Pastoral Rule, Dialogues & Letters 845 part 26/29

By this law a widow is not bound whose husband abstained from his ministry, 717. Why second marriages are forbidden to the widows of clerics, 716. Vienne, a city of Gaul, for some time a rival of the Church of Arles, 831. The breast stripped of the breastplate of vigilance lies open to the darts, 89, 90. The watchful mind is like the helmsman of a ship, 90. The mind asleep from the care of its own solicitude is beaten and feels no pain, 90; it is dragged and does not perceive it, 90. One must keep watch under the protection of God, 328. How useful is the careful foreseeing of faults, 976. Gregory asks that the household of Vigildus be released, 571. Pope Vigilius, ambiguous concerning the Fifth Council and the Three Chapters to be condemned, 615. He gave occasion to the schism, or added strength to it, 682. He condemned the Empress Theodora and the Acephali, 615.

And Theodore, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, 616. Vigilius exercised the office of the prefecture of Milan before John, 953. Vincentius, a bishop of Sardinia, 932. Vincentius, a deacon of the Church of Lamigium, complained to Gregory about his bishop Argentius, 566, 567. Vincentius, a monk of Lérins, 1101. Vincomalus is appointed defensor of the Church, 756, 823. Vintarith, 1242. What wine signifies, 23. How the Lord provides His wine to us, 73. Tergeste. See Tergestum. The tremissis, a third part of the gold solidus, 570, 707, 734. It was almost equivalent to our silver crown, 708. Tres Tabernae (Three Taverns), a city formerly of Latium, 614. Its see is united to the church of Velletri, 614. Tribulation.

The fire of tribulation, when it does not purge the rust of the vices, shows a hardened soul, 53. For those placed in the utmost tribulation the only consolation is the mercy of the Creator, 1062. God did not promise His elect in this life the joys of delight, but the bitternesses of tribulation, 1127. Let not tribulation crush our strength, 1233. The Council of Tribur of the year 895. It relates a story taken from Gregory's Dialogues, 107. There were various ranks of tribunes, 499. A tribune who was a cleric, 696. Tributes profit less toward advantage if they are gathered with sin, 769. Formerly the possessions of ecclesiastics were immune from every tribute, 1017. Tributes are to be paid even by religious, 1059. Tricala. See Trecala. The origin of the trentals of Masses, 468.

Trinity. Abraham, greeting the three angels as one, declared that the subsistences of the Trinity are of one substance, 617. Baptism is to be conferred in the name of the Trinity, 1167. Otherwise, it is void, 1168. What a 'tripedica' (three-legged stool) is, 261. The devil, furnished with a tripedica, appears to Saint Benedict, ibid. Which sad persons are to be admonished, 37. The sad readily have anger, ibid. Wheat. By the measure of wheat the measure of the word is expressed, 99. Wheat miraculously multiplied, 192; what it signifies, 426. Tropaea, a city of Calabria, 569. The monks of Tropaea, if they live religiously, are to be helped, ibid. Todi, an episcopal city in Umbria, 192. The bishops of Todi: Fortunatus, 190 (see his entry); Sabinianus, 1288.

Tullianus, master of the soldiery, 900. 'Tultus,' that is, taken away, 608, 973, 974, 1035, 1107, 1108. Tunic. By the tunic the Roman orders were distinguished, 1012. In what tunics differ from dalmatics, ibid. Pelagius, bishop of Turni, 830. Turris, an episcopal city in Sardinia, 550. The visitation of its church is committed, 1052. The bishop of Turris (Torres), Marinianus, 550, 932. Gregory orders that guardians be given to the wards of the Church's tenant-farmers, to govern their goods, 535. A guardian is forbidden to marry his ward, 575. Timbrel. What it means to praise God on the timbrel but not in the choir, 68. What it means to praise God on the timbrel and in the choir, 880. Tyndaris, a city formerly episcopal in Sicily, 672, 994. The bishop of Tyndaris, Eutychius, 672.

What the letter signifies, 435. What it means for the breasts to be pressed in Egypt, 82. The 'ulna' is sometimes taken for a cubit, sometimes for the space to which either hand is extended, 671. Vengeance. Some seek vengeance not at once but long after injuries have been inflicted, 44, 45. To whom these are like, 45. Discreet leniency in correction has more strength than severity in carrying out vengeance, 1051. The mutual concord of the prelates of the Church is to be fostered more zealously, 879. An ounce consists of five hundred and seventy-six grains, 708. There are six solidi in an ounce, 648, 708. Nine ounces, that is three quarters of a thing, 537. An heir to six ounces, that is the heir of half the inheritance, 537, 539, 626.

An heir to eight ounces, that is one who obtains two of the three parts, 577, 990. An heir to four ounces, that is one who obtains only one part of three, 673, 990. An heir to one ounce, 1189, 1190. The cause of the union of churches is the advantage or necessity of the Church, 495. How many are the reasons for uniting one church to another, ibid. Churches are united in three ways, ibid. The church of Carini is united to that of Reggio, 597, 799. Cumae is united to Misenum, 606. Formia is united to Minturno, 493. The church of the Three Taverns is united to that of Velletri, 614. With what zeal unity is to be procured, 972. The name 'universal bishop' is called by Gregory a name of error, 742; a foolish and proud word, ibid.; a perverse word, 742, 743.

An impious word, 742, 850; a wicked word, 747; a name of blasphemy in which the honour of all priests is taken away, 749, 771; a word of pride, through which grave scandal is generated in the churches, 878. By this word he says the faith of the whole Church is corrupted, 873. Gregory inveighs against this title, 749, 881, 984. Gregory is wrongly blamed, as though he gave place to scandal for no cause, 873, 881. The title of 'universal bishop' was offered to the Roman pontiffs in several petitions at the Council of Chalcedon, 743, 749, 750, 771, 919. But none of them wished to usurp it for himself, 749, 771, 919. Pope Hadrian at the Seventh Synod disputed with Tarasius about this title, 749.

Gregory rejected it when offered to him, 771, 919. In what sense the Greeks attributed the title 'ecumenical' to their patriarch, 749, 772. What the letter signifies, 190. Urbanus, abbot of a monastery outside Cagliari, 1107. Urbicus, a provost, 596, 732. He is said to be abbot of the monastery of Saint Hermes at Palermo, 824. Who he was, 1136. He is charged with imprudence, 1136ff. He is more harshly rebuked by Gregory, 1137. See the alphabetical index of Letters. The election of Urbicus as bishop of Palermo is approved, 1228. Why, though reluctant, he is not compelled, ibid. Urbicus, a defensor, 639. Urbicus, husband of the lady Palatina, 528. Urbino, a city of Umbria, 641. The bishop of Urbino, Leontius, 641, 774. Urbitius, bishop of Durazzo, 898, 983. Orvieto (Urbs Vetus), an episcopal city of Etruria, 498.

The bishop of Orvieto, John, 498. 'Urgere' among profane authors is sometimes taken for 'to be imminent,' 440. Ursicinus, bishop of Cahors, to whom, though deposed, his right was preserved, but curtailed and restricted, 495. Ursicinus, bishop of Turin, 1022. Gregory demands that the parishes taken from Ursicinus be restored, 1022, 1023. Ursicinus, who wrote against John, bishop of Ravenna, is to be restrained, 720. The monk Ursus, summoned by another monk who was dying, though far distant, dies, 425, 428. Ursus ministers to Florentius, servant of God, 309; he pastures the sheep, ibid. Ustica, an island of Sicily, one of the Aeolian isles, 469. Usury is forbidden by divine and canon law, 955. But what usury, and for whom, is not so certain, ibid.

Gregory approves that money be lent without interest to the tenants of the Church in time of need, 734, 735. Use and right are sometimes distinguished, 522. 'Advantage' is taken to mean 'occupation,' 591, 592. Utinum (Udine), a town in the province of Friuli having a patriarchal see, which was transferred to Aquileia, 502. Utriculum, a town of Umbria, 299. Its various names, ibid. The bishop of Utriculum: Dominicus, 1291. What it signifies that a man is bidden to take the wife of his deceased brother, 6. What it means to spit in the face of a man who refuses to take her, 7. What it means to have a wife as though not having one, 79. Valdarichus, 1191. Valentinianus, first abbot of the Lateran monastery, 208. Valentinianus, a monk of Gregory's monastery, whose death is foretold, 409.

Valentinus, the abbot under whom Gregory professed the monastic life, 172. Valentinus, an abbot, 722. Valentinus, defender of the Church of Milan, a man exceedingly slippery of morals, 461. His body, buried in the church of the blessed martyr Syrus, was disinterred by night by demons and dragged outside the church, ibid. Valentinus, priest of a monastery, 954. Valentinus, an African bishop, 916. Valentio, first abbot of a monastery in the province of Valeria, then of the monastery of St. Gregory at Rome, 404. From him Gregory learned the things which he relates concerning a certain priest in his Dialogues, 329, 404. On what day his memory is celebrated, 404. Valeria, a region of Latium, 164. Whence it is so called, 1042. It was called the province of the Marsi, 405.

Valerianus, a Roman priest sent to Barca in Africa for the redemption of captives, 636. Valerianus, a cleric of the Church of Fermo, 943. A notary of the same Church built an oratory on his own estate, 986. Valerianus, a monk, 758. Valerianus, an advocate at Rome, 412. Valerianus, a patrician, disdains to set any limit to his depraved ways, 460. Because the bishop of Brescia had buried this man in a church after his death, he was punished by a sudden death, ibid., 461. Health. See Salvation. What a mattock is, 304. Vanity. What those ought to consider who do evil secretly and good publicly, 95. They are whitewashed sepulchres, 95. They sell a thing of infinite price for a trifle, ibid. They live for others and die to themselves, 95.

In what manner Christ said our works are to be seen, and in what manner not to be seen, 96. If the desire of pleasing men creeps in, all the labour of a good work is done in vain, 626. Vantilonus, 1024. Vapincum or Vapingum (Gap), a city of Gaul, 1014. The bishop of Gap: Aregius, ibid. Varmaricarius, an envoy of Brunhild, 1219, 1220. And of Theoderic, 1221. See Bargoaldus. The Varronian estate, 537. Who are said to carry the vessels of the Lord, 13, 508. Who are the keepers of the vessels, 213. The sacred vessels are the minds of the faithful, ibid. The clerics of the Church of Venafro sold the sacred vessels to a Jew, 554. Laws and canons permit that sacred vessels be sold off for the redemption of captives, 859, 886. Vectanus, a count, 985.

The bars of gilded acacia wood and the rings to be inserted into the ark—what they signify, 34. Why the bars are commanded to be overlaid with gold, ibid. Why they must always remain in the rings, ibid. 'Vel' has the force of the connective 'And,' 702. Velia, a city once episcopal, of Lucania, 605. Velitrae (Velletri), a city of Campania in Italy, 578. The see of Velletri was transferred by St. Gregory to a safer place, 578, 579. To the Church of Velletri is united the Church of Tres Tabernae with all its rights and revenues, 614. The bishop of Velletri: John, 1287, 1291. See his entry. Velox, a master of soldiers, 570. The veil. Formerly virgins did not receive the veil immediately after making the vow of virginity, 692. The blessing of the veil pertained to the bishop, 693, 754.

The veil was formerly given solemnly to virgins at the altar, 693. The blessing of an abbess's veil was more solemn than that of the other nuns, 692. The most ancient custom of veiling virgins, 754. To lay aside the veiling is a sacrilege, 754. Veils hung up in churches, 1123, 1124. Venafrum (Venafro), a city of Campania in Italy, 554. The clerics of this Church sold the sacred furnishings to a Jew, which St. Gregory orders to be restored, and the clerics to be subjected to penance, 555. Let there be no venality found in ordinations, 659, 660. See Simony. Venantius, bishop of Luni, 293, 296, 297, 461. See the alphabetical Index of Letters. Venantius, bishop of Perugia, 1211. Venantius, a bishop, 1238. Venantius, a patrician and former monk, 153.

He was not a chancellor, 522. Gregory exhorts him to return more speedily to the monastic life, 523. Venantius took a wife, from whom he begot daughters Barbara and Antonina, 522, 1033. Gregory tries to recall the same man, when near to death, to the monastic habit, 522. He offers to convene a council in which his case might be argued, 524. Gregory despairs of his salvation unless he withdraws from marriage and puts on the monk's habit, 523. How solicitous Gregory was for his salvation, 1119ff. See the alphabetical Index of Letters. Venantius, a patrician of Palermo, 1183, 1208, 1228. Venantius, nephew of the patrician Opilio, 619. Poison drunk after the sign of the cross does no harm, 288. St. Benedict heals one infected by poison, 257.

'To venerate' is sometimes taken passively by Gregory, 379, 380. Venerius, bishop of Cagliari, 1303. Whether the letter of Gregory that circulates as addressed to him is genuine, 1304. Venerius, bishop of Vibo, 962. To him is committed the visitation of the Church of Tauriana, 1652. Pardon for sins of thought is easy, 86. He rightly asks pardon for his offence who first releases wrongs committed against himself, 473. Easiness of pardon is pernicious, 637. What it means to 'come to the commonwealth,' 766. Vennianus, 1039. The belly. By the name of the belly the mind is signified, 51. The belly is designated by the name of the chief of the cooks, 61. He who serves the belly is bound in the snares of the vices, 62. What the wind signifies, 56. What it means that he who observes the wind does not sow, ibid.

How the verbose are to be admonished, 54. The Word of God is partly written, partly handed down by tradition; both are to be equally venerated by the faithful, 515. In what way the divine Word was made flesh, 1168. Amid human words the heart flows away, 33. What it means to be ensnared by the words of one's own mouth, 38. From idle words one passes to harmful ones, 34, 55, 313. What an idle word is, 55. How the bashful are to be admonished, 41. Truth. Nothing is easier for speaking than the truth, 47. It is a lesser excess not to know the truth than, having known it, not to abide in it, 301. How the crafty are to be admonished, 47, 48. The bishop of Besançon: Vitalis, 1288. 'Vestiarium' is taken either for the wardrobe of garments or for the vestiary property itself, 650. The vestiarius, who has charge of the wardrobe, ibid.

There is also a second in rank after the vestiarius; and the highest is the prefect of the vestiary, ibid. Footprint. To linger at the footprints of emperors, 1130. What the vestments of the priest signify, 17, 511. Why little bells are inserted into the priest's vestments, ibid. Veteranus, priest of the Church of Salona, 1065, 1225. Those who hold the narrow way in the peace of the Church are prepared for martyrdom, 340. The steep path of the just, signified by a bridge in a vision, 432, 433, 436. 'Viaticum' is used for Eucharistic communion, 397, 733. For absolution, 397. The ancients called 'viaticum' everything that was of advantage for a secure departure from this life, 733, 926. Viaticum is not to be denied to those doing penance when death is imminent, 1250. Viator, deacon of Catania, 900.

Viator, a former tribune, 1003. Vibo, a city once episcopal of the Bruttii, now a fortress of the province of Further Calabria, 825. 'Vicarius' sometimes signifies the same as 'successor,' 1095, 1300. Other significations of this word, 1104, 1105, 1106. The Pope was formerly accustomed to appoint his vicars, either metropolitans or bishops, in provinces remote outside Italy, 487. In Sicily he commits his office to a subdeacon, ibid. The image of the great vicars, 565. They were called priests and bishops of the second order, ibid. The vicariate of the Apostolic See is sometimes granted to a place, not to a person; sometimes to a person, not to a place, 573. To what bishop of Arles this vicariate was formerly given, 781.

Gregory commits his office in the Gauls to Virgilius of Arles, 781. What his power was, 783. Alone he decided nothing except in lighter cases, 784. How he ought to conduct himself in matters of faith or greater affairs, ibid. The vicars or place-holders were formerly called senators, 593, 594. Another was set as prefect by the vicar of the City, [1076]. Under the vicar of the City there were ten provinces, ibid. What a viscount is, 909. The vicedominus. The duties of the vicedominus were various, 498. Their dignity, ibid. The vicedominus is today called the major-domo, ibid. The vicedomini were sometimes distinguished from the stewards (oeconomi), ibid. What their charge was, 498, 832. The vicedominus is to be appointed by the bishop, 1172. Or by the whole clergy, if the bishop neglects it, ibid. Victor, primate of Numidia, 715, 915, 1198, 1199, 1200.

Victor, bishop of Palermo, is ordered to come to Rome to clear himself, 557. The examination of his case is committed to abbot Marinianus and the notary Benenatus, 642, 643. If he is guilty, he is to be deprived of communion and shut up in a monastery, 643. He is charged with negligence concerning a monastery, 732. For synagogues of the Jews unjustly seized and rashly consecrated, he is ordered to pay the price, 973, 974. See the alphabetical Index of Letters. Victor, bishop of Fausiana in Sardinia, 932, 1093. He is engaged in converting the idolaters in Sardinia, 1106. Victor, deacon of Carthage, 609. What victors are called in a field within the walls, 45. Victory. Without the toil of contest there is no palm of victory, 325.

Victory is to be attributed not to the valour of soldiers but to the will of God, 678. A more excellent victory is born of despair, one that has been won by the sweat of exceeding toil, 776. Victoria, when the goods of the monastery of St. Martin in Sicily had been scattered, aspired to the office of prioress and afterwards of abbess, 732. Gregory orders her to be examined, and, having restored what she had given, to be sent away into another monastery, ibid. Victorianus, a priest, 1044. Victorinus, bishop of Taormina, 558. Victorinus, deacon of Numidia, 659, 660. Victorius composed the Paschal cycle in the middle of the fifth century, 1037. The Scots and St. Columban rejected this cycle, 1037. Columban demands that it be rejected by the Roman Church, 1038. The care of widows pertains to the bishops, 499.

It was granted to the bishops by emperors and kings to protect their causes, 627. The canons forbid the widows of clerics, their husbands dead, to marry again, 716. A widow whose husband abstained from his ministry is not bound by this law, 717. Why second marriages are forbidden to the widows of clerics, 716. Vienne, a city of the Gauls, for a time a rival of the Church of Arles, 831. The breast bared of the breastplate of vigilance lies open to darts, 89, 90. The vigilant mind is like the steersman of a ship, 90. A mind sleeping from care of its own solicitude is beaten and feels no pain, 90. It is dragged and does not perceive it, 90. Under the protection of God one must keep watch, 328. How useful is a cautious provision against faults, 976. Gregory asks that the household of Vigildus be released, 571.

Pope Vigilius, wavering concerning the Fifth Council and the Three Chapters to be condemned, 615. He gave occasion to schism, or added force to it, 682. He condemned the Empress Theodora and the Acephali, 615. And Theodore, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, 616. Vigilius exercised the office of the prefecture of Milan before John, 953. Vincentius, bishop of Sardinia, 932. Vincentius, deacon of the Church of Lamigga, complained to Gregory about his bishop Argentius, 566, 567. Vincentius, a monk of Lérins, 1401. Vincomalus is appointed defender of the Church, 756, 823. Vintarith, 1242. What wine signifies, 23. Who is the Lord who bestows his wine upon us, 73. Tregestum. See Tergestum.

The tremissis is a third part of a gold solidus, 570, 707, 734. It was nearly equivalent to our silver écu, 708. Tres Tabernae, a city once of Latium, 614. Its see is united to the Church of Velletri, 614. Tribulation. The fire of tribulation that does not purge the rust of the vices shows the soul to be hardened, 53. For those set in the utmost tribulations, the sole consolation is the mercy of the Creator, 1062. God has not promised His elect in this life the joys of delight, but the bitterness of tribulation, 1127. Let tribulation not overwhelm one's strength, 1233. The Council of Tribur in the year 895. It relates a story taken from Gregory's Dialogues, 107. The tribunes were of various ranks, 499. Tribunus, a cleric, 696.

Tributes profit less toward advantage if they are gathered with sin, 769. Formerly the possessions of ecclesiastics were exempt from every tribute, 1017. Tributes are to be paid even by religious, 1059. Tricala. See Trecala. The origin of the thirty Masses (trentals), 468. The Trinity. Abraham, saluting the One in the three angels, declared the subsistences of the Trinity to be of one substance, 617. Baptism is to be conferred in the name of the Trinity, 1167. Otherwise it is none, 1168. What a 'tripedica' (three-legged stool) is, 261. The devil, furnished with a tripedica, appears to St. Benedict, ibid. How the sad are to be admonished, 37. The sad readily have anger close at hand, ibid. Wheat. By the measure of wheat the measure of the word is expressed, 99. Wheat multiplied by a miracle, 192.

What the letter T signifies, 426. Tropaea (Tropea), a city of Calabria, 569. The monks of Tropea, if they live religiously, are to be aided, ibid. Tudertum (Todi), an episcopal city in Umbria, 192. The bishops of Todi: Fortunatus, 190. See his entry. Sabinianus, 1288. Tullianus, a master of the soldiery, 900. Tullus, that is, 'taken away,' 608, 973, 974, 1035, 1107, 1108. The tunic. By the tunic the Roman ranks were distinguished, 1012. In what respect tunics differ from dalmatics, ibid. Of the Turres: bishop Pelagius, 830. Turris (Porto Torres), an episcopal city in Sardinia, 550. The visitation of its Church is committed, 1052. The bishop of Torres: Marinianus, 550, 932.

Gregory orders that guardians be given to the wards of the Church's tenants, who may govern their goods, 535. A guardian is forbidden to marry his ward, 575. The timbrel. What it means to praise God on the timbrel but not in the choir, 68. What it means to praise God on the timbrel and in the choir, 880. Tyndaris, a city once episcopal in Sicily, 672, 994. The bishop of Tyndaris: Eutychius, 672. What it signifies, 135. What it means for the breasts to be pressed in Egypt, 82. The 'ulna' (ell) is sometimes taken for a cubit, sometimes for the space to which both hands are extended, 671. Vengeance. Some seek out vengeance not at once but long after injuries have been inflicted, 44, 45. To whom they are like, 45.

Mildness has more strength in correction, when kept within measure, than severity in carrying out vengeance, 1031. The mutual harmony of the prelates of the Church is to be more zealously fostered, 879. An ounce is of five hundred and seventy grains, 708. In an ounce there are six solidi, 648, 708. Nine ounces, that is, three quarters of a thing, 537. An heir to six ounces, that is, an heir of the half part of the succession, 537, 539, 626. An heir to eight ounces, that is, one who obtains two of three parts, 577, 990. An heir to four ounces, that is, one who obtains only one of three parts, 673, 990. An heir to one ounce, 1189, 1190. The cause of the union of churches is the advantage or necessity of the Church, 495. How many are the reasons for one church to be united to another, ibid.

Churches are united in three ways, ibid. The Church of Carina is united to that of Reggio, 597, 799. The Church of Cumae is united to that of Minturno, 495. The Church of Tres Tabernae is united to that of Velletri, 614. With what zeal unity is to be procured, 972. The name of 'universal bishop' is called by Gregory a name of error, 742. A foolish and proud term, ibid. A perverse term, 742, 743. An impious term, 745, 850. A wicked term, 747. A name of blasphemy, in which the honour of all priests is taken away, 749, 771. A word of pride, through which grave scandal is engendered in the churches, 878. By this term he says the whole faith of the Church is corrupted, 873. In this title Gregory is found [to oppose it], 749, 881, 984.

Gregory is wrongly reproached, as though he gave place to scandal for no cause, 873, 881. The title of 'universal bishop' was offered in the Council of Chalcedon in certain petitions to the Roman pontiffs, 743, 749, 750, 771, 919. But none of them wished to usurp it for himself, 749, 771, 919. Pope Hadrian contended over this title with Tarasius in the Seventh Synod, 749. Gregory refused it when offered to him, 771, 919. In what sense the Greeks conferred the title of 'ecumenical' upon their patriarch, 749, 772. What it signifies, 190. Urbanus, abbot of a monastery outside Cagliari, 1107. Urbicus, a provost, 596, 732. He is said to be abbot of the monastery of St. Hermes at Palermo, 824. Who he was, 1136. He is charged with imprudence, 1135ff.

He is rather harshly rebuked by Gregory, 1137. See the alphabetical Index [of Letters]. The election of Urbicus to be bishop of Palermo is approved, 1228. Why one reluctant is not to be compelled, ibid. Urbicus, a defender, 639. Urbicus, husband of the lady Palatina, 528. Urbinum (Urbino), a city of Umbria, 641. The bishop of Urbino: Leontius, 641, 774. Urbitius, bishop of Dyrrachium, 892, 893. Urbs Vetus (Orvieto), an episcopal city of Etruria, 498. The bishop of Orvieto: John, 498. 'To urge' is sometimes taken by profane authors for 'to be imminent,' 410. Ursicinus, bishop of Cahors, to whom, being deposed, his right was preserved, but mutilated and restricted, 495. Ursicinus, bishop of Turin, 1022. Gregory demands that the parishes taken from Ursicinus be restored to him, 1022, 1023.

Ursicinus, who wrote against John of Ravenna, is to be restrained, 720. Ursus, a monk, is summoned by another monk who was dying, though far distant, and dies, 425, 428. Ursus ministers to Florentius, the servant of God, 309. He pastures the sheep, ibid. Ustica, an island of Sicily, one of the Aeolian isles, 469. Usury is forbidden by divine and canon law, 953. But what exactly usury is, and for whom, is not so certain, ibid. Gregory approves that money be lent without interest to the tenants of the Church in time of need, 734, 735. Use and right are sometimes separated, 522. 'Advantage' is taken for 'occupation,' 591, 592. Utinum (Udine), a city in the province of Friuli having a patriarchal see, which was transferred to Aquileia, 502. Utriculum, a town of Umbria, 299. Its various names, ibid.