Letter 1020: Having read the contradictory letters which you and your bishop have addressed to us against each other, we grieve that there is so little charity between you. Nevertheless we enjoin you to continue in the administration of your office, and, if the cause of offense between you can, under the power of grace, be settled on the spot, we believe it ...

Book I, Letter 20 To Honoratus, Deacon of Salona [modern Split, Croatia]. Gregory to Honoratus. Having read the conflicting letters that you and your bishop have sent us against each other, we are grieved that there is so little charity between you. Nevertheless, we direct you to continue in the duties of your office. If the source of conflict between you can, by God's grace, be settled locally, we believe that will greatly benefit both your souls. But if the discord has set you so firmly against each other that neither is willing to resolve the dispute, come to us for a hearing without delay. Let your bishop send a representative of his choosing, fully briefed on the case, so that after examining the whole matter in detail, we may determine what is right between you. We also want you to know that we will question you closely on all points about the church's sacred vessels and ornaments -- both those belonging to your own church and those collected from other churches -- and whether they are being kept with proper care and honesty. If any are found to have been lost through negligence or dishonesty, you will bear the responsibility, since as Archdeacon you are specifically charged with the safekeeping of your church's property.

Book I, Letter 20 To Honoratus, Deacon of Salona. Gregory to Honoratus, etc. Having read the contradictory letters which you and your bishop have addressed to us against each other, we grieve that there is so little charity between you. Nevertheless we enjoin you to continue in the administration of your office, and, if the cause of offense between you can, under the power of grace, be settled on the spot, we believe it will be greatly to the advantage of your souls. But in case the discord between you has so set you in arms against each other that you have no will to allay the swelling of your offense, come without delay to be heard before us, and let your bishop send to us on his own behalf such person as he may choose, furnished with instructions; that, after minutely considering the whole case, we may settle what may appear fit between the parties. But we would have you know that we shall make strict enquiry of you on all points, as to whether the ornaments , either those of your own church, or such as have been collected from various churches, are being now kept with all care and fidelity. For, if any of them shall be found to have been lost through negligence or through any person's dishonesty, you will be involved in the guilt of this, being, in virtue of your office of Archdeacon, peculiarly responsible for the custody of the said church.

Gregorius Hounorato Þ diacono © Salonitano. Ea quz nobis contra vos tu et episcopus tuus con» traria direxisiis scripta agnoscentes, doluimus, eo quod inter vos nihil charitas recognoscit. Verumta- men te in officio ordinis tui administrare pra cipimus; et si illic polest, superante gratia, causa vestri scan- dali deliniri, multum credimus vestlr# animz acqui- Sivisse. Sin vero ita discordia inter vos parles suas armavit, 8 ut-in tumore SOS scandali volunias ve- S|ra debeat remanere, tu ad nostram audientiam 4 jn- diſferenter occurre; et episcopus tuus pro se dirigat parte navis ad Austrum collocabant. Vide Mabillon:, Comment. in Ord. Rom., s3. In istis porro salutaty- niis erant quandoque mansiones, ut videre esl apud Gregorium Turon., lib. 1 Histor., cap. 21, et lib. vii, cap. 22. Secretarium winus, in quo Sac erdotes Sacra ſacturi sacras vesies induebant, aut alla quz ad 'sa- cram liturgiam <spectant, exsequebantur. llzc innuere videlur Sev. Sulpicius, loco supra citato. Partim ex GCussavv. In multis Vaticanis, dccusatur. © Archidiaconatum intellige, qui non pres ytero, ut lit, sed Solis diaconis competebat, ut ex hac epi- Stola liquet. Qui multa de diaconis vulgo incoguita scire avel, legat Codinum, de offic, aulz: Constanl., el Joannem episcopum Citri, in Respons. ad Caba+i- lm. Gussaxv. Cur Natalis Honoratum ad presbyte- ratum promovendo ab archidiaconatu vellet dejicere, infra patebit. Sic olim Anatolius CP. patriarcha AMiium archidiaconum sSibi invisum, ut ab ch_—_— natu amoveret, presbyterum fecit; Qui, inquit <an- ctus Leo, epist. 84, ad Marcianum, non inventiens quod arqueret in fide, quod improbaret in_moribus, dejectionem innocentis per spectem honoris imple. 4 Fditi, accusat, cum lezalur excusat in umnibus ſere Mss. Vatic., Reg., Corb., Norm., etc. Eeist. XX (Al. 10), — ® Pramittitur i iv Colh. mense Noremb. indict. 9, Conxentiente Turon. S. Gat. In Alb. seu Andeg., ut in Editis, legitur, mense Decembri, elc. EPISTOLA XXIl. AD NONNOSUM. Maurentium de possessione quam peliit dicit se exau- diturum. Gregorius Nonnoso. Omnipotens Deus cordi vestro indicet quanta de- volione ac dilectione vohis conjungor. BYG Et si han per epistolas implere nequeo, si quando Llamen opportunitatem inveniam, 1rebus ostendere curabo, Salutationis prelerea alloquium solvens, indico quia veniente humili vestro domno Maurentio de posscs- vZione quam gloria vestra pet. it, per omnia pare- bimus.