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Gregorius Joanni episcopo a Calliopolitano. Ex gestis quae ad noa fraternitas tua direxit, invenlum est Andream fratrem et coepiscopum nostrum habuisse siue dubio concubinam. Sed quia incertum est si eam in sacro ordine constitutus contigerit, necesse est ut eum sollicita adhortatione commoneas, ut si positus in sacro ordine cum ea se norit immistum, ab eo quo est officio quiescat, et nullatenus administrare præsumat. Quod si forte conscius sibi hujus rei peccatum suum supprimens administrare. præsumpserit, animae suae periculum divino judicio inminere cognoscat.
額我略致卡利波利斯主教若望。從你的弟兄之情轉呈給我們的案卷中，已查明我們的兄弟與同僚主教安德肋無疑蓄養了一名妾。但因不確定他是否在身居聖秩時與她有染，故必須以審慎的勸誡告誡他：倘若他身居聖秩卻自知曾與她苟合，就當停止他現有的職務，切不可擅自供職。但倘若他或許自知有此事，卻隱瞞己罪而擅自供職，就當知道靈魂的危險必藉著天主的審判臨到他。
Gregory to John, bishop of Callipolis. From the proceedings which Your Fraternity has forwarded to us, it has been found that Andreas, our brother and fellow bishop, has without doubt kept a concubine. But because it is uncertain whether he had to do with her while set in holy orders, it is necessary that you admonish him with careful exhortation, so that, if while placed in holy orders he knows himself to have been mingled with her, he cease from the office in which he is, and by no means presume to minister. But if perchance, conscious of this matter to himself, he suppress his sin and presume to minister, let him know that the peril of his soul threatens him by the divine judgment.
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b Matriculam vero quam fecit fustibus castigari, quamvis exinde post octo menses obiisse non credimus, quia tamen eam contra propositi sui ordinem hujusmodi fecit affligi, duobus hunc mensibus a missarum solemnitate suspende, ut vel hæc eum verecundia qualem se de caetero possit elbibere, instituat. Praeterea, oblata nobis petitione, quæ tenetur in subditis, clerici predicti episcopi multa se mala ab eo sustinere commemorant. Ob quam rem fraternitas tua subtiliter cuncta curet addiscere, et ita ea ratio. nabili modo emendare atque disponere, ut nulla eis pro bac re buc remeandi de cætero necessitas impo* natur. c Mense Julio, indictione ii. (Vid. sup. ep. 44. Cf. Joan. Diac. I. IV, c. 27.)
至於他命人用棍棒責打的那名濟貧婦人——雖然我們不相信她在八個月後因此而死，但因他違背自己職分的體統而如此使她受苦——你當停止他主持彌撒的隆重禮儀兩個月，好使至少這份羞愧能教導他，此後當表現為何等樣的人。此外，就一份呈給我們、關於他屬下之人的請願書而言，上述主教的聖職人員陳述說，他們在他手下遭受許多惡待。為此，願你的弟兄之情細心查明一切，並以合理的方式加以糾正與處置，好使他們此後不致因此事被迫再度來到此處。時值七月，第二個小紀年。
As for the almswoman whom he caused to be chastised with cudgels—although we do not believe that she died from it after eight months, yet because he caused her to be afflicted in this manner contrary to the order of his own calling—suspend him from the solemnity of the Masses for two months, so that at least this shame may school him as to what sort of man he ought henceforth to show himself. Moreover, upon a petition offered to us concerning those under his charge, the clergy of the aforesaid bishop record that they suffer many evils at his hand. On which account let Your Fraternity take care to learn all things carefully, and so to amend and dispose them in a reasonable manner that no necessity be henceforth imposed upon them of returning hither on this matter. In the month of July, in the second indiction.