Letter 2008: It has been brought to my attention that a cleric who is ill has been denied the customary stipends that belong to...

To Bishop Candidus. That the customary stipends are not to be denied to an ailing cleric. Gregory to Candidus, bishop, concerning the old city. Since, when corporal chastisement befalls a man, it is not known whether God's judgment in this matter is for purgation or for punishment, no affliction ought to be added by us to those who have been scourged [...], lest we, by the offense of [adding to] their fault, which God forbid, [aggravate the wound]. Since [the cleric], by reason of this chastisement which he endures, asserts that the customary benefits owed to him are denied by your Church, we therefore exhort your Fraternity by the present letter that this sickness ought in no way to hinder him from receiving the things that are customary; for, as you know, among those serving in various offices in the Church different [provisions] are often [made]. [...] [The intervening passage here consists of the editor's marginal notes and citations - to Gratian, to Innocent II's decretal on the translation of a bishop, to Josephus (Antiquities, book 1) on greater causes among the Jews, to Gregory's earlier commission of his vicariate in Sicily first to the subdeacon Peter and then to Maximianus, and to Justinian's Code on clerics performing the night, morning, and evening offices - and is not part of Gregory's letter. The Josephus passage cited there reads: "But if the judges should not know how to pronounce on a matter brought before them, as sometimes happens, let them refer the whole cause to the holy city; then indeed let the high priest and the prophet, together with the council, decree what shall seem best." These are editorial citations, not the letter's text.] [...] from that very small amount which can accrue to the Church, let your Fraternity, in contemplation of the divine judgment, not cease to provide to the ailing man, so that in the administration of this matter you may be seen rather to convert what is customary into almsgiving by paying it out.

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