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How disputes between a bishop and clergy are to be settled, 1199, 1200. Let the bishop provide what he promised to his clergy, 1249. In the causes of clergy, let him search out the truth in the presence of the elders of the Church, ibid. — The duties of a bishop toward monasteries. A bishop ought to keep watch over monastic discipline, 780, 1021, 1046, 1055, 1056. A bishop is gravely rebuked because he allowed a virgin to leave the monastery and return to the world, 900. A bishop ought to keep watch over the acts of monks, 922. Let him not defend vagabond monks, 884. He ought to extend protection to monasteries, 815, 921, 922, 1049, 1055, 1063, 1074. He ought to arrange the causes and interests of monasteries, 981.
He himself ought to preserve the privileges granted to monasteries, nor allow them to be burdened by his clergy, 498, 816. Let him have no jurisdiction in a monastery beyond the ordination of the elected abbot, 604, 997, 1056. Let him not, against the abbot's will, take away the goods of the monastery, public Masses, sacred vessels, or clerical rank, 604. Let him not presume to make any ordination there, however slight, ibid. See Exemptions of Monks. When a bishop had been driven by the barbarians from the monastery he was governing, another is committed to his governance, 528. — The duties of a bishop concerning causes. The causes of clergy, monks, and religious persons pertain to bishops, 667, 799, 800, 1071, 1072. Whether Gregory delegated a bishop as judge in the cause of his own clergy, 667.
A cause arising between two abbots concerning boundaries is committed to the bishop to be settled, 887. Let a bishop not be hasty in pronouncing sentences, 594, 597. If a bishop be suspect to one of the contending parties, let him himself give that party a judge, 780, 897. Let him not weary the litigants with frustrating delays, 780. In judging causes, let no consideration suspend a bishop from the zeal of equity, nor any power of persons, 904. Let him not refuse to bear hatreds for the sake of truth, ibid. Let him settle causes without envy of others, 914, 942. Let zeal for equity and the rectitude of justice kindle the bishop, 916. Let him show himself solicitous and strict between faults and innocence, ibid. One must abide by a bishop's judgement, 1063.
The penalties for bishops who judge against the canons, 1251. — A bishop who ought to correct faults and excesses, 585, 732, 904. A bishop negligent about punishing crimes is reproved, 693. Why he is bound to the correction of those who are near to him, 663. He who does not correct what is to be corrected seems to consent to the one erring, 1020. Silence is to be feared by bishops, 1051. Let him correct vices in good time, 681. Whatever is worthy of punishment ought to be brought forward not for imitation, but as an example of correction, 1010. Let priestly indignation be mixed with the sweetness of virtue, 681. Bishops are shepherds, not persecutors, 664. A new and unheard-of preaching of a bishop, which exacts faith by blows, 664. Wounds to be cut away must first be gently stroked with a soft hand, 742.
Far be it from a priestly mind to be moved by private zeal in another's cause, 812, 814. The anger of a priest, like smoke, envelops all his inner parts once seized by it, 812. Let him correct some things gently, and equanimously tolerate certain things that cannot be corrected, 1135. — The zeal of a bishop when mortality (plague) is imminent or raging, 502. Let a bishop be eloquent, distinguished by zeal, 586, 836. He ought not to be silent, but to cry out, 523. Let him keep vigilant watch over the souls committed to him, 600. Let him imitate earthly shepherds, 612. Let him observe the sacred canons, 663, 664. Let there be speech on his tongue, let there be the fervour of zeal in his mind, 840. Let his tongue be fiery, ibid. How grave an evil it is not to resist iniquity at its beginning, 715, 716.
The honour which a bishop received for preaching the truth, when necessity demands he relinquishes more securely for the sake of that same truth than he holds it, 774. It is inimical to the good morals of priests to rescind things well ordained, 905. The negligence of bishops is censured, 586, 587, 836, 900, 1021, 1233, 1236, 1263. — How harmful to a bishop is solicitude for secular affairs, 24. By the example of Moses, let them not be servants to earthly business, 25. Secular business is to be tolerated out of compassion, never sought out of love, 26. Let a bishop cease from the administration of temporal things, and many good things will follow therefrom, 640. Let him recognize that he has undertaken not the care of earthly things, but of souls, 928. He ought not to usurp those things which belong to laymen, 985.
Secular cares make a bishop cheap, 1047, 1048, 1235. Certain bishops are found occupied in vile ministrations, 1048. The causes of Christians were formerly conducted before the bishop, 491. — How necessary is the residence of bishops, 564. Of what sort a bishop's residence ought to be, 575. How it is to be procured, 640. Certain bishops, hating their dioceses, regard assiduous presence in them as a kind of exile, 573. A bishop is compelled to reside; if he does not obey, he is to be thrust into a monastery, 899. The bishops of the Gauls are forbidden to travel farther without the authority of their primate, 783, 785. The bishops of Sardinia could not cross the sea without letters of their metropolitan, unless they were going to the Apostolic See against that same metropolitan, 933.
Let not bishops proceed to the imperial court, but let (the primate) send deacons thither, 536. They could not set out to the court without letters of the primate, 975. — The translation of episcopal sees is not to be done except for weightier causes, nor without the authority of the Supreme Pontiff, 578; nor without the consent of the prince, ibid. Agnellus of Fundi, expelled by enemies, is translated to Terracina, 633. Unless necessity urged, a bishop was formerly not permitted to change his residence or see, 894. For what causes permission to change dwellings may be given to a bishop, 1262. — A bishop involved with a concubine is deposed and consigned to penance, 656. What women a bishop might be allowed to keep at home, 976, 977. — The union of bishops is to be feared by the devil, 797.
The unity of bishops in faith strengthens the unity of the Church, 830. Concord among priests is necessary, 1010. The peace of the commonwealth depends on the peace of the universal Church, 747. — The causes of bishops are to be searched out with great care and vigilance, 975. They are to be concluded without delay, 1084. How causes arising between bishops are to be concluded, 783, 784. Gregory seems to assert that the causes of bishops have been committed to himself, 752. Bishops are to be judged in synod according to the canons, 367, 612, 632; or at least by twelve bishops, 631. Such was the practice of St. Gregory, and of the Roman and Gallican Churches, 567. Emperors commit a bishop's cause to be judged by another bishop, 627; even a pecuniary one, 629.
But the examination of a criminal cause they indeed commit to a bishop, yet they reserve the judgement to themselves, ibid. A bishop is judged by the emperors together with the legates of the Roman See, 630. Gregory reserves the lesser causes of a bishop to his responsals, but the greater ones to be defined by himself, 630. Gregory orders accused bishops to come to Rome to clear themselves or be judged, 557, 630, 793, 811. He who refuses to appear is to be judged as contumacious, 793. Certain causes of bishops are summoned to Rome by Gregory, 809, 810, 839. Gregory orders those bishops who had communicated with the intruded bishop Maximus to come to him, that they may be granted absolution, 864. He permits accused bishops to present themselves to the emperor to clear themselves, 846.
The causes of bishops committed to other bishops, 821, 822, 902, 916, 936, 983, 991. Committed to secular judges together with bishops, 623, 975, 976, 1077, 1078. Whether it is fitting that a cleric, or a subdeacon, or someone inferior to bishops, be constituted judge of bishops, 617. The cause of Bishop Victor is committed to be judged by the abbot Marinianus and the notary Benenatus, 642, 643. Victor, if he be guilty, is to be thrust back into a monastery, ibid. A bishop's cause is committed to a subdeacon to be discussed and defined, 647. The cause of another bishop is committed to other bishops and one subdeacon, 961, 962. The life of the bishop and presbyters of the Church of Pesaro is committed to the deacon Castorius to be examined, 755, 765.
The execution of a sentence against a bishop is enjoined upon the chartulary (record-keeper), 983. It is permitted to bishops to go to the Apostolic See against their metropolitan, 933. A bishop is to be judged neither by the bishops of an alien council, nor by a secular judge, 1233, 1254. When the metropolitan or patriarch fails, let him be judged by the Apostolic See, 1254. — The accusation of bishops. A deacon deposed from office cannot testify against a bishop, 629. Clerics who were initiated into holy orders in order that they might desist from accusing a bishop are to be recalled to their former grade, 780. Whether it is lawful for clerics and laymen to accuse their own bishops, 780. Illegitimate accusers of a bishop are to be rejected, 846, 1254. Concerning the persons of those accusing a bishop, subtle inquiry must be made, 1251.
One who injures a bishop in the Church is to be struck with capital penalty, 1252 and following. Injuries done to bishops are avenged, 625, 630. — The correction or deposition of a bishop. A bishop is suspended for two months from the celebration of Masses on account of a woman beaten at his command, 656, 657. A bishop is to be deposed on account of simony, 612, 1199. If, being constituted in sacred orders, he chance to have a concubine, he is to be deposed, 656, 657. A bishop intruded into another's place is to be removed from all ecclesiastical ministry, 699, 1250, 1256. Those who ordained him are to be deposed, 699; or deprived of communion, let them do penance in a monastery, 1250, 1251, 1256. How one is to be regarded who, when the bishop is dead, is ordained an intruder into his place, 1250, 1251.
How those bishops are to be regarded who, out of fear of a judge, condemn and depose another bishop, 1250. A bishop deposed not by law but by (mere) authority is to be recalled from exile, and his cause examined by bishops, 631. The cause of a bishop to be deposed must be more strictly weighed, ibid. Let a bishop not be deposed except for just causes and by the unanimous consent of bishops, 631. Let him be deposed for crime alone, 1217, 1218, 1219. A bishop ought neither to be promoted by one, nor to be deposed by one, 861. For deposing a bishop let four bishops be employed, 979. One deposed from the episcopate cannot be recalled, 899. If he presumes to aspire again to the episcopate, let him be thrust into a monastery, 1202. Let him not carry off the goods of the episcopate, 1041.
It is too impious if a deposed bishop should be subject to the necessity of alms for his sustenance, 663. By the Council of Chalcedon deposed bishops retain the dignity of the episcopate and necessary support, 493. It is one thing for a bishop to be restored to his see, another to (his) honour, ibid. — Let a bishop not be substituted into another's place unless he (the former) be degraded, 522, 572, 980. See above, Deposition of a bishop. To give a successor to a living bishop is forbidden by the canons, 1022, 1023. A bishop is not to be deposed on account of infirmity, unless he himself wishes it, 1135, 1218; or unless he petitions in writing, 1136, 1219. To a bishop deposed on account of infirmity, expenses are to be furnished from the same Church, 1218.
When a bishop is sick and unable to discharge his office, what is to be done, 641, 1135, 1217, 1218, 1219. A bishop is to be ordained into the place of a deceased one as soon as possible, 550, 753, 755, 990. For a Church to be vacant beyond three months is forbidden by the canons, 861, 890. Gregory does not wish a bishop to be ordained into the place of a schismatic, unless the schismatic first be admonished to return to his Church, 935. — The goods and testaments of a bishop. When a bishop has died, an inventory of his goods and those of the Church is to be made free of charge, 639, 691, 692. The accounts of the administration of a deceased bishop's goods are to be rendered to the successor bishop, 640. Clothing property belonged not to the bishop but to the Church, 649. The goods of a deceased bishop were formerly plundered by laymen, 738.
To whom the inheritance of a deceased bishop belongs, 1105. Concerning hereditary goods, or those acquired before the episcopate, a bishop can make a will, 717, 791, 990. It is otherwise concerning goods acquired during the episcopate, which he can neither bequeath, nor alienate, nor sell, 717, 791, 1063, 1206, 1207. If while he lived a bishop diminished the goods of his Church, they ought to be repaired out of his goods, 755. The testaments of a bishop made to the detriment of the Church are void, 791, 792, 990. If a bishop have children, he cannot make a will out of goods acquired before the episcopate in favour of the Church, except saving the lawful portion of the children, 717. A bishop not content with his own stipends and receiving grain-allowance from the treasury is criticized, 771.
The bishops who at the Council of Ariminum refused to use the lodgings offered them by Augustus (the emperor) are praised, ibid. — The African bishops, with their tongues cut off, spoke in defence of the truth, 348, 349. Of them, two are deprived of this favour on account of the sin of luxury, ibid. Gregory promises a synodal letter to the patriarch of Constantinople, 490. He sends it to Anastasius of Antioch, 517. Formerly newly ordained patriarchs sent a synodal (letter) of their faith to one another and to the other patriarchs, 490, 515. Whence this custom had grown, 515, 516. What letters are called 'of peers', 507, 508, 563, 661, 830, 831. What 'letters' are, 507. The letters of Gregory, see the Works of Gregory and the Preface. Why the rich glutton (Dives) begs that his tongue be cooled with a drop of water, 61.
He is said to be condemned here not because he seized what belonged to others, but because he used his own goods unfruitfully, 67. There he more fully receives evils, because here he had not been converted through good things, 78. St. Equitius, father of many monasteries, 164. Vexed by grave temptations of the flesh, he obtains continence by prayer, ibid. He keeps monks from conversation with nuns, 165. By a word he heals a maidservant of God suffering from fever, ibid. He frees another from a demon, ibid. Not initiated into sacred orders, having received a mission from God, he preaches, 168. Cleanliness of life accorded with his zeal for preaching, ibid. With what equipage he went about preaching, ibid. Clerics complain of his preaching before the Supreme Pontiff, ibid. By whom he is summoned, 169. He cuts iron, ibid.
He wears hobnailed boots, ibid. He foretells future things, 172. The Roman Pontiff, divinely admonished, permits Equitius to preach freely, ibid. His sepulchre is vindicated from irreverence by a miracle, 173. When the name of Equitius is invoked, monks are freed from the Lombards, ibid. Equitius, a Roman citizen, hands over his son Maurus to St. Benedict, 220. A rabid horse is healed by a miracle, 197. The hedgehog (ericius) has a den among the reprobate, 48. Like a hedgehog is he who acts deceitfully, 47. Whence collectors (Erogatores) and dispensers (Erogatorii) are so called, 608, 998. Error is to be resisted at its birth, 716. Let us not hate a man on account of error, nor love error on account of a man, 772. To blush: he who is still made to blush is loved the less, 1231.
Caterpillars driven out of a garden by a miracle, 189. Hesychia (stillness), 493, 877. What it is 'to be with oneself,' 217. Etherius was not bishop of Arles, but of Lyons, 830. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. He is called bishop of Arles, 1287. The Eucharist was formerly placed upon the breast of the dead in the tomb, 255, 256. To give the Eucharist to the dead was forbidden, but not to place it upon their bodies, 256. The custom of preserving the Eucharist and of carrying it on journeys, 358. The truth of the Eucharist, 472, 1161. The Eucharist given as viaticum to the dying, 273, 397, 425. It was customary that the kiss of peace precede the reception of the Eucharist, 357. After lawful intercourse it is forbidden by the laws of the Church to approach the Eucharist, 194.
How great a bodily cleanness the Eucharist requires, 1161, 1162. The Eucharist sometimes employed for canonical purgation, 598. Eucherius, a monk of Lérins and afterwards bishop of Lyons, 1101. Who the Euchite heretics were, 802. Gregory greets Eudochia, 493, 877. Eudoxius, bishop of Germanicia, usurper of the sees of Antioch and Constantinople, 831, 883. From him the Eudoxians and Eunomians, 851. What he did on behalf of the Arian heresy, ibid. Why Gregory was unwilling to reckon this man among the heretics, 831, 832. How Gregory could say concerning the Eudoxians that the Roman Church had hitherto taken no notice of them, 833. Eudoxius refuted by the Fathers, 884, 919. Eudoxius called 'a glorious man,' 589, 912. Eugenius, a deacon, 1210.
Eugenius, a notary, 976. Eugubium, a city formerly of Umbria, 995. The bishop of Eugubium, Gaudiosus, 995. Eulogiae (blessings), 1137. Eulogia the same as benediction, 1219. The Eulogia of St. Mark, 1248. Eulogius, bishop of Alexandria, a man distinguished for piety and learning, 770, 771. Most dear to Gregory, 836. His zeal in assailing heretics, 888, 918. To his prayers Gregory attributed the conversion of the English, 918, 919. Eulogius is called 'the organ of God,' 1065. A minister of truth and a follower of Peter, 1069. He wrote against the Agnoetae, 1065, 1069. Why he did not reply to Gregory's letters against John of Constantinople, 837, 990. He requested from Gregory Eusebius's book on the deeds of the martyrs, 916. Gregory sends him gifts, 837, 888.
He asks for his prayers, 1064, 1065, 1071. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters, and 1288. Eumorphiana, or Orphiana, or Orphiaria, an island of the Tyrrhenian Sea, 544. Why concerning the monks dwelling on it a letter is written to the rector of Campania, ibid. Eumorphius dies after another's death has been foretold, 428. His vision explained, ibid., 429. Who are called eunuchs in Scripture, 83. Eupaterius, master of the soldiers, 930. Eupator, duke of Sardinia, 1191. When a son has been begotten by Euplus (a bishop) before his ordination, the goods of the mother and father are ordered to be restored to him, 717. Euplus, a contractor, 537. Euphemius, to escape prosecution, receives holy orders, 780. Wherefore he is perpetually deposed from such an order, ibid. Euria, a city of Epirus, 1276. John, bishop of Euria, 1271.
The lector, Peter, ibid. The calamity of Europe in Gregory's time, 718. Eusanius, bishop of Agrigentum, 717. When Eusanius has lapsed, why all his goods ought to remain to the Church, ibid. Eusebia, daughter of the patrician lady Rusticiana, 911, 1239, 1240. Gregory greets her, 589, 724. Eusebius, an abbot, is excommunicated by the bishop of Syracuse, 594, 597. The bishop, at Gregory's urging, restores to the abbot favor and communion, 599. Because he had rejected both, Eusebius is charged with pride, ibid. Gregory orders that a hundred gold solidi be given to him, 596, 599. Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, published a twofold book on the acts of the martyrs, 918. The former is lost, ibid. At Rome in Gregory's time there were no copies of this book, 916.
Eusebius, bishop of Thessalonica, 898, 983. He is urged to foster peace, 1073 and following. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Eutherius is called 'a man of magnificent memory,' a title of honor which does not befit a bishop, 497, 498. Why Euthymius surnamed St. Gregory 'the Dialogist,' 107. Eutychius, bishop of Tyndaris, 672. He is urged to persevere in converting the worshippers of idols, ibid. Eutychius, a prefect, 1205. St. Euthycius, a man of holy conversation in the province of Nursia, 308. His zeal for leading souls to God, ibid. He is elected abbot, ibid. His miracles after death, 313. Many churches in Italy consecrated under his name, 313.
The Gospel-book was formerly customarily hung about the neck among Christians for the sake of protection and safekeeping, 520, 1272. And to place it at the head, ibid. The Gospel was placed in the midst in judgments, 906, 907, 961. See Judgment. The Gospel was formerly read by lectors in the Church, 1289. To swear by the four Gospels was formerly lawful, 1300. See Oath. Evangelus, a captive deacon, is ordered to be ransomed at the Church's expense, 634. His daughter having been violated by Felix, 651, 635. The island of Evasa, now called Ivica (Ibiza), 431, 432. Eventius, deacon of Milan, 972. What it is to exact the canon-payment, 420. To pay their exactions the Corsicans sold their own sons, 768. Exactions made with sin do not profit, 769.
Gregory forbids the tenant-farmers of the Church to be harassed by unjust exactions, 534, 535. Unjust exactions upon the Church's tenants should not accrue to the Church's advantage, 536. What an exarch is, and what his dignity, 521. Whether the exarch and the prefect of Italy were the same, ibid. Longinus was the first to obtain the name of exarch, 521. Why he was called the Exarch of Ravenna, ibid. The exarchs sent into Italy by Maurice, through their impotence and avarice, inflicted greater harm upon the Italians than the enemy themselves, 1238. Among bishops, who were formerly called exarchs, 548. Monks also had their own exarchs, ibid. Who are said 'to go beyond bounds,' 1079. 'Excellency,' a title of honor which Gregory uses toward kings, queens, exarchs.
and to other men of the highest dignity, 506, 686, 712, 999, 1123, and elsewhere throughout. To whom excommunication pertains, 581. That excommunication of faults should not be employed lightly, 613. Excommunication is to be imposed after a second and third admonition, 610. Upon the innocent the penalty of excommunication is not to be inflicted, 642. Unjust excommunication does not bind, ibid. That those excommunicated by one bishop are to be shunned by all others everywhere on earth is an ancient institution, 707. One must not communicate with the excommunicated, 813, 814. He who, forbidden from communion, received the Eucharist, was smitten with anathema and separated from the body of the Church, 817.
Those whom Gregory deprived of communion, he did not wish to be deprived of viaticum if the peril of death pressed upon them, 899, 926, 980. It is provided that presbyters should not absolve monks from excommunication, 935. An 'ex-consul' is called either one who had held the consulship, or one who had been created ex-consul by a diploma, 489, 520, 557. It was a bare name of honor, 620. Who the Count of the Excubitors was, 520, 1044. 'To be excused on no occasion' means to have no occasion of excuse, 972. 'To copy' (exemplare) is to transcribe from the original, 507. The just owe to their neighbor an example of virtue, 95, 183. Examples move more than words, 152. How useful are the examples of the saints, 153. Let the pastor follow the examples of the saints, 508. The chief cause of exemptions was the oppression of subjects, 498.
凡被額我略剝奪共融者，若死亡的危險逼近他們，他不願他們被剝奪臨終聖糧，899、926、980。有明文規定司鐸不得為修士解除絕罰，935。「卸任執政官」（ex-consul）指曾任執政官之人，或藉詔書被封為卸任執政官之人，489、520、557。這是一個空洞的榮銜，620。禁衛軍伯爵（Count of the Excubitors）為何人，520、1044。「無論何時皆不得推諉」意即毫無推諉的藉口，972。「謄錄」（exemplare）即從原本抄寫，507。義人當給予鄰人德行的榜樣，95、183。榜樣比言語更能感動人，152。聖人的榜樣何等有益，153。願牧者效法聖人的榜樣，508。豁免的主要原因乃是對屬下的壓迫，498。
See Monks. 'To exhibit' (exhibere), that is, to present oneself or another in person, 1002. Exhilaratus, bishop of Sicily, 1262. Exhilaratus, 726. He is called Secundicerius, 880. Exhilaratus, carrying two wooden vessels to St. Benedict, hid one, 243. What befell him thereby, ibid. 'sumptus, expensa, reditus' (outlay, expense, revenue), 106. 'Exlex' (outlaw), that is, one who will not obey the laws, 929. 'Your Experience' (Experientia), a title by which Gregory addresses the subdeacon rectors of the patrimony, 497, 511, 653. Notaries, 1056, 1061, and elsewhere throughout. 'Explere' means to unfold (explicare), 677. Who is called 'ex-prefect' (expraefectus), 527. 'In execution' (in exsecutione), that is, in carrying out commands, 789. He is called an 'executor' (exsecutor) who carries out another's commands, 169, 897.
Exile was formerly decreed by ecclesiastical judgment against clerics, 1172. Now it pertains to the royal power, 1173. Exsuperantius, a bishop, 1320. A foreign handmaid of God, to whom Gregory orders a pension to be assigned, or the donation which she made to be restored, 539. Strangers are to be gently drawn to the faith, 1226. Hezekiah, showing to foreigners the baskets of spices, why he incurred the wrath of God, 5. Ezekiel represents the person of prelates, 29, 31. Why Ezekiel is called 'son of man' before he is led to contemplate heavenly things, 101, 102. Fabius, bishop of Fermo, predecessor of Passivus, 913. The Face. What it is to stand before the face of God, 82. God admonished the human race to His face before sin, 82.
But the man of God turned his back to the face by sinning, ibid. 'Facio.' 'He made himself' (se fecit), that is, he went, he departed, 609. 'Facio' and 'facesso' mean the same thing, ibid. Facundus, bishop of Hermiane, wrote to Justinian concerning the Three Chapters, 614. John, bishop of the city of Falerio, 1291. A good reputation is a sweet odor, 924. In time of famine God comes to the aid of the monastery of St. Benedict, 248. Fantinus, defender and rector of the patrimony of Palermo, 974. Defender of Naples, 1030. He was called Faustinus, 911. Why the will of a monk in favor of Fantinus was valid, but the will of Sirica in favor of a hospice was not, 539. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Fanum. In Italy there are very many cities of this name, 609.
Fanum Fortunae, or Fanum simply so called, an episcopal city in Umbria, ibid., 610, 827. Bishops of Fanum: Leo, 826. Fortunatus, 839. Fanum. See Temple. Fasagnates, a patrician, at what time he governed Armenia, 493. Fausiana. See Phausiana. St. Faustinus the martyr orders the patrician Valerian, a man of slippery life, to be carried out of his church for burial, 460. Faustinus, a soldier of the Church of Meria, 886. It is complained by his father that certain properties belonging to another's right were left to the Church of Messina, 896. Faustus, from praetor become Chancellor, 555, 1121, 1122. Faustus, a magnificent man, 1057. Faustus, son of Constantius the defender, 951. The favor of princes, how greatly it is acquired by labors and possessed with anxieties, 875.
Human favors are like smoke, 1066. No one can please both God and wicked men, ibid. A fever-stricken girl healed by a word, 165. Felicianus, a presbyter, 571. Felicissimus, deacon of the Church of Langres, 566. St. Felix of Nola rented three meager acres of land which he cultivated with his own hand, sinning against the words but not the sense of the canons, 606. Pope Felix III, great-great-grandfather of St. Gregory, 397. He admonishes his aunt of her impending death in a vision, 397. Felix, bishop of Acropolis, to whom the visitation of three churches is enjoined, 605. Felix, bishop of Messina, 528. He consults Gregory on many matters, 1274. Gregory answers him, 1276. This reply is ascribed to St. Gregory, 1275. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters.