Letter 8: VARIAE, APPENDIX, LETTER 8

Gelasius to the bishops Quinigesius and Constantinus. Felix and Petrus, clergy of the church of Nola, in a contumacious manner and as rebels against the established order, thought that they must hasten to the court of my son the king, claiming that violence had been done to them while the duty of their clerical office was passed over in silence; and, with an authority they had presumed against all civil good order, having hired barbarians for themselves, they afflicted their above-named bishop with grave injuries and losses. It was therefore necessary that our above-mentioned brother, Bishop Serenus, should hurry to that same lord, my son; and once the fraud had been disclosed, that most excellent man, my son King Theodoric, in keeping with the blessedness of his own times, sent the contumacious clergy back to our examination.

VIII. GELASIUS QUINIGESIO ET CONSTANTINO EPISCOPIS. [1] Felix et Petrus ecclesiae Nolanae clerici contumaciter et contra constitutum rebelles ad comitatum filii mei regis putaverunt esse properandum dicentes sibi vim fuisse generatam tacito clericatus officio; et auctoritate promerita contra civilitatem redemptis sibi barbaris supra scriptum episcopum suum gravibus iniuriis et dispendiis affecerunt. proinde necessarium fuit, ut ad eundem dominum filium meum supra dictus frater noster Serenus episcopus convolaret ostensaque fraude secundum beatitudinem temporum suorum vir praecellentissimus filius meus Theodoricus rex ad nostrum contumaces clericos remisit examen.