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Why God, though he in great part perfects the minds of rulers, nevertheless in great part leaves them imperfect, 102. To those who govern are joined both their merits and their reward, 855. The Church ought not for long to be without its own rector, 861. Let the rectors of the patrimony of the Roman Church not, in fiscal manner, of their own accord affix titles (claims), 1289. See 'Patrimony.' Redempta, a nun renowned for holiness, 395. What it is to give the price of redemption, 696. Concerning the redeeming of captives, the sanction of the sacred canons and of secular laws has decreed, 696. See 'Captive.' Redemptus, bishop of the city of Ferentino, 368. Redemptus, a defensor, 926, 927. Redemptus, a Jew converted to the faith, 714. Redemptus, 595. 'Redhibere' is to give back what you owe, 537.
Sometimes it is taken absolutely for 'to give back,' 565, 1004. How the revenues of the Church are to be exacted, 1209. A fourth part of them is to be distributed to the clergy, 1249. See 'Goods of the Church.' The government of souls is the art of arts, 3. The ambitious do not attain the summit of rule, but seize it, 3. Let no one through desire of the summit take up the leadership of perdition, 4. The occupation of ruling often dissipates steadiness, 5. The peril of those who, called by God to the rule of souls, refuse to come, 6, 848. Let him who abounds in virtues, when compelled, attain to rule; let him who is empty of virtues not approach even when compelled, 10. What kind of person each should be who comes to rule, 10. Let him approach rule free of vices, 11. Let discipline and mercy not be separated from one another in ruling, 23.
What the virtues of pastoral rule are, 24. The place of rule is to be denied to those desiring it, and to be offered to those fleeing it, 848. God punishes many men by one man set up in rule, 1239. Since not every man is equally able to stand, let one be ruled by another, 20. In what year Regino, abbot of Prüm, died, 107. In his books on ecclesiastical disciplines he relates a story taken from Gregory's Dialogues, ibid. Regionaries: notaries and subdeacons were honored with the regionary dignity before Gregory's time, 905. Ten defensors were dignified with the same honor under Gregory, 905, 937. There were seven regionary deacons at Rome, 937. They were subject to the archdeacon, ibid. What the 'Registrum' or 'Regestum' is, 484. An ancient word, 485.
Some call it 'Regestum' from the verb 'regero,' that is, 'I record into tablets,' ibid. 'Regestum' is also sometimes taken for a chamber (repository), ibid. Let the earthly kingdom serve the heavenly, 676. A kingdom is then well ruled, when the glory of ruling does not dominate the mind, 1030. See 'King.' God transfers kingdoms, 1238. 'Rego' (I rule). When is the highest place well ruled, 22, 513. Those who serve are ruled the more rightly, the more truly the Lord of all is served, 1245. The Rule of Saint Benedict is praised by Saint Gregory under the name of the Rule of Monks, 1137. The Pastoral Rule. The antiquity and usefulness of the books of the Pastoral Rule, Pref. p. 1. When it was first conceived, ibid. and p. 2. When it was published, and on what occasion, ibid. and p. 2.
It was most acceptable to Greeks and Latins, ibid. Especially to the Gauls, ibid. Many councils celebrated in Gaul commended it, ibid. Which councils, ibid. By order of the Emperor Maurice it was translated into the Greek language, ibid. And into Saxon (English) by Alfred himself, king of the West Saxons, ibid. From which time the Greek version perished, ibid. Published many times before in French, it has recently appeared again in the same language, ibid. On the same subject and on a similar occasion wrote Saints Gregory Nazianzen and John Chrysostom, ibid. Bishop of Riez, Maximus, 1101. 'Relaxare,' that is, to remit (release), 490. The use of relaxations (remissions) was formerly not frequent; now sin overflows with abounding remissions, 657. 'Relicta,' that is, a widow, 1363.
The Christian Religion. Strangers (foreigners) are to be led to the Christian religion by blandishments, not by harshness, 1226. 'Religious.' This word is attributed not only to monks, but also to clerics and other faithful, 551, 701, 707, 782, 822. 'Religiosus,' that is, a pious man, 1140. Tributes (taxes) are to be paid even by the religious, 1059. Relics. Why the holy martyrs show more miracles through their relics than through their own bodies, 276. By the patronage of the saints are understood their relics, ibid. The tunic of Saint Eutychius, reverently taken up and carried about through the fields, obtains rain, 313. The cult of relics is most ancient, 547. Formerly scarcely any altar was consecrated without relics, 577, 695.
The relics of the saints were wont to be laid up in baptisteries, 809. Altars were formerly erected over the tombs and relics of martyrs and confessors, 828. At the beginning of the sixth century, where there were relics, there the divine offices were performed, 697. Relics are not to be placed where other human bodies lie buried, 547, 548, 571, 572, 577, 897, 943, 986, 994. With what mind relics are to be received, 826, 829, 1088. Reverence for the relics of Saints Peter, Paul, and Lawrence is sanctioned by terrible signs, 708, 709. To touch the bodies of the saints is sacrilege, and no small rashness remains upon those who touch them, 710. Under Gregory's pontificate the Latins scarcely dared to touch the bodies of the saints, 829. But they sent 'brandea' (cloths touched to the relics), 709, 711, 829, 838.
Yet not only 'brandea' were then sent, but also the relics of the saints, 625, 638, 709, 828, 829, 943, 994, 1031. Pope Hadrian, having sent relics to Charlemagne, is terrified by a revelation, 708. Certain Greek monks at Rome dig up the bodies of the dead, as if to carry them off into Greece as relics of saints, 710. False relics were sometimes employed in place of true ones, 709. In certain places relics were proved by fire applied to them, 709. Particles of the chains of Saint Peter and of the gridiron of Saint Lawrence, enclosed in a cross, to be worn about the neck, 648. Particles struck off with a file from the chains of Saint Paul, and sent in the manner of relics, 741. Relics are called 'sanctuaria,' 1115, 1188. See 'Sanctuaria.' 'Remunero' (I reward).
God prepares the rewards of eternal recompense for temporal deeds, 750. Reparatus, a man of distinction, 420. His vision concerning the punishment of a certain presbyter, ibid. and 421. One guilty of extortion ought to be punished in his property, not in his liberty, 1079. 'Reprehendere' (to reprove). Good rectors rejoice to be reproved by their subjects, 28. He is a friend who reproves, 617, 618. When we are reproved, we ought to placate our reprovers with humble reasoning, 1130. The reprobate. The hedgehog has a den among the reprobate, 48. The reprobate, from where they outwardly advance, thence they fall from their inmost parts, 78. In the reprobate the flesh amid torments does not perfectly fail, but by ever failing continues to subsist, 376. The reprobate receive power to rage against the saints unto their own greater damnation, 408.
From the day of their departure the reprobate are tormented by the fire of hell, 416. The reprobate sometimes work miracles, 1111. What the creeping things among that which brings forth (the earth) signify, 30. Rest will be so much the greater for us in heaven, the more no rest has here now been ours through love of the Creator, 712. Res (things). 'Count of the private estate' (comes rerum privatarum), 499. The emperor is called 'lord of things,' 501, 502. The rescripts or commands of emperors are called 'sacred summits,' 'sacred imperial [decrees],' or simply 'sacred,' 544. Residence. A presbyter absent from his church for two months is excluded, another being substituted in his place, 692. But because he had been absent solely by reason of infirmity, he is ordered to be restored, 694. Whence the frequent absence of presbyters from their churches, 694.
Unless in old times the presbyters were assiduously present, the people complained of being forsaken, ibid. Whether it is permitted to pastors to fulfill their duties by themselves or through substitutes, ibid. See 'Residence of bishops.' Kindness is not to be denied to one who repents, 1271. Respecta, an abbess, 858. Respectus, a deacon of Salona, 640. 'To respond' or 'to give a response' is the same as to pay a debt, 1059. A 'responsalis' is called a messenger or courier carrying letters back and forth, 533, 611, 619, 731. The responsalis of the Church of Thessalonica, 1267. The Republic. 'To come to the republic' is the same as to follow the party (interests) of the republic, 568. How restitution of Church goods carried off by theft is to be made, 1035, 1153. Restitution is to be made speedily, 556.
Restitution is to be made even to schismatics, 972. 'Resultare,' that is, to rebound, to resist, 505, 576. Resurrection. In Gregory's time many doubted concerning the resurrection of bodies, 114, 369. Gregory himself also doubted, 114. The resurrection of bodies is a lesser miracle than the resurrection of the soul from sin, 321. The flesh, by clinging to the spirit, is preserved forever; the spirit, by clinging to the flesh, is preserved unto God, 376. Some resurrections (of the dead), 432. 'Reverendissimus' (most reverend), formerly 'reverentissimus,' was used, 573. 'Reverendissimus' is a title of honor by which Gregory sometimes addresses bishops, 846, 1063, 1095. What it is to return to oneself, 217. In how many ways we are led outside ourselves and return to ourselves, 217. The accused (guilty one).
In punishing the accused, there is the ancient distinction between the palace and the Church, 759. King. Kings are to be admonished concerning those things which pertain to salvation, 678. They ought not to meddle in priestly (sacerdotal) causes, 699. Subjects ought to pray for kings and their families, 853, 855. The correction of the wicked pertains to kings, 939, 1018. Let them not permit those whom they govern outwardly to perish inwardly, 1014. The highest good in kings is to preserve to each his own rights, 1023. Let them keep equity toward the priests, 1024. In the governing of a kingdom, virtue [needs] justice, and power needs equity, ibid. Whether all things are just and honorable for kings, 1025. What those ought to do who cleave to earthly kings, ibid. The governance of a kingdom toward its subjects is to be tempered, 1030. In a king, wrath is to be shunned, 1030.
A kingdom is then well ruled, when the glory of ruling does not dominate the mind, ibid. The appellation of 'father' befits kings, 1080. Barbarian kings hold their subjects as if they were slaves, ibid. The endowments of kings: zeal and gentleness, 1245. By 'kings of the nations' are understood the kings of the barbarians, 831, 1079, 1080. The kings of the nations are lords of slaves, 1239. What that name signifies among the Greeks of the middle age, and to whom it was given, 278. Rhegium, a city of the Bruttii in Italy, 626. Bishops of Rhegium: Lucius, 656; Bonifacius, 684. See his heading. Bishop of Reims, Flavius, 1288. Rhisinium, a city of Dalmatia, 517, 518. Its episcopal see, translated to Castrum Novum, is subject to the archbishop of Ragusa, 517. Bishop of Rhisinium, Sebastianus, 518.
Riggo, spatharius of Totila, who pretends to be Totila, 237. Whence the 'Rimarii' are so called, 1036. 'Roga' signifies a donative, an honorarium, a stipend, 608, 757, 1032. It also signifies the stipend of those serving in the militant Church, and alms, 608. 'Rogalia' were the days on which the 'rogae' (payments) were given, ibid. 'Rogatores' are stipendiaries, ibid. Rogatianus, a deacon in Numidia, 821. The Roman pontiff is the ministerial head of the whole Church, and the center of ecclesiastical unity, 773. The head of the faith, 1244. He was called 'ecumenical' in the Council of Chalcedon, 743, 749, 771. Because he is the successor of Saint Peter, he is set by divine right over the four patriarchs, 618. He ought to preserve to each bishop his jurisdiction, 619.
What his care toward the bishops ought to be, 983. To celebrate the anniversary (natalis) of the Roman pontiff, bishops formerly used to gather at Rome from Sicily, which Saint Gregory forbids to be done, 526. His election was formerly confirmed by the emperors, 699. Immediately after his election the Roman pontiff used to send to the kings a synodical statement, an index of his faith, 490. And to the other patriarchs, 844. He used to ordain the bishops of Italy, Sicily, and the neighboring provinces, or they were ordained by his license, 587, 601, 722, 1053, 1087. In Gregory's time very many cities were subject to the lordship of the Roman Church, 592, 1003.
To churches widowed of their own pastor the Roman pontiff used to delegate visitors, not only in the provinces subject to him as metropolitan, but also sometimes in others, 562. In the Lateran Council he was pronounced 'ordinary of ordinaries,' 578. 'To come to Blessed Peter' is the same as to come to the supreme Roman pontiff, 619, 723. Boniface, a magnificent man of Africa, and certain others, are ordered to come to the thresholds of Blessed Peter, to answer concerning their faith, 723. In the Roman pontiff there is the ancient power of prohibiting certain books, which even the Easterners were bound to obey, 843. He ought to take cognizance of the causes of primacies according to the canons, 976. The authority of the Roman pontiff in granting privileges, 1019.
對喪失本身牧者的教會，羅馬教宗常委派巡視員，不僅在作為都主教而隸屬於他的各省，有時亦在其他各省，562。在拉特朗會議中，他被宣稱為「眾常任主教之常任者（ordinary of ordinaries）」，578。「來到聖伯多祿處」同於來到羅馬至高教宗處，619、723。非洲的顯赫之人博尼法爵及某些其他人，被命前來聖伯多祿的門檻，就其信仰作答，723。羅馬教宗擁有禁止某些書籍的古老權柄，連東方人亦有義務服從之，843。他當按教會法典審理有關首席權的案件，976。羅馬教宗在授予特權上的權柄，1019。
It belongs to him by right to revise the sentences (opinions) of others, 1061. 'Corona' (crown), a title of honor by which the supreme pontiffs and other bishops were formerly addressed, 622. 'Celsitudo' (highness), also a title of honor given to the supreme pontiff, 978. To the secret services of the supreme pontiff let not laymen, but clerics or monks, be admitted, 1289. The body of a deceased Roman pontiff was formerly covered with dalmatics, which the people, out of reverence for his sanctity, used to tear, 1290. Saint Gregory forbids this to be done, ibid. Romanus, bishop of the city of Blera, 1291. Romanus, a monk, meeting the holy boy Benedict as he fled the world, 209. He clothed him in the monastic (regular) habit, ibid. And for three years he served him in the cave where he lay hidden, ibid., 212. Romanus, a deacon of the Roman Church, 816.
Romanus, a defensor, 592, 593. He is appointed defensor of the patrimony of the Roman Church in Sicily, 944. The various things he did by Gregory's command, see the alphabetical index of the Letters. Romanus, a patrician, and third exarch of Italy, substituted in place of Smaragdus by the Emperor Maurice, 521, 643. In what year he died, 521. Gregory complains of this Romanus, 607, 608, 770. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Romanus, a man of distinguished memory, built a monastery in his own house at Naples, 1043. Romanus, a magnificent man, 555. Romanus, 1242. Various calamities at Rome were foretold by Saint Benedict, 240. Amid swords Rome is preserved by the protection of the apostles Peter and Paul, 911. Rome, worn down by various afflictions, 1032, 1033.
The Roman Church is by antonomasia called the Apostolic See, 517. Sometimes it is understood under the name of Saint Peter, 831, 832. The primacy of the Roman Church, 668, 669. Peter exalted the see in which he deigned to rest and to end the present life, 888. The Roman Church receives what is defined by the four holy synods, and reproves what is condemned, 1270. The Roman synod, 1287. In it sit bishops and presbyters, with deacons and clergy standing by, 1288. Romula, a nun. Her virtues, 396. Her wondrous death, ibid., 397. Romulus had a hundred chosen from the elders, called senators, in the manner of a public council, 493. Rosellae or Rusellae, a city once of Etruria, long since destroyed, 500. Bishops of Rosellae: Balbinus, 500.
Baldinius, 1291. 'Rota' (a wheel), how it signifies the sinner's felicity, 492. The rust of vices, not purged by the fire of tribulation, is a sign of a hardened mind, 53. Roderic, one of the three who were accustomed always to cling to Totila, 237. Which of the untaught in sacred doctrine are to be admonished, 72. Ruferius, a count, 847. Rufinus, bishop of Ephesus, 823. Rufinus, bishop of Vibo, 857. A rock is compelled to give way, 177. Rustica, of patrician memory, founds a monastery of handmaids of God, 673. Her will concerning the building of this monastery was long neglected, 946. Rusticiana, a patrician lady, 589, 1119. Who ought to bear calumny, ibid. She is reproved for her too hasty return from Mount Sinai, 724. Her charity in redeeming captives;
94. Saint Gregory does not allow her to call herself the handmaid of Saint Gregory, 1123. She offers gifts to Saint Peter, ibid. Saint Gregory asserts her to be his own, as if a vassal, ibid., 1124. She gives alms to the Roman monastery of Saint Andrew, 1124. Rusticianus, 539. In what year the funeral of Rusticula was performed, 541. Rusticus, a deacon, rejected from the episcopate of Ancona on account of ignorance of the Psalms, 777, 1269. Rusticus, a most illustrious man, 1057. Rusticus. See 'Colonus' (tenant farmer). The rustic farmers of the patrimony of the Roman Church in Sicily, 533. Gregory forbids a poll-tax (burdatio) paid by the rustics for a certain Theodosius, whose property did not suffice to pay the Church, to be exacted again from those same rustics, 536.
Why Gregory orders loans (of solidi) to be given to the rustics of Sicily, 734, 735. The care of rustics has been committed by God to the nobles, 703. Rustic pagans unwilling to be converted are to be burdened with the weight of a rent (pension), 704. Forty rustics slaughtered by the Lombards because they refused to eat forbidden foods, 337. A rustic, bound by a Goth and greatly vexed, is loosed through Saint Benedict, 264. A rustic is freed from a demon, 328. A 'sabanum' is a linen cloth whose use was in receiving and drying those baptized from the sacred font, 320, 453, 461, 730. Sabbatius, a patrician of Armenia under Justinian Rhinotmetus, 493. Sabbath. The Sabbath day is not to be kept according to the letter, 1213, 1214. See 'Antichrist.'
How the Christian keeps the Sabbath, how he violates it, 1214. When the observance of the Christians' Sabbath, that is, of the Lord's Day, was commanded by the Church or by the emperors, 1214. What things are forbidden to be done on this day, 1215. What it is to flee on the Sabbath, and why it is forbidden, 23. On Holy Saturday even little children in Gregory's age fasted, 352. Sabina, a province of Italy, 459, 460. The bounds of the Sabine peoples, 460. The region of the Sabines formerly extended farther than Sabina now does, 638. Bishop of Sabina, Julianus, 169, 193, 417. Sabinianus, bishop of Gallipoli, 1003. Sabinianus, bishop of Zadar (Jadera), 863, 1034. He communicates with Maximus of Salona, 863.
Afterward defecting from him, in order to receive absolution he is summoned to Rome, 863, 864. Withdrawing into a monastery for the sake of penance, he is granted communion, 902. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Sabinianus, bishop of Todi, 1288. Sabinianus, a deacon, apocrisiarius of Saint Gregory before the emperor, who succeeded him in the pontificate, 725, 740, 742, 746, 837. He is commended by Gregory to the patrician Priscus, 662; to John of Constantinople, 664; to Theotimus the physician, 665. Sabinianus, a most illustrious man, defensor of the Church of Lilybaeum through the thirteenth and first indictions, 1059. Sabinus, or Savinus, bishop of Canusium, 240. To him Saint Benedict foretells the future ruins of Rome, ibid. Sabinus, endowed with the spirit of prophecy, 285.
Wine infected with poison, after the sign of the cross was made over it, he drank securely, 288. His archdeacon, the author of the crime, dies at that very moment in which the holy bishop drinks down the poisoned chalice, ibid. Sabinus, bishop of Piacenza, of wondrous power, 296. A letter he wrote checks the overflowing Po, 296 and following. Sabinus, defensor of Sardinia, 649. Sabinus, or Savinus, a regionary subdeacon, 1043, 1192, 1193, 1194. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Sack. What it is to put money into a pierced sack, 68. Saint Gregory does not wish the purse of the Church to be defiled with base gains, 536. 'Sacculus,' 'saccellus,' 'sacellarius,' 'saccellarius,' 'saccularius,' 'sacco,' 'saccarius' are used everywhere for pouches, treasury, treasure, etc., 533.
'Sacella' and 'Sacellarius' are words derived from 'saccus' (sack), 535, 620. 'Sacellarius' and 'Saccellarius' mean the same thing, 535. If 'Sacellarius' is derived from 'sacer' (sacred), it means something else, 535, 620. Some sacellarii are called greater, others of lesser rank, 535. 'To offer customs (dues) to the sacellum' is to offer the customary sum to the public treasury, 619, 620. A 'Sacellarius' is the name given to the quaestor who is set over the treasury, 751, 752. Those who preside over the faithful are called priests (sacerdotes), 27. By 'priests' are almost always to be understood bishops, 613, 614, 635. Yet 'priest' is sometimes said of a simple presbyter in Gregory, 204. Some priests are of the first order, others of the second order, 563, or of a greater or lesser order, 563. Who the cardinal priests were, 501, 563.
What it is for a priest to bear on his breast the judgment of the children of Israel in the sight of the Lord, 14. Why the Law assigns to the priest the shoulder with the breast of the victim, 15. On both shoulders let the priest be covered by the ephod (superhumerale), ibid. The priest entering and going out of the sanctuary dies, if the sound of him is not heard, 17. Why priests are forbidden to shave the head and to nourish long hair, 27, 514, 850. Let them not possess a priestly heart of fleeting thought, 14, 508. Why the priestly heart is the ark of the testament (covenant), 910. Whoever comes to the priesthood undertakes the office of a herald (crier), 17, 511. A priest ignorant of preaching is a mute herald, ibid. He merits the wrath of God, if he is silent, 17, 511. Let the works of a priest cry out with the sound of the tongue, 511.
The priests are the stones of the sanctuary, 23. To what end, 25. Who are scattered at the head of the streets, ibid., 26. The vestments of the priest are good works, 17, 511. With what salt his discourses are to be seasoned, 511. Let him teach by word and by example, 17, 508. Let him at once have innocence of morals and the wariness of the faith that is to be taught and guarded, 621. Humility alone is the exaltation of the priestly office, 665. Pride in priests is not to be endured, 668. It is a grave injury to a priest, that one serving the truth should be believed deceitful, 766. Priests are to be honored by kings, ibid. Even by pagan princes the priests of idols were honored, 767. In Scripture, priests are called angels and gods, 766. The virtues and miracles of holy priests provoke to faith, 886.
It befits a priest to shine in morals and life, 921. It befits a good priest to do nothing whence there might be just reproach, 930. Bad priests are the cause of the ruin of the people, 4, 1171. With how great a punishment they are to be tormented, 4. As is the priest, so is the people, 25. Bad priests are not stones of the sanctuary in the ornament of the pontiff, 26. Certain ones serve the neck of pride, who are set to furnish the leadership of humility, 744. A priest committing the same sins as his subjects will suffer not the same, but far graver punishments, 1045. For priests to dwell with strange (unrelated) women is very grave and unseemly, 1242. By what means those dwelling thus are to be amended, 1243. Priesthood. Whoever comes to the priesthood undertakes the office of a herald, 17, 511.
What the cultivators (holders) and patrons of priesthoods (benefices) should attend to, 659. Sacrament. The effect of the sacraments does not depend on the ministers, whether good or bad, 254. Sacrament, that is, an oath. See 'Oath.' Charity alone renders our sacrifice acceptable to God, 44. The sacrifice of the new law offered for the living and the dead, 115, 464, 465, 468, 472. The chains of a captive in prison were loosed when the sacrifice was offered for him, 469. A sailor is divinely rescued from shipwreck by the power of the sacrifice offered for him, ibid. The sacrifice offered for the dead on the seventh, thirtieth, and fortieth day, 464. To which of the departed that sacrifice profits, 472. How great is its power, ibid. Offering this sacrifice, we ought to imitate what we perform, ibid.
What is to be done if one who celebrates the Sacrifice frequently suffers illness, 1261. The error of the Sadducees concerning the resurrection of the dead, 71. Why Paul sought to divide between the Sadducees and the Pharisees, 71, 72. How harmful worldly fellowship is to the servants of God, 313. The World. In this world we do not see one another's thoughts in turn, but in the world to come we shall see them, 445. Sagona. See Saona. Salt signifies the wisdom of the word, 17, 511, 880. Salt without peace is not a gift of virtue but a proof of damnation, 68. The Salarian Way, 1125. Salerius, a notary of the Roman Church, 973, 1173. He is called Chartularius (record-keeper), 1242. Who the Salgamarii are, 651. The Council of Chalcedon complains that Salgamarii had been ordained bishops, ibid. Salgamum.
By the name 'salgamum' are understood whatever things, seasoned with salt or with other substances having the power of salt, were kept for food in vessels, 651. There is also understood a salting-cellar, ibid. Solomon, misusing prosperity, falls into idolatry, 78. Wisdom deserted him whom no discipline of tribulation had guarded, 78. Salona, the metropolis of Dalmatia, 504. From its ruins grew Spalatum (Split), ibid. The Salonitans are reproved because scarcely two of them abstained from communion with the usurper Maximus, 813. Why the bishops of Dalmatia are forbidden to ordain the bishop of Salona without the consent of Gregory, 690. Bishops of Salona: Natalis. See his entry. Maximus, 698. See his entry. Salpingus, a Jew, 537. Salvation.
One must devote oneself to procuring one's own salvation and that of one's neighbours, 7. We ought to use the health of the body for doing good, 49. What harm he incurs who does not spend the health of his body in exercising the virtues, ibid. The health of the mind is the infirmity of the body, 50. Sallust, a most illustrious man, 1209. The place is called 'salutatorium' in which the bishop received the salutations of the faithful before the Mass, 504, 787. In the salutatoria were lodgings, 504. No one can be saved who does not possess the life of faith, 861. Who the Samaraeans were, whether Samaritans or rather Jews, 819, 910. Let pastors follow the example of the Samaritan who healed the wounds with wine and oil together, 23, 514. Gregory promises that he will expound allegorically certain deeds of Samson, 1208.
A consecrated woman. See Nun. Holiness, a title of honour formerly given commonly to bishops, presbyters and deacons, 531. Gregory bestows this on bishops, 532, 608, 680, 831, 976, 1055, 1075. Sometimes also on abbots adorned with the priesthood, but never on monks or abbots who were not presbyters, 967, 968. Now it is reserved to the Supreme Pontiff, 531. 'Sanctuaria' are said to be the relics of the holy martyrs, 547, 548, 572, 577, 808, 826, 943, 994, 1115, 1188. 'Sanctuaria' are also said to be some veil or brandeum (cloth), 838. Sanctulus, a presbyter venerable in life and faith, 308, 360. He was of cheerful countenance and spirit, 360. His miracles, ibid. and 361. His wondrous charity, 361, 364, 365.