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Gregorius Felici episcopo 8 Sipontino. Pervenit ad nos quod h Canusina ecclesia ita sit sacerdotii officio destituta, ut nec poenitentia ibidem decedentibus, nec baptisma præstari possit infantibus. Hujus igitur tam piæ rei 547 tamque necessariae mole permoti. jubemus dilectioni tuae ut, hujus praeceptionis auctoritate Commonitus, memoratae ecclesiæ visitator accedas, et vel duos parochiales presbyteros debeas ordinare; quos tamen dignos ad tale officiunt veneratione vitæ et morum gravitate pervideris, et quibus in nullo obvient constituta ca nonicæ disciplinæ, ut sanctae condigna cautela provideatur eeclesiae.
額我略致西龐托的主教費利克斯。我們得知，卡努西烏姆教會如此缺乏司鐸的職務，以致既不能為當地垂死之人施行補贖，也不能為嬰孩施行洗禮。因此，我們被這樁如此虔敬、又如此迫切之事的重擔所觸動，命令你的親愛者：你受此訓令權柄的勸勉後，當以巡視者身分前往前述教會，並當至少祝聖兩位堂區司鐸；然而，你當察明他們憑其生活的可敬與品行的端重而配得此職，且教規紀律的規定在任何方面都不與他們相牴觸，好使那神聖的教會可得相稱的保障。
Gregory to Felix, bishop of Siponto. It has come to us that the Church of Canusium is so destitute of the office of the priesthood that neither can penance be granted to the dying there, nor baptism be administered to infants. Moved therefore by the burden of this so pious and so necessary a matter, we command your Beloved that, admonished by the authority of this injunction, you should go as visitor to the aforementioned Church, and ought to ordain at least two parochial presbyters; whom, however, you shall have discerned to be worthy of such an office by the reverence of their life and the gravity of their morals, and against whom the constitutions of canonical discipline in no way stand, so that fitting safeguard may be provided for the holy Church.