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Felix, bishop of Pesaro, 826. Gregory forbids him to celebrate public Masses in a monastery, ibid. Felix, bishop of Porto, 947, 1288, 1291. Sprung from the province of the Sabines, 460. From him Gregory had learned many things which he relates in the Dialogues, ibid., 464. To him Gregory gives John, a servant of ecclesiastical law, 1110. Felix, bishop of Sardica, refusing to obey his primate, is reproved, 735, 736. Felix, bishop of Siponto, 546. To him is entrusted the visitation of the Church of Canosa, ibid. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Felix, a bishop, sent into Sardinia by Gregory to convert the Barbaricini, 702, 703. He is ordered to introduce monks into a monastery founded by Theodosius, 727, 728.
Felix, a deacon returned from schism to the Church, is commended by St. Gregory to the bishop of Syracuse, 694, 695. Felix, a subdeacon, rector of the patrimony of Appia, 976, 1273. Felix, a defender, 633. Felix, an abbot, to whom Gregory orders fifteen hundred pounds of lead to be paid out, 544, 454. Felix, provost of the monastery of Fondi, 161. Felix, a nobleman in the province of Nursia, 168. Felix, a man of consular rank, Chartulary, is commended by St. Gregory to Maximian of Syracuse, 587. A magnificent man in Sicily, 941, 942, 935. He complains of John, bishop of Syracuse, 959, 960. Felix, husband of the lady Viviana, 528. Felix, contractor of the lady Campana, 539. Felix of Orticellum, 627. Felix, nephew of Felix bishop of Siponto, whether he was a cleric, 654.
He is ordered either to marry the daughter of the deacon whom he had violated, or to have her chastised in a monastery, 634, 635. Felix, a married man, made heir by Rustica, a woman, 946. Which women are to be admonished, 35. The Thigh. What it is to set a sword upon the thigh, 90. Ferentia, a city in Etruria, to which Viterbo succeeded in the episcopal see, 189. Martianus, bishop of Ferentia, 1291. Ferentinum, an episcopal city of Latium, 367. Bishops of Ferentinum: Boniface, 184 and following. Redemptus, 368. Luminosus, 1291. Ferocinatus bequeaths certain things to the Roman Church, 1105. What iron signifies, 32. Who is made 'a firebrand in the furnace,' 53. Iron returned from the depth of the water, 224. Festus, bishop of the city of Capua, despised by his own on account of avarice, 618.
Fiesole, a city formerly renowned in Tuscany, 1075. Stench signifies carnal concupiscence, 436. A golden clasp, a gift of great price which the Emperors bestowed, 896. The Fig-tree. What it is 'to occupy the ground' as a fig-tree without fruit, 67. What the fig-tree on which Christ sought fruit signifies, 1069. Ficulum or Ficocle, a city in Italy, 754. Severus, bishop of Ficulum, 548. What a surety (fidejussor) is, 1108. Fidentia, a woman, 950. The faithful are members of one body, 46. Faith. That cannot be believed which can be seen, 381. Things visible are seen through things invisible, ibid. Faith is to be urged, not extorted, 524. From those estranged from the faith one ought to draw them by admonishing and persuading, 525.
Pagans and Jews are either to be compelled or to be enticed, not by persuasions only, but by indirect force, 525, 703, 734. See Jews. Gregory orders that country-folk in their idolatry be assembled together, 704. The necessity of faith, 373. Just as branches wither without the strength of the root, so good works severed from faith are nothing, 718, 967. Our faith does not rest upon new revelations, 822. How many strayed from the faith in the fifth and sixth centuries, 114. That confession of faith is to be received which is made not by force but by spontaneous will, 842. The unbeliever does not live without faith, 373. We believe many things with certainty which cannot be seen, 380. No one can be saved among those who hold the faith of Christ yet do not have the life of faith, 861.
He loses the faith who consents to the title 'universal,' 747. Great security's confidence is the simplicity of action, 48. Confidence and security concerning one's own merits are corruptions of the soul, 100. The laity are called 'children of the Church,' 686. See Layman. Those are called 'legitimate children' who are born of lawful wedlock, 801. Philoxenus, a magnificent man, 1046. The End. Toward the end, whether willing or unwilling, we daily tend, 875. Firminus, bishop of Trieste, 1203. Gregory congratulates him on his return from schism, ibid. He fortifies the same against temptations, 1204. And promises him aid, ibid. Firminus suffers much from the schismatics, 1240. He is commended to the exarch Smaragdus, 1241.
That abjuration of heresy which is found among Gregory's Letters seems to belong to this same Firminus, 1300. Fermo, a city in Italy, 944. Bishops of Fermo: Fabius, 943. Passivus, 1187, 1188. 'Fiscalia' are called tributes, 687, 688. The Fisc (treasury). The goods of debtors of the fisc were also anciently, with the mark of the prince affixed, claimed to be kept for it, 1119. Those who fear the scourges of God, and therefore live innocently, how they are to be admonished, 52. The scourges of God are mitigated by mercy, 385. From the scourges of Italy it is not rightly inferred that she has sinned, 615. The scourged are recalled to penitence, 51. He is loved by God who deserves to endure His scourge, 615. God's scourges and blows, with what spirit they are to be received, 1114 and following.
Scourges prove that we are not forsaken by God, ibid. Amid scourges, what consolation is easy, 1028. For those placed amid scourges to commit deeds worthy of scourges is to be proud against Him who strikes, 1088. By what reasoning those who are struck with scourges are to be consoled, 1087, 1088. See Adversity, Affliction, Tribulation. Public scourging was formerly decreed by ecclesiastical judgments against clerics, now forbidden, 1172. The flame, in the case of the three young men, at one and the same time had power for solace and had not power for torment, 324. Flavius, bishop of Reims, 1288. What it is 'to weep without weeping,' 79. Gregory grants forever to the abbess Fora a house with its garden for constructing a monastery, 636.
Florentinus, archdeacon of Ancona, elected bishop, 1269. Florentinus or Florentius, deacon of the Church of Ravenna, 819, 1096. He is elected to the bishopric of Ancona, 1269. Florentinus, servant of God, is ordered to restore six ounces to the monastery of St. Lucy at Syracuse, 626. Florentius, bishop of Epidaurus. The cause of his unjust deposition to be examined in synod, 631, 632. It is committed to Sabinianus, bishop of Zara, to be discussed, 902. Florentius, presbyter of the Church of St. Lawrence at Rome, 420. Florentius, a presbyter, grandfather of Florentius the subdeacon, 225. His hatred and envy toward St. Benedict, ibid. The same man's scheme to destroy the souls of the monks, 228. He pays the penalty of his malice, ibid.
Florentius, a subdeacon elected bishop by the Neapolitans, flees, 635. Florentius, a religious man in the province of Nursia, 308. A bear ministers to him, 309. He curses the perverse monks on account of the slain bear, and immediately divine vengeance struck them down, ibid. He mourns their death, ibid. He purges the wilderness of a serpent more usefully by prayer, 312. He is venerated at Fuldis among the patrons of the Church, 313. Florianus, 623. Floridus, bishop of Tivoli, a man who loved truth and was distinguished for sanctity, 300, 356. Florus, master of the Church of Lyons, proves that the fire of hell is corporeal, 111. Florus, a magnificent man, 1262. Inundations of rivers stilled by miracle, 293, 296. What it is 'to divert the springs abroad,' 74. What a hole in the wall signifies, 30.
What 'forms' (formae) are, 1196. Who the Count of the Forms was, ibid. Formiae, a city in Italy, 495. The Church of Formiae is united to that of Minturno, ibid. Both at length were transferred to Gaeta together with the body of St. Erasmus, ibid. The visitation of the Church of Formiae is committed to Agnellus, bishop of Terracina, 862. Bishops of Formiae: Bacauda, 490, 495. See his entry. Albinus, 947. Paul reckons fornication among the more atrocious crimes, 81. For what cause of fornication spouses may be separated, 1062. How one is to deal with a woman who, on suspicion of fornication, departed from her husband and afterwards returned to him, ibid. Whether on account of fornication it is lawful for a husband to dismiss his wife, 1138. Fortuna, a Jewess converted to the faith, 714. Fortunatus, bishop of Fano, 859.
「formae」（憑證）為何物，1196。憑證伯爵（Count of the Forms）為何人，同上。福爾米亞（Formiae），義大利之城，495。福爾米亞教會與明圖爾諾教會合併，同上。二者最終連同聖厄拉斯莫的遺體一同遷至加埃塔，同上。福爾米亞教會的視察託付於特拉奇納主教阿聶盧斯，862。福爾米亞的主教：巴考達，490、495。參見其條目。阿爾比努斯，947。保祿將姦淫列於更兇惡的罪行之中，81。為何等姦淫之因夫妻可以分離，1062。當如何處理一因姦淫嫌疑而離開丈夫、後又回到他身邊的婦人，同上。是否可因姦淫之故容許丈夫休妻，1138。福爾圖納（Fortuna），一位歸信信德的猶太女子，714。福爾圖納圖斯，法諾主教，859。
Fortunatus, bishop of Naples, elected after the deposition of Demetrius, 673. He subscribed to the Roman Council, ibid., 1288, 1291. How he ought to conduct himself in his church, 672. His zeal for Christian slaves is praised, 933. To him is enjoined the visitation of the Church of Misenum, 988, 989. He is censured because through his fault the Neapolitans were at variance with one another, 1005. His negligence toward the monasteries is reproved, 1056. Very many matters pertaining to the governance of the Church are enjoined upon him by Gregory. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Fortunatus, bishop of Todi, very powerful in driving out malignant spirits, 192, 193, 196. He restores sight to a blind man by the sign of the cross, 196. He heals a rabid horse by the sign of the cross, 197.
He recalls a dead man to life, 201. He is not despised with impunity by a Goth, 197. The Goth, repenting and imploring Fortunatus's mercy, is healed when sprinkled with holy water, 200. Many miracles wrought at the tomb of Fortunatus, 200. Fortunatus, abbot of the monastery called the Bath of Cicero, 164, 173, 201. Fortunatus, abbot of the monastery of Cesena, unjustly deposed, to be restored, 1264. Fortunatus, a nobleman, 185, 188. Fortunatus is maintained at the table of the Church of Milan for many years, 720. His case to be settled at Rome, 730, 731. Fortunatus to be removed from the office of defender, 979. What the digging of the altar signifies, 43. Why it was of one cubit, ibid. The bandage binds up the fracture, when discipline represses the fault, 23.
Why the Franks were sometimes called Germans, 918, 920. The kings of the Franks are deservedly called 'Most Christian,' 795. No king of France has hitherto swerved from the orthodox faith, ibid. Formerly the kings of France gloried in this title, 'Illustrious Man,' 519. A brother deceased without children, leaving a wife, what it signifies, 7. Who the surviving brother is who refuses to take the deceased's wife, ibid. Two brothers can contract marriage with two sisters, 1153. St. Frigidianus, bishop of Lucca, a man of wondrous virtue, 293. He diverted a river from its own channel by prayer and command, ibid. He is called 'lukewarm' who neither begins nor completes the good to be accomplished, 94. Why each is required to be either cold or hot, ibid. Who the Frontinianists were, 1067.
What it signifies to receive grain from the Lord, 73. What it is to hide grain, 74. What the grain-canon (frumentarius canon) is, 488. The exactions of grain, 533. Fruniscendus, a debtor of the Church of Otranto, to be compelled to pay, 1004. To flee. To be forbidden to flee in winter or on the Sabbath, what it is, 523. St. Fulgentius sometimes signed his letters with this inscription, 'servant of the servants,' etc., 481. St. Fulgentius, bishop of Utriculum, 300. Enclosed within a circle by order of Totila, he is marvelously freed, ibid. How smoke denotes the felicity of the wicked, 492. Fondi, an episcopal city in Latium, 133, 289, 633, 634. Bishops of Fondi: Andreas, 289. Agnellus, 634, 947, 1291. A thief detected by the help of a serpent, 161.
Thieves recalled from theft by a miracle, 304, 305, 329. The penalty of thieves, 1152. How things stolen from churches are to be restored, 1153. How theft in a monk was punished, 1124. Furcus, bishop of Capua, who died at Rome, 737, 738, 760. Fuscus, abbot of a monastery at Naples, obtains very many things for his monastery, 1049, 1050 and following. Fuscus, a chief physician (archiater), 554. The dying often foreknow the future by revelation, 409, 413. St. Gabinus. See Gavinus. Gairaldus, abbot of St. Medard of Soissons, 1285. Galaad (Gilead) is interpreted 'heap of testimony,' 72. By Gilead the Church is expressed, ibid. Who are the pregnant ones of Gilead, ibid. St. Galla, daughter of the consul Symmachus, 392. She is believed to be the same to whom St. Fulgentius wrote, ibid.
A widow, she refused a second marriage, ibid. She embraced the monastic life, ibid. She is admonished by blessed Peter of her approaching death and that of her two sisters, ibid. Galla, a widow, 428. Why Gaul is called Germania, 781, 782. Why the Gallican Church is the offspring of the Roman, 781. The rectors of the province of Arles and Marseilles are called 'patricians of the Gauls,' 493. Whether the legation of the Gauls on behalf of the holy see was always committed to the bishops of Arles, 781. What the kingdom of Gaul was like under Childebert, 783. The kings of Gaul, see Franks. Gallipolis or Callipolis, an episcopal city of Calabria, 637, 808. The Church of Gallipoli is committed to Peter, bishop of Otranto, for visitation, 807. See Callipolis.
A cock uttering high crowings in the deep of night, what it signifies, 100. A cock beating its wings before it crows and striking itself thereby, what it signifies, ibid. Garnerus, a regular canon of St. Victor of Paris, in what year he lived, 110. He composed a work called Gregorianum, 110. To Gaudentius, bishop of Nola, is committed the visitation of the Church of Capua, 737. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Gaudentius, a presbyter, 184. To Gaudiosus, bishop of Eugubium, is enjoined the visitation of the Church of Tadinum, 995, 996. Gaudiosus, a presbyter, 800. Gaudiosus, master of the soldiers in Africa, 560. His sincerity of mind is praised, ibid. And Hilarius, rector of the patrimony, is commended to him, 561.
Gaudiosus, primicerius and representative (responsalis) of the province of Ravenna, deceased, 667. Gaudiosus, a defender, 956. A certain Gaudiosus complained before Gregory of violence done to him by the agent (actionarius) of the Roman Church, 547. What the disciples' joy of truth ought to be, 1110. What it is 'to rejoice without rejoicing,' 79. Gavinus and Luxurius in Sardinia, 931. St. Gavinus, martyr at Torres in Sardinia, 931. The fire of Gehenna is corporeal, 417. It is one fire, but it does not torment all sinners in one manner, 448. It will torment the reprobate without end, 449. Gelasius, a subdeacon who had lapsed, 596. 'Genium' sometimes signifies adornment, splendor, honor, or privilege, 914. 'Genius' anciently was wont to signify a demon, 1300. Whether it was lawful to swear by one's genius, ibid.
Gennadius, patrician and exarch of Africa, 550, 558, 841. On account of his victories, see the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Gennadius Scholarius, patriarch of Constantinople, made use in the Council of Florence, against the Greeks, of the books of Gregory's Dialogues, 104. Why the Vandal Arian prince is called 'gentile' (heathen), 280. 'To write with a gentle hand,' 1088. Genoa, a most renowned city of Liguria, 461, 646. George, a presbyter of Constantinople, 847, 833. His error concerning the damned freed from hell by Christ, 861. George, prefect of Italy, 527. A certain George is commended to Donus, bishop of Messina, 823. The ancient Church of St. George, 1173, 1174. Germania. What is to be understood by 'the parts of Germany,' 781. Lugdunensian Germania, 782, 920.
Germanus, bishop of Capua, whose soul St. Benedict saw carried into heaven by the angels, 269. Gerontius, a monk of the Gregorian monastery, is made certain in a vision concerning his own death and that of his brethren, 409, 412. He frees the deacon Paschasius from purgatory by his prayers, 444, 445. 'Gerontocomia' are hospices for the aged, 1091. By whom the gerontocomium on Mount Sinai was constructed, 1092. Whether 'gesta' and 'facta' (deeds and acts) differ, 577. What a hump (gibbus) signifies, 11. What it is for giants to groan under the waters, 849. Gildas, surnamed 'the Wise,' a writer, 1038. What it is 'to restrain the sword from blood,' 75. What it is to place a sword upon the thigh, 90. 'Bound to the glebe,' or subject to the body, and of servile condition, 757.
'Glory to God in the highest,' a hymn employed in prosperous matters and in thanksgivings, 764, 765, 1029, 1109, 1111, 1237, 1238. The man greedy of vain and empty glory is depicted, 9. Those lie prostrate in God's eyes who swell before others through the appetite for vain glory, 172. He is truly glorious who glories not in temporal power but in the passion of Christ, 850. The fleeting glory of the world is wont to hinder zeal for eternal life, 1077. 'Your Glory' (Gloria vestra), a title of honor by which Gregory addresses kings and emperors, 583, 684. Masters of the soldiers, 909, 985, 988, 998. Patricians, 834, 1025. Prefects, 1068. Advocates or scholastics, 721. Domestics, 1081, 1083. Distributors (erogatores), 1032, 1033. Illustrious women, 1077, 1088. A subdeacon, 1274.
And by which Gregory himself is addressed by King Reccared, 978. Gloriosa, wife of Andreas the scholastic, 952. Gloriosus, bishop of Ostia, 947, 1288. Godiscalchus, a most worthy man, 511. Godiscalcus, duke of Campania, 1048. Gordia or Gurdia, sister of Maurice, who was given in marriage to Philip, duke of the East, 877. Gorgona or Gorgonia, an island of the Tyrrhenian Sea, 545, 546, 729. The abbot Orosius is committed with the visitation of the monks dwelling there, 546. The Goths. Why for the Goths the Vandals are sometimes taken, 115. By 'the kings of the nations' are understood the kings of the Goths who occupied part of the Gauls, 831. The Goths try in vain to burn the monk Benedict, 324. Grado, an island, to which Severus of Aquileia transferred his see, 502, 1240.
A higher rank will not be approved before God, but the merit of one's life, 562. To what degree of generation the prohibited degrees in contracting marriage extend, 1154 and following, 1275, 1277 and following, 1279. What Roman law permits concerning this matter, 1153, 1154. The Greek schismatics corrupted the passage of Gregory's Dialogues where the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Son is treated, 118, 275. Gregory complains that he lacks interpreters of the Greek tongue, 1071. That it may not be lawful for a bishop to teach grammar, 1140, 1141. The necessity of grace for patiently enduring the scourges of God, 185. The gifts of God go before every work of God, and from the subsequent work the gifts themselves increase, 168.
His grace is to be sought, without whom there is nowhere without fault, with whom there is nowhere without justice, 849. We ought so to presume upon grace that we be not negligent in work or in prayer, 855. Without God's help our enemy cannot be conquered, 790. Without divine grace, human love harms us all the more, 957. Without the grace of divine mercy no one can pant after eternal things, 1077. Human grace (favor). See Favor. Gratianus or Gratiosus, bishop of Nomentum, 638, 1291. Gratianus, deacon of the Church of Venafro, to be incardinated into that of Naples, 799. Gratiosa, an abbess, 673. Gratiosus, a subdeacon, 636. Gratiosus, a notary, 1046. Gravinianus, a deacon, 602. Gregoria, 589.
Gregoria, chamberlain of the Empress, asks a difficult and useless thing of St. Gregory, 869. Gregoria, a Roman virgin and nun, 301. — Gregory flees the pontificate by going into hiding, 1, 517, 849. How greatly he shrank from the pontificate, 489, 516, 520. In what spirit he undertook the pontificate, 515, 517, 521, 849. He compares secular affairs to the storms of the sea, but the occupations of the solitary life to the shore, 152. He laments the peace of solitude, lost through his promotion to the pontificate, 149, 152, 488, 491, 492, 516, 531, 1031, 1027. He was cast down from the delight of contemplation, 491, 492, 493. And almost separated from the love of God, 519. Yet he does not neglect the hierarchical functions, 491. He complains that he loves his own storm-tossed life in the pontificate, 531.
He calls the priesthood a heavy burden, 610. Newly ordained, he writes synodical letters to the other patriarchs, 490, 517. And to the prelates of the principal sees, 517, 541. How many years he lived in the pontificate, 478. In what sense he says he is not of the Romans, 520. — Gregory professes that, just as he venerates the four books of the Gospel, so he venerates the four earlier councils, 615, 632. He likewise venerates also the fifth council, 515, 957. He professes to guard inviolate the faith of the Council of Chalcedon, 683. While holding the urban prefecture, he subscribed to the sworn undertaking concerning the condemnation of the Three Chapters, 682. What he held concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, 118. His veneration toward the holy Fathers, 1065.
— How greatly Gregory feared negligence in the care of souls, 500, 522. How solicitous he was for the salvation of Venantius, a patrician and former monk, 523ff. Tenacious of the ancient and ecclesiastical discipline, 529, 721, 793, 915, 916. Gregory's concern for the observance of the canons, 529, 663, 664, 686, 701, 713. He rejoices over a bishop's conversion to a better way of life, 609. He is grievously afflicted by another's fault, 613. He was tormented by the fault of others, and gladdened by good conduct, 928. He judges that the correction of bishops pertains to himself, 617. He says he lives if the bishops stand firm in the Lord, 626. He refutes an imperial law as contrary to the divine one, 676, 677, 678. In the case of John of Constantinople.
He says he fears nothing but the almighty Lord, 746. He says he is more ready to die than to suffer the Church of blessed Peter to degenerate in his own days, 725. He says those gifts are pleasing to him which have been seasoned with the sweetness of a priestly and holy manner of life, 831. He believes the care of all the Churches has been laid upon him, 865. He desires all to be great, whose honor, however, does not detract from the honor of God, 879. In those things which he knows to harm bishops, he burns, 1022. He strives to inspire his zeal against the Donatists in a bishop, 612. Gregory's zeal for recalling schismatics to the Church, 608, 614, 615ff., 652, 683, 684, 778. Against the attempts of heretics he implores the aid of the magnates, 559. He groans that the heresy of the Donatists is spreading, 612.
What he did for the conversion of heretics and Jews, see Agnoetae, Manichaeans, Photinians, Jews. Solicitous for calling idolaters to the faith, 701, 702, 703. Gregory's solicitude concerning souls straying from the truth, 501. — Gregory willed that concerning Churches deprived of pastors nothing be done without the knowledge of their proper bishop, 529. Gregory's solicitude concerning other dioceses, 685. He admonishes a bishop that, on the occasion of a plague, he exhort the peoples to penance and faith, 569, 570. He takes it ill that bishops be despised by their own clergy, 704. How he conducted himself toward bishops unjustly deposed, 628, 630, 631, 632, 665. How toward bishops afflicted with injury, 623, 624, 625, 839.
How he came to the aid of bishops driven out by enemies, 540, 634, 638. How he behaved toward bishops or presbyters who were delinquent or disobedient, 656, 657, 689, 735, 736, 739, 756. What sort he was toward the negligent, 693, 900. What sort toward bishops who repented, 991, 992. He reproves a bishop who sought human praise from good works, 626. He calls bishops brothers, not indeed sons, 1047. — Gregory calls himself a defender of the goods of the poor, 1059. And a steward, 1232. See Patrimony. His various almsgivings, 502, 506, 538, 541, 546, 548, 549, 550, 574, 596, 599, 707, 756, 793, 872, 956, 1062. He comes to the aid of poor bishops, 554, 1211.
To a bishop who had not the means to feed the poor, he pays out two thousand measures of wheat, 794. He sends garments for the baptizing of the needy, 893. For the repair of Churches he orders twenty solidi to be given, 1075. On behalf of a merchant who had suffered loss, lest the money promised by him be exacted, he bids a bishop and a subdeacon intervene, 955, 956. He pays on behalf of debtors, 670, 724. He ransoms captives, 609, 636, 820. He fears lest his alms be spurned by the needy through a sense of vain honor, 599, 1062, 1232. He commands that aid be given to the poor in the provinces, lest, if they came to Rome, they be more burdened by the journey, 627. He does not wish his apocrisiarius to be mixed up in cases that would burden the poor, 993.
He undertakes with fear the distribution of others' alms, 872, 874, 911. He sends beds and bedding to be stored in a hospice for the aged, for pilgrims, 1092. See Xenodochium. — Gregory believes himself to be a father of orphans and widows, 551, 552, 553. He comes to the aid of widows, 528, 626, 627, 823. He orders that to orphans the father's substance pledged to the Church be restored, 638, 639. He commends an Armenian orphan to a Roman patrician, 643, 644. He protects the oppressed and the vexed, 542, 543, 547, 548, 550, 551, 556, 768, 769, 821, 1025, 1035. He does not suffer others to be grieved contrary to equity, 973.
How solicitous he was in composing disputes, 527, 648, 619, 652, 633, 824, 825, 880, 887, 959, 960. — Gregory's solicitude concerning Italy, which the Lombards were devastating, 570, 590, 591. Concerning Rome, which the same threatened, 607. Concerning Naples, 609. His solicitude toward the Sardinians, Corsicans and Sicilians, 768, 769. He labors for peace, 816. He orders an abundance of grain to be sent to Rome, 557, 960. — Gregory's liberality toward monasteries, 913. He takes care that testaments made for the building of monasteries be fulfilled, 687, 689. He wishes aid to be brought to Theodosia, who was thinking of building a monastery, 693. He orders monks to be introduced into this monastery, 728. He commands that slaves taken from a monastery be restored, 761.
Gregory's solicitude for the preservation of regular discipline in monasteries, 732, 733. See Monks, Monasteries. Gregory reckons it gain if he lays up before God reward rather than riches, 526. Whatever had been diverted contrary to equity to the advantage of the Roman Church he orders to be restored, 523. He commands that a donation of a handmaid of God be restored to the monastery itself, 539. He was unwilling that the patrimony of the Roman Church be increased by frauds and thefts, 533, 534, 535, 536, 553, 595, 655, 656. He orders the price of a gift to be restored, 926. A house given to his Church he wishes restored, moved by mercy toward a poor woman, 948, 956. He orders an estate to be restored to a monastery, 650, 951.
He commands that goods unjustly bequeathed to Churches, and to the detriment of others, be restored, 896. He does not wish others' slaves to be unjustly detained by the Churches, 897. — Gregory takes no delight in gifts, 533, 586, 841. Garments given him as a present by a bishop he orders to be sold, and their price restored to the same bishop, 554. For gifts sent by himself he refuses to accept a price, 917. Those who conduct the Church's affairs he by no means suffers to be defrauded of their labor, 539, 637. Toward those who have deserved well of the Church he shows himself grateful, 992, 993. Vain superfluity does not delight him, 526. He forbids the bishops of Sicily to come to celebrate the day of his ordination, ibid.