Letter 1045: The barbarian invasions that continue to afflict Illyricum have produced a particular tragedy that I must address:...

To all the bishops throughout Illyricum. That they should take in the bishops driven out by the enemy, and supply them with necessities. Gregory to all the bishops throughout Illyricum. Jobinus, that most excellent man, our son, prefect throughout Illyricum, is known to have informed us by his writings that, by the sacred imperial documents directed to him, it had been commanded that the bishops whom the fury of hostility had driven out from their own places were to be joined, for the support and stipends of the present life, to those bishops who up to now dwell in their own places. And although the imperial command admonishes your fraternity to this end, we nevertheless have a greater precept from the eternal Prince, by which we are compelled to carry out things even more awe-inspiring than these: namely, that-I do not say our brothers and fellow bishops, but even those very persons whom we endure as adversaries against us-when occasion demands, we should bind to ourselves in the conferring of aid for the necessities of the flesh. It behooves you, therefore, both to show yourselves first of all obedient in this matter to the heavenly Prince, and also to consent to the imperial commands, to the extent that you ought willingly to receive our brothers and fellow bishops, whom the straits of captivity and of various necessities oppress, that they may be comforted and may live together with you, to be sustained in the ecclesiastical maintenances. Not indeed that the dignity of the episcopal throne should be divided through shared communion, but that they ought to receive from the Church sufficient nourishment according to its capacity. For thus we are proved to love both our neighbor in God and God in our neighbor. We grant them, to be sure, no authority in your churches, but nevertheless we earnestly exhort that they be sustained by your consolations. In the month of June, in the ninth indiction. (Cf. John the Deacon, book 1, chapter 16.)

AD UNIVERSOS EPISCOPO3 PER ILLYRICUM, Ut episcopos ab hostibus expulsos snzscipiant, eisque ne- cessaria submanialrent. Gregorius uniyersis episcopis per I!lyricum. Jobinus excellentissimns vir, filius noster, priae- posilus per Illyricum, scriptis $9#is nobis indicasse dignoscitur, ad $e sacris apicibus destinatis, jussum ſuisse episcopos quos e Ppropriis locis hostilitatis furor expulerat ad eos episeopos qui nunec nsque in locis propriis degunt pro sustentatione et stipendiis pre- senlis vile es8e jungendos. Et licet ad hoc fraterni- tatem veslram jussio principalis admonem, habemus tamen inajus his pratceptum Z#terni principis, quo at bee terribilius per2genda compellimur, ut non dico fratres et coepiscopos nostres, 8&d ips0s etiam, quos nobis contrarios patimur, cum opportunitas postulat, in conferendis $ubsidiis necessitatam carnali'um, d li- gamus. Oportet ergo vos ad hane rem et celesti pri- milus principi obedientes existere, et imperialibns eltiam jus$Sionibus consentire, qualtenus fratres coe- piscoposque nostros, quos captivitatis diversarumque necessilatum anguslize comprimwunt, debeatis co0130- landos convivendosque vobiscum in ecclesiaslicis Sn>(entationibus libenter $ascipere. Non quidem ut per communionem episcopalis throni diguitas divi- datur, 8d ut ab Eccle>ia * juxta possibilitatem suſſi- cientia debeant alimenta percipere. Sic enim et proxi mum in Deo, et Deum in proximo diligere compro- bainur. Nullam quippe eis nos in veslris Ecclesiis auctoritatem tribuimus, sed tamen eos vestris solati!s contineri summopere hortamur. Mense Þ Junii, in- dictione nona. (Cf. Joan. biac. l. 1, c. 16.) 5841 EPISTOLA XLYTL. AD PETRUM SUBDIACONUM. Ut Godiscalchi filio inopi et ceco ad viclum necessd- ria suppedite!, precipil. Gregorius Petro $ubdiacono. Divina pr.ecepla nos adiuonent diligere proximos sicut nosme: ips0s * et cum hac eos preeipiamur cha- ritate diligere, quanto magis debemus his in subs1- diis necessilatum carnalium $subvenire, ut eor:M angastias,” $i non ex omnibus, saltem aliquihus Eveisr. XLV (A4/. 45). — * In Valgatis, juzta poest- bilitatem $ufficien ti. Iu nul is Codd. inss. hes occurrerunt, $i Turn. S. Gat. et Culbert. vet. excipias, in quo tamei Uu- bium, ulrum ad presentem epi>ivlam, an ad Sequen- tem 46 isia pertineant. 509 EPISTOLARUM LIB. 1. — INDICT. IX. — EPIST, XLYI.. 510 stentaculis Sublevemus. Quoniam ergv * Godiscalchi viri dignissimi filium non solum amissione visus, sed eliam inopia victus egestatem pali conSpeximus, ne- cessarium duximus, in quayutum possibilitas Suppe- lit, ei przbere consultum. Propterea experientiz lum. presenti jussione precipimus ut annis singulis viginti quatuor modios tritici, ſabz qguoque modios duode- cim, et viniÞ decimatas viginti pro sustentativne vitze debeat ministrare, quod luis posltmodum possit rationibus imputari. la ergo fac ut prisentivm lator nullas de percipiendis Domini donis moras suslineat, et tu bene dispensate mercedis possis pariiceps in- veniri. (Cf. Joan. Diae. l. n, c. 55.)