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Gregorius Mariniano episcopo Ravennae. Fraternitatis vestrae epistola nuntiante, comperiDIUS a Corneliensis Ecclesiae filios assidua 890 supplicatione b in loco lapsi quondam episcopi sui consecrandum sibi a vobis poscere sacerdotem, aTque vos quid de ea re fieri debeat dubitare, et nostrum evidens exspectare mandatum. Pslquam ergo (Grat. disl. 50, c. 11) quemquam criminaliter abscedentem in locum de quo lapsus est nulla permittit ratio revocari, et ultra tres menses Ecclesiam vacare pontifice statuta sacrorum canonum non permittunt, ne, cadente pastore, dominicum gregem antiquus, quod absit, hostis insidiando dilaniet, fraterni.
Gregory to Marinianus, bishop of Ravenna. From the report of your Fraternity's letter, we have learned that the sons of the Church of Cornelii, with assiduous supplication, are asking of you a priest to be consecrated for them in the place of their bishop who once lapsed; and that you are in doubt as to what ought to be done in this matter, and await our clear instruction. Since therefore no reason permits one who has criminally withdrawn to be recalled to the place from which he lapsed, and since the statutes of the sacred canons do not permit a church to be vacant of a pontiff beyond three months—lest, the shepherd having fallen, the ancient enemy, which God forbid, by lying in wait tear the Lord's flock—your Fraternity
額我略致拉溫納主教瑪利尼亞諾（Marinianus）。從您弟兄之情來信的報告中，我們得知科爾內利（Cornelii）教會的眾子，正以不斷的祈求向您懇請一位司鐸，好在他們那位曾經墮落的主教之位上為他們祝聖；並且您對此事該當如何處理猶疑不決，等候我們明確的指示。因此，既然無論如何都不容一個因犯罪而退離的人被召回他所墮落的職位，又既然神聖教規的規章不許一個教會空缺牧首超過三個月——免得牧人一旦跌倒，那古蛇仇敵（但願不致如此）便伺機撕裂主的羊群——您的弟兄之情
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las vestra deprecationi eorum consentire, et loco lapsi debet episcopum ordinare. Nam dum non pctentes eos etiam ante vestris ad hoc dehueratis adhortationibus admonere, postulantes nulla vos oportet excusatione differre, quia Ecclesia Dei diu viduata proprio episcopo remanere non debet.
ought to consent to their petition, and to ordain a bishop in the place of the one who lapsed. For since, though they were not petitioning, you ought even before this to have admonished them to this by your exhortations, now that they are asking, it behooves you to defer them by no excuse, because the Church of God, long widowed, ought not to remain without its own bishop.
理當應允他們的請求，並在那墮落者之位上祝聖一位主教。因為，既然即便他們尚未請求，您本當在此之先就以您的勸勉督促他們如此行，那麼如今他們既已懇求，您就不當以任何藉口拖延他們，因為天主的教會既久已守寡，就不當繼續沒有它自己的主教。