Pastoral Rule, Dialogues & Letters 845 part 28/29

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 entrusted 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 accused of negligence concerning the monastery, 732. He is ordered to pay the price for the Jewish synagogues unjustly occupied and rashly consecrated, 973, 974. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Victor, bishop of Fausiana in Sardinia, 932, 1093. He devotes himself to converting the idolaters in Sardinia, 1106. Victor, deacon of Carthage, 609. Which victors on the field within the walls are captured, 45. Victory.

Without the labor of the contest, there is no palm of victory, 325. Victory is to be attributed not to the valor of the soldiers, but to the will of God, 678. A more excellent victory is born of desperation, which has been won by the sweat of exceeding toil, 776. Victoria, when the goods of the monastery of Saint Martin in Sicily had been scattered, aspired to the office of prioress and afterward of abbess, 732. Gregory orders that she be examined and, having restored what she had given, be dismissed into another monastery, ibid. Victorianus, priest, 1044. Victorinus, bishop of Taormina, 558. Victorinus, deacon of Numidia, 599, 660. Victorius composed the Paschal cycle in the middle of the fifth century, 1037. The Scots and Saint Columban rejected this cycle, 1037. Columban demands that this be rejected by the Roman Church, 1038.

The care of widows pertains to the bishops, 499. It was granted to bishops by emperors and kings to defend their causes, 627. The canons forbid the widows of clerics, when their husbands are 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 some time a rival of the Church of Arles, 831. The breast bared of the breastplate of vigilance lies open to darts, 89, 90. A vigilant mind is like the helmsman of a ship, 90. A mind sleeping from care for its own solicitude is beaten and does not grieve, 90. It is dragged and does not feel it, 90. One must keep watch under the protection of God, 328. How useful is the cautious foresight of faults, 976.

Gregory asks that the household of Vigildus be released, 571. Pope Vigilius, uncertain about the Fifth Council and the Three Chapters to be condemned, 615. He gave occasion to 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, bishop of Sardinia, 932. Vincentius, deacon of the Church of Lamigo, complained to Gregory about his bishop Argentius, 566, 567. Vincentius of Lérins, a monk, 1101. Vincomalus is appointed defender of the Church, 756, 823. Vintarith, 1242. What wine signifies, 23. How the Lord bestows His wine upon us, 73. Tregestum. See Tergestum.

The tremissis, the third part of a gold solidus, 570, 707, 734. It was equivalent to about our silver crown, 708. Tres-Tabernae, formerly a city of Latium, 614. Its see is united to the Church of Velitrae, 614. Tribulation. The fire of tribulation, when it does not purge away the rust of vices, shows the soul to be hardened, 53. For those placed in the greatest 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 bitterness of tribulation, 1127. Let tribulation not crush one's strength, 1233. The Council of Tribur in 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 usefulness if they are collected with sin, 769. Formerly the possessions of ecclesiastics were exempt from all tribute, 1017. Tributes are to be paid even by religious, 1059. Tricala. See Trecala. The origin of the trentals of Masses, 468. Trinity. Abraham, saluting the three angels as one, 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 null, 1168. What the tripedica is, 261. The devil appears to Saint Benedict furnished with a tripedica, ibid. Which sad persons are to be admonished, 37. The sad readily fall into anger, ibid. Wheat. By the measure of wheat the manner of the word is expressed, 99. Wheat multiplied by a miracle, 192.

What it signifies, 426. Tropea, a city of Calabria, 569. The monks of Tropea, if they live in a religious manner, are to be assisted, ibid. Todi, an episcopal city in Umbria, 192. The bishops of Todi: Fortunatus, 190. See his heading. Sabinianus, 1288. Tullianus, master of the soldiery, 900. Tultus, that is, one carried off, 608, 973, 974, 1035, 1107, 1108. Tunic. By the tunic the Roman ranks were distinguished, 1012. In what way tunics differ from dalmatics, ibid. Of Turin, the bishop Pelagius, 830. Turris, an episcopal city in Sardinia, 550. The visitation of its Church is entrusted, 1052. The bishop of Turris, Marinianus, 550, 932. Gregory orders that guardians be given to the orphans 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, formerly an episcopal city in Sicily, 672, 994. The bishop of Tyndaris, Eutychius, 672. What it signifies, 435. What it means for the breasts to be pressed in Egypt, 82. The ell is sometimes taken for the cubit, sometimes for the span to which both hands are extended, 671. Vengeance. Some do not seek vengeance at once, but long after injuries have been inflicted, 44, 45. To whom these are like, 45. Discreet leniency in correction has more power than strictness in exacting vengeance, 1051. The mutual harmony of the prelates of the Church is to be fostered more zealously, 879.

An ounce is of five hundred and seventy-six grains, 708. Six solidi to an ounce, 648, 708. Nine ounces, that is three quarters of any thing, 537. An heir in six ounces, that is, the heir of the middle part of the succession, 537, 539, 626. An heir in eight ounces, obtaining two of three parts, 577, 990. An heir in four ounces, that is, one who obtains only one part of three, 673, 990. An heir in one ounce, 1189, 1190. The cause of the union of Churches is the advantage or necessity of the Church, 495. How many reasons there are for uniting one Church to another, ibid. Churches are united in three ways, ibid. The Church of Carina is united to that of Reggio, 597, 799. Cumae is united to Misenum, 606. Formiae is united to Minturnae, 493. The Church of Tres Tabernae is united to that of Velitrae, 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 unspeakable term, 745, 850. A wicked term, 747. A name of blasphemy in which the honor of all priests is taken away, 749, 771. A word of pride, through which grave scandal is generated in the churches, 878. By this term he says the whole faith of the Church is corrupted, 873. Gregory is found under this heading, 749, 831, 984. Gregory is wrongly accused, as though he gave occasion to scandal for no cause, 873, 881. The title of universal bishop was offered in the Council of Chalcedon in certain petitionary documents to the Roman pontiffs, 743, 749, 750, 771, 919.

But none of them wished to usurp this to himself, 749, 771, 919. Pope Hadrian in the Seventh Synod contended with Tarasius about this title, 749. Gregory rejected this when it was offered to him, 771, 919. In what sense the Greeks attributed the title of ecumenical to their patriarch, 749, 772. What it signifies, 190. Urbanus, abbot of a monastery outside Cagliari, 1107. Urbicus, provost, 596, 732. He is said to be abbot of the monastery of Saint Hermes at Palermo, 824. Who he was, 1136. He is accused of imprudence, 1136 and following. He is rather harshly rebuked by Gregory, 1137. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. The election of Urbicus to be bishop of Palermo is approved, 1228. Why one who resists is not to be compelled, ibid. Urbicus, defender, 639. Urbicus, husband of the lady Palatina, 528.

Urbinum, a city of Umbria, 641. The bishop of Urbino, Leontius, 641, 774. Urbitius, bishop of Dyrrachium, 898, 983. Urbs Vetus (Orvieto), an episcopal city of Etruria, 498. The bishop of Urbs Vetus, John, 498. Among profane authors, 'urgere' (to press) is sometimes taken for 'to be imminent,' 410. Ursicinus, bishop of Cahors, to whom, when deposed, his right was preserved, but curtailed and restricted, 495. Ursicinus, bishop of Turin, 1022. Gregory demands that the parishes taken away be restored to Ursicinus, 1022, 1023. Ursicinus, who wrote against John, bishop of Ravenna, is to be restrained, 720. Ursus, a monk, though far distant, was summoned by another dying monk and merited it, 425, 428. Ursus ministers to Florentius, servant of God, 309. He pastures sheep, ibid.

Ustica, an island of Sicily, one of the Aeolian islands, 469. Usury is forbidden by divine and canon law, 955. But what precisely is usury, and to whom it applies, is not so certain, ibid. It pleases Gregory that money be lent to the Church's tenants in necessity, without interest, 734, 735. Use and right are sometimes separated, 522. Usefulness is taken for occupation, 591, 592. Utinum (Udine), a city in the province of Friuli, having its patriarchal see, transferred to Aquileia, 502. Otricoli, a town of Umbria, 299. Its various names, ibid. The bishop of Otricoli, Dominicus, 1291. What it signifies for a brother to refuse to take the wife of his deceased brother, 6. What it means to spit in the face of a woman unwilling to be taken, 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 the Gregorian monastery, whose death is foretold, 409. Valentinus, the abbot under whom Gregory professed the monastic life, 172. Valentinus, abbot, 722. Valentinus, defender of the Church of Milan, a very unsteady man, 461. Demons at night dug up his body, buried in the church of the blessed martyr Syrus, and dragged it outside the church, ibid. Valentinus, priest of the monastery, 954. Valentio, an African bishop, 916. Valentio, first abbot of a monastery in the province of Valeria, then of the monastery of Saint Gregory at Rome, 404. From him Gregory learned the things which he relates about 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 to ransom captives, 636. Valerianus, cleric of the Church of Fermo, 943. The notary of the same Church built an oratory on his own estate, 986. Valerianus, a monk, 756. Valerianus, an advocate at Rome, 412. Valerianus, a patrician, disdains to set a limit to his depraved ways, 460. Because the bishop of Brescia buried him in the church after his death, he was punished with a sudden death, ibid., 461. Health. See Salus. What the mattock is, 304. Vanity. What those ought to consider who do evil secretly and good publicly, 95. They are whitened sepulchres, 95. They sell a thing of infinite price for a paltry sum, 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 they are not to be seen, 96. If the appetite for pleasing men creeps in, all the labor of a good work is done in vain, 626. Vantilo, 1024. Vapincum (Gap), a city of Gaul, 1011. The bishop of Gap, Aregius, ibid. Varmaricarius, envoy of Brunhilda, 1219, 1220. And of Theoderic, 1221. See Bargoaldus. The estate of Varro (Varroniana massa), 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 sacred vessels to be sold for the redemption of captives, 859, 886. Vectanus, a count, 985.

What the gilded bars of shittim wood and the rings to be inserted into the ark signify, 4. Why the bars are ordered to be overlaid with gold, ibid. Why they must always be in the rings, ibid. 'Vel' (or) has the force of the copulative 'and,' 702. Velia, formerly an episcopal city of Lucania, 605. Velletri, a city of Campania in Italy, 578. The see of Velletri was transferred by Saint Gregory to a safer place, 578, 579. The Church of Tres Tabernae is united to the Church of Velletri with all its rights and revenues, 614. See its heading. Velox, master of the soldiery, 570. The veil. Virgins formerly did not receive the veil immediately after making the vow of virginity, 692. The blessing of the veil belonged to the bishop, 693, 754. The veil was formerly solemnly given to virgins at the altar, 693.

The blessing of the veil for an abbess was more solemn than that of the other nuns, 692. The custom of veiling virgins is most ancient, 754. It is a sacrilege to lay aside the veiling, 754. Veils hung up in churches, 1123, 1124. Venafro, a city of Campania in Italy, 554. The clerics of this Church sold the sacred furnishings to a Jew, which Saint Gregory orders to be restored, and the clerics to be subjected to penance, 555. Let there be no venality in ordinations, 639, 660. See Simony. Venantius, bishop of Luni, 293, 296, 297, 660. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Venantius, bishop of Perugia, 1211. Venantius, bishop, 1238. Venantius, a patrician and former monk, 153. He was not chancellor, 522.

Gregory exhorts him to return more quickly to the monastic life, 523. Venantius took a wife, from whom he begot daughters Barbara and Antonina, 522, 1033. Gregory endeavors to recall him, when near death, to the monastic habit, 522. He offers to convene a council in which his case may be discussed, 524. Gregory despairs of his salvation unless he withdraws from his refuge and puts on the monk's habit, 523. How solicitous Gregory was for his salvation, 1119 and following. See the alphabetical index of the 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. Saint Benedict heals one infected with poison, 257.

Venerari (to venerate) is sometimes taken by Gregory in a passive sense, 379, 380. Venerius, bishop of Cagliari, 1303. Whether the letter of Gregory circulated under his name is genuine, 1304. Venerius, bishop of Vibo, 962. To him is entrusted the visitation of the church of Tauriana, 1652. Pardon for sins of thought is easily obtained, 86. He rightly asks pardon for a fault who first forgives what has been committed against himself, 473. An easy readiness to pardon is pernicious, 637. What it is 'to come to public affairs,' 766. Vennianus, 1039. The belly. By the name of the belly the mind is signified, 51. The belly is signified by the name of the chief of the cooks, 61. He who serves the belly is bound fast by the snares of the vices, 62. What the wind signifies, 56. What it is that 'he who observes the wind does not sow,' ibid.

Concerning the verbose, how they should be admonished, 54. The Word of God, one part written, another handed down; both alike to be venerated by the faithful, 515. How the divine Word was made flesh, 1168. Amid human words the heart flows away, 33. What it is to be ensnared by the words of one's own mouth, 38. From idle words one arrives at harmful ones, 34, 35, 313. What an idle word is, 53. Concerning the bashful, how they should be admonished, 41. Truth. Nothing is easier to speak than the truth, 47. It is a lesser fault not to know the truth than, having known it, not to abide in it, 301. Concerning the crafty (versipelles), how they should be admonished, 47, 48. Vitalis, bishop of Besançon, 1288. 'Vestiarium' is taken either for the wardrobe of garments or for the vestiary property itself, 650. The vestiarius, who has charge of the vestiary, ibid.

There is also a second officer after the vestiarius; and a supreme prefect of the vestiary, ibid. Footstep. To linger at the footsteps of emperors, 1130. What the priest's vestments signify, 17, 511. Why little bells are inserted into the priest's vestments, ibid. Veteranus, presbyter of the church of Salona, 1065, 1223. Those who hold the narrow way in the peace of the Church are prepared for martyrdom, 340. The way of the just, driven over a bridge, signified in a vision, 432, 433, 436. 'Viaticum' is used for the Eucharistic communion, 397, 733. And for absolution, 397. The ancients called 'viaticum' everything that aided a safe departure from this life, 733, 926. The viaticum is not to be denied to those doing penance when death is imminent, 1250. Viator, deacon of Catania, 900.

Viator, former tribune, 1003. Vibo, a city once episcopal of the Bruttii, now a fortress of the province of further Calabria, 825. 'Vicarius' sometimes means the same as successor, 1095, 1300. Other meanings of this word, 1104, 1105, 1106. The Pope was formerly accustomed to appoint his vicars, metropolitans or bishops, in remote provinces outside Italy, 487. In Sicily he commits his office to a subdeacon, ibid. 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. What vicariate was formerly given to the bishop of Arles, 781.

To Virgilius of Arles Gregory commits his office in the Gauls, 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 in greater affairs, ibid. The vicars, or lieutenants, were formerly called senators, 593, 594. The prefect of the City was distinct from the vicar of the City, 1076. Under the vicar of the City there were ten provinces, ibid. What a viscount (vicecomes) is, 909. Vicedominus. The duties of the vicedominus were various, 498. Their dignity, ibid. The vicedominus is today called the major domus, ibid. Sometimes the vicedomini were distinguished from the stewards (oeconomi), ibid. What their charge was, 498, 832. The vicedominus is to be instructed by the bishop, 1172. Or by the whole clergy, if the bishop neglect 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. He is ordered to pay a price for Jewish synagogues unjustly occupied and rashly consecrated, 973, 974. See the alphabetical Index of Letters. Victor, bishop of Phausiana in Sardinia, 932, 1093. He labors in converting the idolaters of Sardinia, 1106. Victor, deacon of Carthage, 609. Which victors 'in the field within the walls' are caught, 45. Victory.

Without the toil of contest there is no palm of victory, 325. Victory is to be attributed not to the valor of the soldiers, but to the will of God, 678. A more excellent victory is born from despair, one won by the sweat of excessive labor, 776. Victoria, when the goods of the monastery of St. Martin in Sicily had been dispersed, sought the office of prioress and afterward of abbess, 732. Gregory orders her to be examined, and, when what she had given has been restored, to be dismissed to another monastery, ibid. Victorianus, presbyter, 1044. Victorinus, bishop of Taormina, 558. Victorinus, deacon of Numidia, 699, 660. Victorius composed a Paschal cycle in the middle of the fifth century, 1037. The Scots and St. Columban rejected this cycle, 1037. Columban demands that this cycle be rejected by the Roman Church, 1038.

The care of widows pertains to the bishops, 499. It has been granted to bishops by emperors and kings to protect their causes, 627. The canons forbid the widows of clerics, when their husbands have died, to marry again, 716. 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 the Gauls, for a time a rival of the church of Arles, 831. The breast stripped of the breastplate of vigilance lies open to darts, 89, 90. A vigilant mind is like the steersman of a ship, 90. A mind sleeping through care for its own solicitude is beaten and feels no pain, 90. It is dragged and does not feel it, 90. One must be vigilant under God's protection, 328. How useful is a wary foresight of faults, 976.

Gregory asks that the household of Vigildus be released, 571. Pope Vigilius, doubtful 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, bishop of Sardinia, 932. Vincentius, deacon of the church of Lamego, complained to Gregory about his bishop Argentius, 566, 567. Vincentius of Lérins, monk, 1101. Vincomalus is appointed defender of the Church, 756, 823. Vintarith, 1242. What wine signifies, 23.

That the Lord may furnish us His wine, 73. What the wine with oil, poured on the wounds by the Samaritan, signifies, 514. How wine is to be used on days of fasting, 1303. Wine increases by prayers, 185, 189. 'Violently,' that is, reluctantly, unwillingly, 693. To coerce the violent is not to act against the laws, but to bring aid to the law, 627. Man. How men are to be admonished, 35. What the rod signifies, 23. Virgilius, from being abbot either of Lérins or of Autun, is made bishop of Arles, 541. Having heard of Gregory's consecration, he wrote him a letter of congratulation, 541. The use of the pallium, and the vicariate of the apostolic see, are granted to him according to ancient custom, 781, 783, 784, 785.

To him even the greater causes of bishops in the first instance are committed, 783, 784. It was permitted to him to convene councils as often as he judged necessary, 784. He is charged with negligence, 1021. See the alphabetical Index of Letters. Virginity. Humility is to be preserved in virginity, 83. Virginity: how it is a word that not all can receive, 83. Some in a better order are worse, and some in a worse order are better, 83. What the foolish virgins not taking oil, and the wise ones, signify, 1126. Virgin. Eunuchs are called virgins, 83. Virgins in a special way sing the song to the Lamb, ibid. How those inexperienced in sinning are to be admonished, 83. Those who ravish a virgin, and those favoring them, are excommunicated, 1293. How ravishers of virgins are to be regarded. See Ravisher (Stuprator).

Virigantinus, a monk to whom Gregory orders help to be brought, 726. Virtue. What fortifications of the virtues are necessary, 31. The virtues of the soul are destroyed through lust, 61. Before the virtues are grafted in, the vices are to be uprooted, 93, 94. If virtue does not increase, it must decrease, 94. To go backward on the road of virtue is most perilous, ibid. The pitfall of the mind is the memory of virtue, 99. Virtue struggles against the vices, 99. How virtue is handed over into captivity, 101. The examples of virtues are to be preferred to miracles, 115. The followers of virtue do not gain profit for themselves alone, 121. It is easy to feign virtue, difficult to possess virtue, 1269. Virtue is nothing but the highest love of God, ibid.

Vices for the most part pretend that they are virtues, 28, 59, 514. Force and right are opposed, 693. Things done by force are held to be invalid in law, 842. Things visible are seen through things invisible, 381. Why many of the just enjoy visions at death, 389. Which visions are to be examined, ibid. Visions with which certain saints were deemed worthy in the article of death, 389, 392, 393, 396, 397, 400, 404, 409, 420, 425, 432. Nocturnal visions with which monks of holy life were deemed worthy, 453, 456. Visitor. It belonged to the metropolitan to delegate bishops as visitors to desolate churches, 501. There were other visitors who were not bishops, ibid. When a bishop died or otherwise failed, another bishop in the same province undertook the burden of visitation, 501, 562, 823, 824.

Visitors were sometimes designated by the king, 562. Let the visitor of a church not be elected to be its bishop, 575. The visitor could not involve himself in the promotions of clerics without a special mandate, 588, 600, 601, 1227. To visitors is given license to ordain presbyters and deacons in the churches committed to them, 501, 562, 575, 605, 721, 824. To Leontius, visitor of the church of Rimini, the same license is denied, 641. And afterward it is granted to him, 774. To a visitor it is granted to celebrate manumissions, 575. It belonged to the visitor to seek out someone worthy to succeed the deceased bishop, 588, 722, 808, 862, and elsewhere. Whose election he ought to strengthen by his testimony, 601, 720, 808, 1032, 1227, and elsewhere.

He ought to permit none from another church to be elected, unless perhaps no worthy one were found, 588, 601, 1227, and elsewhere. It belonged to the visitor to guard and defend the goods of the bishop and of the widowed church, 588, 600, 737, 738, 753, 774, 808, 862, 987, 988, 993, 1052. The visitor bishop also had charge of the monasteries, 601, 808, 1227. The office of the visitor in spiritual matters, 737, 738, 808, 987. The peoples ought to obey the visitors as their own bishops, 642, 738, 753, 989, 996, 1228, and elsewhere. Stipends are to be granted to the visitors and their clerics, 692. Gregory orders that a hundred solidi with one slave be given to Paulus of Nepi, retiring from the visitation, for his labor, 649.

Let a fourth part of the goods of the church assigned to the bishop pass to the visitor in place of a stipend, 737. Visitation is enjoined for the churches: of Agrigento, 737. Of Rimini, 548, 549, 641. Of Brindisi, 807. Of Capua, 737. Of Crotone, 600. Of Cumae, 587. Of three churches, 605. Of Formia, 862. Of Gallipoli, 807. Of Ortona, 721. Of Interamna, 987. Of Lipari, 807. Of Naples, 575. Of Nepi, 598. Of Palermo, 1227. Of Populonia, 500. Of Ravenna, 754. Of Savona, 562. Of Tadinum, 995, 996. Life. The Christian life is to be estimated not from signs, but from works, 205. Pressed by the weight of human miseries, men in this life should groan rather than rejoice, 854. Our life is like one sailing, 875. The present life is a pilgrimage, 1175.