Gregory to Candidus the defensor. It befits the pontifical office to be present with aid to those suffering necessity. For which reason we command your Experience by the present authority that you cease not to furnish each year, without any delay, two tremisses to Albinus, deprived of his sight, the son of the late colonus Martinus, not doubting that this will without question be reckoned to your accounts. Gregory to Januarius, bishop of Cagliari. It has come to us that in a place within the province of Sardinia which is called Phausiana there was a custom of ordaining a bishop, but that this had lapsed through long times owing to the pressure of affairs.
But because we have learned that now, through the lack of priests, certain pagans remain there and, living in a beastly manner, are wholly ignorant of the worship of God, we exhort your Fraternity that you hasten to ordain there a bishop according to the former manner, one namely who is fit for this work in character and in word, and who may strive with pastoral zeal to lead back those who go astray to the Lord's flock; so that, with the profit of souls being attended to there, neither may you be found to have sought something superfluous, nor may we repent of having in vain restored what was once destroyed.