Gregory to Candidus, bishop of the old city (Orvieto). Since, when a bodily stroke falls, whether it happen for purgation or for vengeance, God's judgement in this is unknown, no affliction ought to be added by us to those who are scourged, lest the offence of guilt, which God forbid, should regard us. And because the bearer of these presents, Calumniosus, asserts that on account of this stroke which he suffers the accustomed comforts are being denied him by your Church, therefore by these present letters we exhort your Fraternity, that this sickness ought in no way to hinder him from receiving the things that are customary, since, as you know, to those who serve in the Church in diverse ways, various infirmity often befalls.
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Etsihocfuerintexemplodeterriti, nullusdecaeteroqniEcclesiaemilitetpoteritiuvcniri, sedsecundumlociejnsordinemquæqueei, sisanusesset, poterantministrari, deipsaexiguitate, quaeEcclesiæpotestaccedere, fraternitastuadivinicontemplationejudiciiægrotantipraeberenondesinat, quatenusinhujusreiadministrationeadeleemosynampotiusvidearisquæsuntConsuetaexsolvendoconvertere. ( Videsup. I. I, ep. 12; Cr. Joan. Diac. t. IV, c. 33.)
And if they shall be deterred by this example, none henceforth who serves the Church will be able to be found; but according to the order of his place, whatever things could have been ministered to him if he were healthy, let your Fraternity, out of that very slenderness which can accrue to the Church, in contemplation of the divine judgement, not cease to furnish to the ailing man; so that in the administration of this matter you may be seen rather to convert to alms the customary things by paying them out. (See above, Book I, letter 12; compare John the Deacon, Book IV, chapter 33.)