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Natalis afterwards returns to his order, 618. Natalis is ordered to recall from exile the bishop Florentius, deposed without the judgment of a council, 631. Nathan skillfully strikes David with his own verdict, 37. The physician had come to the sick man, saw the wound must be cut, but was doubtful of the sick man's patience, ibid. Nathan first consents that the temple be built by the king, and afterwards forbids it, 249. A small birth, that is, few crops, 557. Nature begot all men equal, 20. The soul is like one boarding a boat against the river, 94. A boat full of water reaches the harbor, 357. Naples was under the jurisdiction of the Roman Church, 592, 1003. The privileges of that city are confirmed, 986. Gregory protects the rights of the Neapolitan citizens, 1082.
How the goods of the Neapolitan Church which the bishop had withheld are to be divided, 1117. Let the Neapolitans elect a bishop without delay and discord, 572, 573. The visitation of the Neapolitan Church is enjoined upon Paul, bishop of Nepi, 575. The Neapolitans request that this Paul be incardinated as their bishop, 574. Let two or three from the Neapolitan clergy be sent to Rome to elect a bishop, 649. The guard of the city of Naples is committed to a tribune, 592. Bishops of Naples: Demetrius, 500; Fortunatus, see his title; Paschasius, 1115. The Nea Church, 1134. It disputes with the Church of Jerusalem, 1115. Mist and stench signify carnal concupiscence, 436. The negligent man lies open to excesses, and is wont to incur the things that ought to be avoided, 976.
Negligence of ecclesiastical solicitude harms souls, 937. What it is to do business for the Lord's sake, 610. Merchants too greedy of excessive gain are reproved, 723. Nemesion, bishop of Doclea, ordained in the place of the deposed bishop Paul, is cast out by him, 1201, 1202. He was formerly called a neophyte who was newly planted in the faith; now, he who is new in holy conversation, 782, 1009. Neophytes are barred from orders; see Laymen, Orders. Nepa, better Nepet (Nepi), a city of Etruria, 576. This city seems to belong to the patrimony of the Roman Church, over which Gregory appoints a prefect, ibid. The visitation of the Church of Nepi is committed to bishop John, 588. Paul, bishop of Nepi, 575, 1291. He who marries his niece is excommunicated, 1293.
Nereis, a woman, 926. I know not. Those who know not the things that are the Lord's are unknown by the Lord, 3. Nestorius the heresiarch, and his heresy, 748. He is refuted, 1168, 1169. Nestorius to be anathematized, 1174. By what rite the Nestorians are to be reconciled, 1168. To be received in their own orders, 1169. The Nestorians are like the Jews, 1168. Nicopolis, a city of Epirus, 796. Andreas, bishop of Nicopolis, 898. See his title. Nicotera, a city of Calabria, 823, 825. Proculus, bishop of Nicotera, 962. 'Nisi' sometimes signifies 'but only', 790. Why nobility of birth is rarely joined to nobility of mind, 252. Nobility imposes this law on itself, that it should reckon it owes what it freely bestows, 1102.
Unless it has grown in its benefits, it reckons that it has bestowed nothing, ibid. Nola, an episcopal city in Italy, 277, 506. Bishops of Nola: Paulinus, 115, see his title; Gaudentius, 737. Name. Names taken from God were familiar to the Africans, 884. What it is to fornicate in one's own name, 1030. Nomentum. See Numentum. Nonnosus, provost of the monastery on Mount Soracte, 177. And afterwards perhaps abbot of the same monastery, 663. His virtues, 177; and miracles, 180. Why he is called 'domnus' (lord), 661, 663. Nonnosus, 503. Nordulphus, 607. A notary, a scribe so called from 'notae' (shorthand marks), 553. There were various orders of notaries, ibid. In the Roman Church the office of notaries and chartularies was the same, 561. Notaries are counted among the minor orders, 639.
Bishops had their own notaries, 1209. 'Notitia' signifies an index, a catalogue, an inventory, 696, 697, 820. It is also used for a copy of a deed of donation inserted in the registers (polyptychs), 956. Novas, a city or fort of Italy, 935. Novellae. See Justinian. What the error of the Novatians is, 733. He who marries his stepmother is excommunicated, 1293. Novices, according to the rule of St. Benedict, kept their hair and secular garment, 225. Night signifies the blindness of our infirmity, 90. Clouds which are driven by the winds, 55. By the name of clouds are designated the assaults of wicked men, ibid. What it is, while regarding the clouds, never to reap, ibid. Nuceria, a city of Campania, 653. Primerius, bishop of Nuceria, 947.
Numentum or Nomentum, an episcopal city of Valeria, 538. The church of St. Anthemius is united to the church of Nomentum, ibid. Gratianus, bishop of Nomentum, 1291. What a 'numerarius' (accountant) is, 1189, 1190. Numerius, deacon, 653. Number. To be in the number is the same as to be in the cohort, 428. What it is to serve in the ranks (numeri), 720. Military 'numeri' are cohorts and squadrons, 898. Numidia, a province of Africa, 559. Let no one from the council of Numidia who wishes to come to the Apostolic See be hindered, 559. Gregory exhorts the Numidian bishops to peace and to zeal for the salvation of souls, 562. The gold coin obtained the name 'solidus' under Constantine, 648. 'Nuper' (lately) is sometimes said of a longer time, 244.
諾門圖或努門圖，瓦萊里亞的一座主教城，538。聖安泰米堂與諾門圖教會合併，同上。諾門圖主教格拉齊亞努，1291。何謂「numerarius」（會計），1189、1190。執事努梅里烏，653。數目。「在數目中」等同於「在隊伍中」，428。「在 numeri 中服役」是何意，720。軍中的「numeri」即隊伍、騎兵隊，898。努米底亞，非洲的一省，559。凡欲從努米底亞公會議前往宗座者，不當受阻，559。額我略勸勉努米底亞諸主教追求和平、並熱心於靈魂之得救，562。金幣在君士坦丁治下獲得「solidus」之名，648。「nuper」（近來）有時指較長的時間，244。
Spiritual nuptials begin with mourning and lead through to joys; carnal ones otherwise, 392. The 'commodum' of marriage was the tax which was exacted so that it might be lawful to marry, 535. He who marries his daughter-in-law is excommunicated, 1293. Nursia, a city formerly episcopal, situated among the Sabines, 208. Primerius, bishop of Nursia, 1288. The priests of Nursia dwelt with women who were strangers, 1242. The hardened are to be pricked with sharp words, 52. Sometimes they are to be soothed with gentle admonition, 53. Let him not command obedience to subjects, which he knows not how to show to prelates, 156, 735, 736. The miracle of obedience in St. Maurus, 225. The hardness of disobedient men is confounded, 296. The astonishing obedience of subjects in suffering, 669.
The offerings of the faithful, formerly frequent and appointed by the canons, have almost fallen into disuse, 826. How the right of communion was formerly obtained by offerings, 254. The offerings of the excommunicated were not received, 825. Offerings made for the food of solitaries, 336, 337. What 'crowns of offerings' are, 464. The sacred oblation helps much. See Mass. God rejects the offerings of the discordant, 69. 'Obreptio' and 'subreptio' occur when something is extorted through a lying narration, 579. 'Observare', among certain authors, is to discharge one's office, 899, 997; likewise to minister assiduously to someone, 899, 990; likewise to attend a case, 927, 1018. 'Observatio' is taken for a forensic action, 1018, 1060. What it is to order a siege around the brick, 31.
He kills a brother and a friend who, with the sword of rebuke, does not spare even those whom he loves, 75. Occilianus, tribune of Hydruntum (Otranto), 1003. The Ocleatan is not to be elected as bishop of Rimini, 548, 549. Who the eyes in the body of the Church are, 3. Who, with darkened eyes, bends his back, ibid. What 'bleary eyes' are and what they signify, 12. What it is to anoint the eyes with salve (collyrium), ibid. The eyes by themselves do not see, 381. But through the eyes the soul itself sees, ibid. What it is to hate the enemies of God with a perfect hatred, 69. Odo, abbot of Cluny, reduced Gregory's Dialogues into a compendium, 110, 116. How Paul was the good odor of Christ, 924.
The office of the steward (oeconomus), so necessary to the Church and to bishops, sanctioned by the ancient canons, is now entirely suppressed, 640. How many and how great scandals thence, ibid. Whether the ordinary ecclesiastical judge should be an official or a presbyter, 647. Those bound to public offices are barred from sacred orders, unless by the prince's consent, 675. Innocent I approved this law, the emperor Mauricius restored it, Gregory praised it, 675. The novelty of any office whatever is very burdensome to all, 777. The divine office is called 'the work of God' by St. Gregory, 697, 1086. In the sixth century, in places where the relics of the saints were kept, the divine offices were performed by their own or by neighboring clerics, 697, 698. By oil is signified the softness of piety, 23.
May the Lord grant us his oil, 73. Oil multiplied by divine power, 180, 260, 360. What it means to take oil in vessels with the lamps, 1126, 1127. The Latins render 'omophorion' as the pallium, 518. The omophorion bore the figure of the lamb, ibid. One omophorion is patriarchal, another episcopal, ibid. What oneiromancy is, and what is to be judged concerning it, 453. Burdens are to be borne for one another, 79. He bears another's burden more lightly who remembers that his own is borne by another, 80. How greatly the pastoral burden is to be feared, 507. He who strives to increase his riches neglects to shun sin, 65. Optio, a deacon, was sentenced to penance for having sold to a Jew the sacred furnishings of the Church of Venafro, 554, 555. Opilio, a patrician, 619. Opportunus, abbot of the monastery of St.
Leontius, 838. Opportunus, 1090. Opportunus is praised and proposed as one to be chosen for the episcopate, 1188. Optatus, defensor in the territory of Nursia, 1243. Optatus, defensor of the Church of Salona, 1225. He is called an 'optio' who acts in the place of a military commander, or is given as an aide to a centurion, 428, 677, 720. What a 'dead work' is, 1132. When the time for good works is let slip, the merit is lost, 56. He who now does not sweat at good works vainly asks entrance to the kingdom, ibid. The Christian life consists in the virtue of works, not in the display of signs, 205. No works are good if they are severed from the solidity of faith, 718. The faithful without good works are not saved, 862. One must devote oneself to good works while there is time, 1067.
The outward works of virtue set us up as eminent in this life, 560. Perseverance in a good work is praised, 903. He who lends aid to good works shares in the reward, 1106. Those who do good for the sake of human favour sell a thing of infinite price cheaply, 95, 626. Good works are to be hidden lest we be praised, and to be revealed that God may be praised, 96. A good work is in secret even when done publicly, and is in public even when done secretly, ibid. The righteousness carried on in the mind must be shown by the light of works, 542. Good works are scattered through impatience, 43. What counsel is to be given to those who lament their evil works, 84. What the work of God is, 772. What the work of the sinner is, ibid. An 'oracle' is the same as an oratory, 229, 230. To pray.
For the reprobate and the damned neither the Saints in heaven nor the living on earth pray, 432. One must pray for emperors, 874, 963. What the 'orarium' is, 878. From its oblong shape the stole is called an 'orarium', ibid. Prayer. What it is to repeat a word in prayer, 87. The hour of prayer after the completion of psalmody in community was appointed by St Benedict, 221. Those pure of heart, simple, and given to silence are easily heard by God, 312. The efficacy of the prayer of brethren praying together more earnestly for the salvation of a soul, 440. The usefulness of prayer made for one another, 515. In what way predestination is obtained by prayers, 181, 184. The power of prayer, 268. The marvellous effects of prayer, 316, 352, 364, 440.
Why God hears the prayers of those who hope in Him even in trivial matters, 192. Prayer becomes empty where the action is wicked, 1138. What is to be sought from God must be sought with a great knocking of prayer, 1181. The devil was seen dragging a monk out of the oratory at the time of prayer, 221. Idle or harmful speech is a great impediment to prayer, 312, 313. He who does not hear the Lord commanding is not heard by the Lord, 313. Because of the weakness of our humanity we cannot devote ourselves unceasingly to prayers and the praises of God, 963. Prayer for the faithful dead is found everywhere among the ancient Fathers, 464. Zeal for prayer in a bishop is praised, 1188. The Lord's Prayer was customarily said in the Mass before Gregory, 940. Gregory ordained that it be said after the Canon, ibid.
Amalarius believed that this prayer sufficed for the consecration of the Eucharist, but afterwards changed his opinion, ibid. That prayer is recited differently in the Liturgy among the Greeks and among the Latins, 941. An oratory is sometimes called an 'oracle', 229, 230. It is lawful for anyone to have private oratories at home, 577, 825. Public Masses are not to be celebrated in them, 577. Nor is a priest to be incardinated in them, ibid. Yet, with the bishop permitting, Masses may be celebrated in them outside the principal feasts, 577, 825. Private oratories are to be dedicated under five conditions, 576, 577, 986, 994, 1187. The oratory of a monastery is to be consecrated without public Masses, 989. For Masses to be celebrated in an oratory, a priest must be requested from the bishop, 577, 986, 994.
Oratories were customarily dedicated with relics, 577, 986, 987, 994. What the Spanish word 'orca' signifies, 548. The Romans used to preserve cremated ashes stored in 'orcae' (urns), 549. Ordination is signified by the laying on of hands, 1064. Orders. By the name of 'sacred order' are sometimes understood both the major and the minor orders, 240, 704. The subdiaconate was not counted among the sacred orders in Gregory's time, 538. Orders ought not to be repeated, 608. Whether ordinations given or received by heretics, or schismatics, or even catholics but against the canons, were formerly held valid, ibid. Why the divine dispensation established diverse orders in the Church, 783, 784. Men of the sacred orders should not serve earthly affairs out of desire, 26.
Those established in the sacred orders, if they fall through the flesh, are to be deposed irrevocably, 704. Not out of despair of pardon, but by the rigour of discipline, 703. Yet something can be taken from this severity on account of arising circumstances, ibid. He who has received a sacred order in the Roman Church has no further leave to depart from it, 763. With how great deliberation and caution, and concerning what matters, those to be placed in a sacred order are to be examined, 501, 547, 562, 660, 704. None are to be admitted to the sacred orders except those more advanced in age and clean in their conduct, 660. Nor those whose life can be reproved, 690. What chief conditions Gregory required in candidates for ordination, 600, 704, 798. What the councils formerly required, 704.
On what points they are now to be examined, 704. Who ought to be barred from orders, 600, 1188. To be barred: bigamists or those who have not obtained a virgin as wife, 600, 622, 704, 1220. Those with a bodily defect, 600. Those bound to the curia (civic office) or to any servile condition, 600, 704, 898. The ignorant, 600, 704. Penitents, 600. Africans, because they are Manichaeans or rebaptized, ibid. Boys, 659. Neophytes, ibid. Laymen are not to be promoted at once to the sacred orders, 588, 589, 782, 783, 786, 938, 1008, 1009, 1014, 1015, 1017. The unchaste man and the usurer are repelled from the episcopate, 1086. The poor are not to be barred from the sacred orders, 1017. Each is to be promoted not from favour or venality but from merit, 659, 660, 790, 798, 964, 1007.
Although a man be of blameless merit, he ought nevertheless first to be exercised in ecclesiastical offices through the distinct orders, 1009. One must ascend to the orders in due order, ibid. Whether it was formerly prescribed by the canons to reach the episcopate through each grade of the orders, 1065. One ordained by violence, both he and those who ordained him are suspended from office, 699. Those who have been ordained as the reward of a crime are to be deposed forever from the whole order received, 780. Those ordained simoniacally. See Simony. Fixed intervals are to be observed between the grades of the orders, 659. Because the canonical intervals of orders were not observed, Pope Constantine was cast down from his grade, and the ordinations made by him were declared void, 608.
Many were formerly ordained by bishops not their own, without dimissorial letters, 566. Today, to receive any order, only the dimissorial letters of the bishop of one's birthplace are required, ibid. Gregory is accustomed to call the more honourable among the laity an 'order', 550, 576, 634. By 'order' distinguished from the nobles he means the more honourable citizens or magistrates, 571, 572, 601. In the examination of the upright Judge the quality of actions changes the merits of ranks, 84. Some in a better rank are worse, and some in a worse rank are better, ibid. It is not ranks or places that make us near to our Creator, but good merits, 879. The Eastern Churches, troubled by no heretics under the emperor Maurice, 1134. But they labour under simony, ibid.
Why Origen was called 'chalcenterus' (of brazen bowels), 1036. Who are called 'originarii' (serfs bound to the soil), 700. He who brings help to orphans and widows makes the Lord his debtor, 551. He acquires for himself the greatest praise and reward, 644. God is the governor and protector of orphans, 1118. The island Ophiaria. See Eumorphiana. Ortona. See Hortona. Orvieto, a city of Etruria, 498. Why not a wall but a door is to be set upon the mouth, 54. The kiss of peace precedes the reception of the Eucharist, 357. What bones signify, 46. What it is for bones to rot through envy, 47. Dead bones live in miracles, 329. Why the Tiberine 'Ostia' is so called, 948. The bishop of Ostia, Gloriosus, 947, 1288. What a door signifies, 30. A door is to be set on the mouth, one that opens and shuts, 54.
What it is to enter through the door, 953, 1134. What an idle word is, 55. From idle words one comes to harmful ones, 54, 55. What it is for the sheep to drink water muddied by the feet of the shepherds, 4. Egg. On what days one must abstain from eggs, 1303. Who the peaceable are that should be admonished, 60, 70. With what admonitions the peacemakers are to be fortified, 71, 72. Bishop Sabinus restrains the overflowing Po, 296. If the pagans are unwilling to be converted, they are to be burdened with a heavy tax, 525, 704. Provision is made for the salvation of pagan children, 796. Placeni, a place in the city of Rome, 651. Palatina, the widow of Urbicus, left destitute, is supported by the alms of St Gregory, 528, 549, 550. The 'palatini' are counts of a lower rank, 50. The palatini are distinguished into the largitionales and the privatiani, 1047.
Palladius, tenth bishop of Saintes, 828. Why he was harassed by King Guntram, ibid. He built a church in which he set thirteen altars, 828. Palladius, a priest of Mount Sinai, 1092. 'Pallia' are priestly and sacred vestments, which even in monasteries were costly, 555. 'Pallia' are often mentioned among the sacred furnishings, ibid. How the pallium is distinguished from the omophorion of the Greeks, 518. Whether the material and form of the pallium were the same in the East and the West, 586. Which Roman pontiff first gave the pallium, 936. To whom it was formerly granted, 518, 936. Without the consent of the emperor it was sometimes not granted, 518, 936, 937. It was given only when merits demanded and to those who strongly requested it, 937.
And after the oath of fealty had been rendered, 518. Gregory refuses to send the pallium to Syagrius, because the man who had come to receive it was a schismatic, 937. Gregory gave the pallium to some but not to all the Greek bishops, 586. The Greek patriarchs granted it to their subjects, Rome not objecting, ibid. Formerly the pallium was not given except for a payment made, a practice now forbidden to be done any longer, 788. The pallium signifies humility, 682. And other virtues, 1034. A bishop using the pallium proudly is rebuked, 666. In sending the pallium Gregory admonished how one ought to live, 1028, 1034, 1244. With what disposition it ought to be received, 781, 787, 798, 806, 1014.
In Gregory's time the necessity of the pallium had not yet been introduced, nor did ecclesiastical power depend upon it, 781. In the time of Gregory VII no archbishop was allowed to fulfil his duties without the pallium, 518. Why the bishop was accustomed to wear the pallium in the Mass only until the reading of the Gospel, 665, 783. Why it is not to be worn in the litanies, 666, 739. Formerly the pallium was worn by no one outside the solemnities of the Masses, 666, 1013. The bishops of Ravenna did not use the pallium outside the church, except at translations of relics, 739. The pallium is to be put on in the sacristy, 737. The formula for granting the same, 1301. The pallium is sent by Gregory to Constantius, bishop of Milan, 682; to Virgilius of Arles, 781, 783, 785; to John of Ravenna, 737.
To Marinianus of Ravenna, 787; to John, archbishop of Corinth, 788; to Andrew of Nicopolis, 797; to Donus of Messina, 798; to John of Syracuse, 806; to Maximus of Salona, 992. The pallium was granted to the bishop of Arles from ancient times, 1156. Palmaria, an island of the Tyrrhenian Sea, 545. On that island and the neighbouring ones, boys are forbidden to be received into the monasteries before the eighteenth year of age, ibid. What 'palmatian' garments are, 553. The 'palmata' garment was formerly held in esteem among the Romans, 554. Baronius thinks that by 'palmatian' are signified palmatian grapes or wine, ibid. What it signifies that the unfruitful branch is taken away and the fruitful one is pruned, 952. What it is for the eyelids to slumber, 38. What the movements of the eyelids go before, 56.
Palumbus, bishop of Cosenza, 896, 962, 1234. The Church of St Pancras at Rome, founded by Honorius, entrusted to priests, then united to a monastery, 697. That monastery afterwards passed to the Discalced Carmelites, ibid. Why this church had not the honour of a title, nor a cardinal-priest, 698. In this church the work of God (the Divine Office) is to be performed daily, 697. Gregory sends the relics of St Pancras to Bishop Palladius, 828. Pancratius, a deacon, is not to be recalled from the monastic life, 1205. Square bread, 201. Loaves were customarily marked with the sign of the cross, ibid. Bread divided in three in memory of the Holy Trinity, 202. Bread miraculously multiplied over ten days, 361. Panormus (Palermo), a city of Sicily, 557. Bishops of Palermo: Agatho, 469.
Victor, 557, 1227. John, 1243. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Pantaleo, notary of the Roman See, 634, 960. He is ordered to seek out the vessels of the Church sold by the Sicilian clergy, 915. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Pantaleo, prefect of Africa, 714. Pope. See Roman Pontiff. What papyrus is, whence it arises, and to what use it is put, 173. Paradise. What is signified by the fountain rising from the midst of paradise and watering the face of the earth, 877. A paralytic woman healed, 336. What 'paratura' is, 1204. 'Parangariae.' See Angaria. The term 'parent' extends even to kinsmen, 582. Sometimes the entrance of the heavenly kingdom is closed to little ones by their parents, 400. How greatly parents sin who do not correct their sinning children, 401. Equals.
What 'letters from equals' (epistolae a paribus) are, 507, 508, 563, 831, 834, 661, 830. To do something other than what had been undertaken, as from an equal footing, 661. What 'pariculae' or 'pariclae' letters are, 507. A wall signifies the hardness of subjects, 29. What it is to dig through a wall, ibid. 'Parochia' (parish) and 'dioecesis' (diocese) are used interchangeably everywhere among the ancients, 577, 578, 808, 1265. Whence the district of a diocesan bishop or of a 'curio' got the name of 'paroecia', ibid. Village and rural churches are called 'parochiae' by Gregory, 367. In one city in Gregory's time there were several parishes, 674. Pasch (Easter). The question concerning the Pasch was long and much debated, 932. The announcement of the Pasch was entrusted to the Roman pontiff, 933. That announcement used to be made on the day of the Epiphany, ibid.
何謂『同等者間的書信』（epistolae a paribus），507、508、563、831、834、661、830。以同等身分行與所承擔不同之事，661。何謂 pariculae 或 pariclae 書信，507。牆象徵屬下的頑硬，29。鑿穿牆壁是何意，同上。『堂區』（parochia）與『教區』（dioecesis）在古人中處處通用不分，577、578、808、1265。教區主教或 curio 的轄區何以得名『堂區』（paroecia），同上。額我略稱鄉村及村莊的教堂為『堂區』，367。在額我略時代，一城中有多個堂區，674。逾越節（復活節）。關於逾越節之爭議歷久而繁，932。逾越節的宣告託付於羅馬教宗，933。此宣告昔於主顯節日舉行，同上。
In Sardinia the announcement of the Pasch belonged to the metropolitan, 932, 933. In assigning the day of the Pasch the Scots (Irish) dissented from the Church, 1036, 1037ff., 1038. The Gallican Churches first embraced the Paschal Cycle of Anatolius, 1037. Pope Victor forbade the Pasch to be celebrated together with the Jews, 1037. But the Easterns did not obey, ibid. Paschalis, an orphan, 638. Paschalis, 1232. Paschasinus, bishop of Lilybaeum, legate of Pope St Leo at the Council of Chalcedon, 661. Paschasius, bishop of Marseilles, is placed between Virgilius and Licerius, 541. Paschasius, bishop of Naples, 1115, 1172. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. He is ordered to appoint a 'vicedominus' and a 'major domus' (steward), 1172.
Paschasius, deacon of the Apostolic See, a man of wondrous holiness, 444. His are two most brilliant books on the Holy Spirit, ibid. He was a cultivator of the poor and a despiser of himself, ibid. Deceived by error, he upheld the party of the antipope Laurentius, ibid. After death, consigned to punishment because of his error, he is freed by Germanus, bishop of Capua, 445. At his body a demoniac is healed, 444. Why his holiness was proved by a miracle, and his fault purged by punishments, 445. Paschasius Radbertus, monk of Corbie, praises Gregory's Dialogues in his book on the Body and Blood of the Lord, 107. Paschasius, a magnificent man, 1209. Passivus, bishop of Fermo, 943. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Passivus, 589. What 'pastellus' is, 1290.
Nothing is to be accepted for a 'pastellus', 1290. Shepherd (Pastor). Gregory orders a yearly allowance of food to be provided for this man, who was weak in his eyes, 554. Shepherds are called heralds, 17, 511. What it is for a shepherd to drink the clearest water, 1. The whole order of shepherds is signified by the twelve oxen bearing the sea, 19, 512. Let humility not flee access to the pastoral office when it is necessary, 1. Let the ambitious be repelled from the office of shepherd, 3. Let no one through lust for the summit undertake the leadership of perdition, 4. He who is free should not seek the pastoral care, and he who has sought it should fear having obtained it, 1. The pastoral office must not be stubbornly declined, 8, 621. Even at God's command it is to be undertaken only with dread, 8, 607.
He who desires it hastens to his own judgment, ibid. When it is lawful to abandon it, 217, 220. He who is able to feed God's sheep and refuses shows that he by no means loves the chief Shepherd, 6, 848. The care of feeding is a testimony of love, 6. How harmful to the flock is the too-long-delayed election of a shepherd, 564. A shepherd is not to be set over the unwilling, 573, 615. As the place of governance is to be denied to those who desire it, so it is to be offered to those who flee it, 848. What it is for a shepherd to enter through the door, 963, 1134. The image of a good shepherd, 13, 508. The image of the vigilant shepherd in Laban, 963. If he casts himself before the flock, he sets a wall for the house of Israel, 17, 510. How the good shepherd despises the blandishments and terrors of the world, 509.