教牧守則·對話錄與書信 第 529 章

Gregory to Serenus, bishop of Ancona. The most reverend man Passivus, our brother and fellow-bishop, coming here, has indicated that the silver of his Church was deposited by his predecessor Fabius with your deacon Serenus, according to the quality of the time. Of which, some part having been restored, he asserts that a part lies with him still, and that he defers to restore it under some excuse. Accordingly, we exhort Your Fraternity by these words that you be zealous to admonish him, that he restore without contention what he received.

But if perchance he is confident that he can be excused by some reason from restoring it, it is necessary that you, together with our brother and fellow-bishop Armenius, take cognizance between him and the agents of the Church of Fermo, and, the truth being subtly examined, that you impose an end to this cause, so that neither may the aforesaid deacon suffer prejudice, nor may the aforesaid Church seem to sustain unjust loss.