege di- Slinct. 04, et extra., leg. 'y, tit. 6, de Judzis, cap. 2. Infra, passim, de Judzis, necnon in conciliis Galliz, ubi plura videbantur Judzis permissa, quz prosequi. nos(ri non esl jnstituti. Gussaxv. Vide, infra, lib. 1y, episl. 21, et Eusebium, lib. iy de Vita Constanlini, Cc. 27, ubi refert pium imperatorem legem tulisse, ne Christianus, ullus Serviret Judatis; et $i quis Chri- S|lane religionis 8ervus penes Judzum deprebende- retur, illum quidem liberate donandum, Judzum vero pecunia multandum, Eeisr. XXXIX [AlL. 58]. — © Recent. Ed., redigere, Inconsullis Sane Mss., sallem antiq. et potioribus. © Turon. Co. S. Gatianij, cui concinit Edit. Pa- ris. 1518, addit ; Mense Junio, indict. 11. Eersr. XL [Al. 59]. — * Nuceria urbs olim Cam- panie in Picentinis, nunc principatus Cciterjoris if regnv Neapolit., adhuc episcopalis $ub archiep. $9 lermtlano. » Id es, curiosius, diligentius ; quo Sensu Spe 2 | OO I OT rr rn Pm e oommmmmmmmw man — —_— -—vo_—_—_ — — __ EPISTOLARUM L1B. II. — INDICT. XI. — EPIST. XLII ter debuisses$; et $i nihil esset quod'ei ad sacerdotii A tradere festinabis; ita ut nulla exiade ei sit quoquo- gradum potuisset obsislere, huc eum consecrandum Deo auctore transmitteres. Et ideo si, facta interro- gatioue quam diximus, Suprascriptum ad nos dia- conum transmissurus es, clerum et populum civita- tis ipsius admonere curabis, ut cum eo quanticun- que potuerint venire non differant, quatenus els presentibus, si Deo placuerit et ordinandus ſuerit, consecretur. G : Preterea quia Felix defensor puellam nomine Catellam habere dicitur, quz enum magnis lacrymis et vehementi desiderio habitum conversationis ap- petit, sed eam prefatus dominus Suus converti © mi- nime permiltit, proinde volumus ut 'experienlia tua prefatum 4 Felicem adeat, aique puella ejusdem animum S$ollicite requirat; ct si ita es:e cognoverit, pretium ejusdem puella suz domino prebeat, et buc eam in monasterio dandam cum personis gra- vibus, Domino auxiliante, transmittat. Ita vero hec age, ut non per lentam G5Z& actionem (uam pra- ſaiz puellze anima detrimentium aliquod in desiderio $UO Suslineat.