Longinus was the first to bear the name of exarch, sent into Italy by the emperor Maurice against the Lombards, 521. Longinus, the equerry (strator) of the emperor Maurice, 675. Loquacity is to be guarded against by rulers, 18. How great are the evils of loquacity, 55. The justice of the mind is desolated when there is no sparing of immoderate speech, 55. Loquacity is the companion of gluttony, 61, 62. To speak. Who speaks from God and before God, 73. He speaks well who lives perfectly, 873. The bishops, with their tongues cut out by the roots, speak in defense of the truth, 348, 349. Some of them, on account of lust, had this faculty taken away, ibid. What it signifies that Lot, fleeing burning Sodom and finding Zoar, 80. Why he did not reach the right mountains, ibid.
Lot in the very perverse city was just, on the mountain he sinned, 849. Lucca, a city of Etruria, now a republic, 293. St. Frigidianus, bishop of Lucca, 293. Lucania, a province of Italy, 685. Lucas, presbyter of Thessalonica, rejects the Council of Chalcedon, 1073. What one suspected of heresy should do, 1174. Ludanus the monk devoted his effort to writing sacred books, 169. Lucidus, bishop of Leontini, 1211, 1230. Lucifer, cellarer of the monastery of Lucusium, 1137; afterward provost, 1136. Lucillus, bishop of Malta, 603. He is to be deposed in an assembly of four bishops, 979. He is ordered to restore the goods of his Church which he had taken away, 1041. Pope Lucius III received schismatics returning to the Church by a repeated ordination, 608.
Lucius, bishop of Rhegium, predecessor of Boniface, 656. Gain. What gains are to be sought in this life, 487, 488. Mourning. To go to the house of mourning is better than to the house of feasting, 377. Luculanum Castrum, an island of Campania, 506. In that fortress was built the monastery of St. Severinus, apostle of the Norici, 624. The monastery of Lucusium, founded by St. Gregory, 1136. He complains of the dissolute rule of this monastery, ibid. Its abbot, Domitius the presbyter, ibid. And its provost, Lucifer, ibid. How that monastery is called today, 949, 950. St. Louis was unwilling to interfere in the causes of priests, 699. Bishops of Lyons: Eucherius, 1101; Etherius, 830, 1217, 1219.
Lamps customarily used in churches, 333, 341, 341, 1273ff. And at the funeral rites of the dead, 927. Luminosa, a woman, widow of the tribune Zemarchus, 499. Luminosus, bishop of Ferentino, 1291. Luminosus, abbot of the monastery of Saints Andrew and Thomas at Rimini, 602. Luminosus, a servant of the Church of Grumentum, 1209. Luna, a city of Etruria, 700. Bishop of Luna: Venantius, 293. Lupus, abbot of St. Martin of Autun, 1225. May the wolf that lies in wait for the fold of sheep find the shepherd everywhere watchful and resisting, 715. Lupus, bishop of Chalon, 1144. St. Lupus, monk of Lérins and bishop of Troyes, 1101. Mud. What it means for a greedy man to heap thick mud against himself, 65. The flame of the shepherd is the light of the flock, 921.
St. Luxorius, martyr in Sardinia, 931. Lust. Stench and mist signify carnal concupiscence, 436. The cheerful have lust close at hand, 37. From gluttony arises lust, 61. Through lust the virtues of the soul are destroyed, ibid. What admonitions those need who are guilty of sins of the flesh, 81. Let them bewail past sins and shun those to come, 82. Why those who lament the fault of lust ought not to feel the harshness of discipline, 679. Those whom the stench of the flesh still delights, the same are beset by the mist of stench, 436. Lycaonia, a region of Asia Minor, 482. Lycaonia was subject to the patriarch of Constantinople, ibid. Macedonius. His heresy, 748.
The Roman Church received from the Council of Constantinople only that which was defined against Macedonius, 882. Machines formerly in use for raising immense masses on high, 881. The Church of Maguelone was transferred to Montpellier by the authority of the pope and with the consent of King Francis I, 578. Magdalen, sister of Lazarus and the sinful woman, 869. How her sins were forgiven, 869. From her mouth the resurrection of Christ was announced to the disciples, ibid. He ought not to become a master who has not been a disciple, 156. The rank of master was the highest among the patricians, 726. Among many, the master of offices was the chief, ibid. The dignity of master was called the mastership, ibid. By whom the office of teaching is believed to be a light burden, 2.
Let the unskilled not presume to undertake the office of teaching, ibid. Adversity is a useful teacher, 5. There are those who through the office of the Spirit are taught inwardly, 156. Who is fit for the school of virtue, 213. Magnitude (Greatness), a title by which Gregory sometimes addresses judges, 975, 1032, 1033, 1085. And dukes, 1018, 1097, and elsewhere. Magnus, a presbyter, 611, 1095. Unjustly excommunicated by Laurentius, bishop of Milan, he is absolved, 642. The estate of Magulianum, 651. The title of Majesty in which kings now rejoice was not in use in Gregory's time, 684. A mayor of the household is to be appointed by the bishop, 1172. Or by the whole clergy, if the bishop neglects it, ibid. What his office was, ibid. See Vicedominus. Who was the chief of the people, 1005, 1057.
Majorca, an island, 1276. Malaga, a city of the kingdom of Granada, 1251. Bishop of Malaga: Januarius, 1250. Malchus, bishop of Dalmatia, administered the patrimony of the Apostolic See in Dalmatia, 527. He is summoned to Rome to render an account of his administration, 584, 609, 640. He is forbidden to meddle in the affairs of the Church of Salona, 640, 658. He dies suddenly at Rome, 726. Maximus falsely accuses Gregory of being privy to his death, 726. Cursing is a grave sin, even if it comes from carelessness of the tongue, 312. Evildoers are to be punished, 759, 891, 1139, 1259. Malice is the mother of the vices, 44. Malice in the heart is a beam in the eye, ibid. Gregory asks that the family of Maloin be relieved, 571. Pomegranates signify the unity of the faith, 18, 511.
Evils not carried to completion do not harm, 87. How those are to be corrected who do evil secretly and good publicly, 95. They are whitewashed sepulchres, 95. Those who permit themselves to be thought evil while secretly doing good—how greatly they offend, 96. The wicked. Friendship joined with the wicked is harmful to the good and reproved by God, 70. Concord among the wicked is harmful, 71. The good always displease the wicked, 1026. They are always mingled with the good, 1127, 1128. The fellowship of the wicked is a purgation of the good, 1127. The wicked, once united, are to be borne patiently by the shepherd, if there be present good men who are aided by him, 217. The wicked in hell see the wicked in the same punishments, and the good in the kingdom, 424. St. Mamertus restored the solemn Litanies, 1284. Breast. What it means in Egypt for the breasts of puberty to be crushed, 82.
A pagan, Jew, or heretic cannot hold a Christian slave, 652, 700, 868. A slave fleeing from his master and going over to churchmen is to be restored to his master, 526. A slave may justly complain against his master and take refuge with the Church, 624. For the cause of faith, slaves were set at liberty against the will of their masters, no price being paid, 688, 818. This power was not everywhere in force, ibid. A slave is redeemed for the price of twelve solidi, 689. A pagan slave circumcised by Jews is to be set at liberty without any price of redemption, 819. Slaves unjustly detained by a bishop are to be restored, 897. Monasteries formerly made use of slaves, 898.
Slaves manumitted on condition that they become monks are not permitted to leave the monastery, 955. Why slaves were formerly sold in the presence of churchmen or judges, 1015. Mandator, a word of various meanings in law: here it signifies the judge who enjoined the purchase, 954. To eat. In what sense it was said by Paul: Let him who does not eat not judge him who eats, 617. Mane (morning), or in the early morning, used for 'early,' 895. Manfredonia, a city of Italy called new Siponto, 546. The various madnesses of the Manichaeans, 754. The Manichaeans are to be recalled to the Catholic faith by penalties, 734. The use of the maniple in Masses succeeded to the mappula or linen napkins, around the tenth century, 668. What manna signifies, 24.
He is called the mansionarius of a Church who is its custodian and continually ministers in it, 174, 333, 336, 709. There are many mansions in heaven, 429. How the meek are to be admonished, 56. Let them embrace solicitude, 57. Sloth is neighbor to meekness, 56. Let meekness be joined to justice, 514. Mansus. See Massa. What the broken hand of the shepherd signifies, 11. Let the hand be clean that seeks to wash away defilement, 13, 508. What it means to choose a hand with a stranger, 38. What it means to purge oneself at the third, fifth, or seventh hand, 864. The hand was always a symbol of faith, ibid. What it signifies to use each hand for the right hand, 764, 765. Of how many kinds is the manumission of slaves, 757, 800. To manumit slaves was to make them free men and Roman citizens, 800.
The manumission of slaves, favoring the liberty of men, ought not to be revoked by the Church, 548. Constantine the Great permitted manumissions to take place in church, 576. By a law he passed, the same granted to all clerics the power to set their servants at liberty, 800. Formerly it was very difficult to grant liberty to slaves, ibid. The form of manumission, with attendant donations and conditions, 800, 801. St. Benedict knew in spirit of the napkins received and hidden by a monk, and rebuked the guilty man, 245. The use of the mappula is granted only to the first deacons of Ravenna, when they minister to their bishop as he celebrates, 668. Maniples succeeded the mappulae at Mass, ibid. Maratus, the name of an estate, 590. Marbodus, author of the life of St. Licinius, 1146.
Peter de Marca. His opinion on the heading of a certain letter is approved, 1168. Marcellinus, bishop of Ancona, checked a fire, 177. Marcellus or Marcellinus, proconsul of Dalmatia, 640, 929, 993. Well deserving of the Roman Church, 993. He is censured for the favor shown to Maximus, bishop of Salona, 929. Why, when summoned by the emperor, he did not at once obey, 993. Marcellus, a scholasticus, 720, 914. Marcellus, a monk of the Gregorian monastery, 409. Marcellus, a citizen of the city of Todi, recalled to life, 201. Marcellus, a freedman, 1044. What 'marcha' signifies, 1015. The Marcianists or Marcionists, heretics, 803, 804. Marcianus, presbyter of the diocese of Taurianum, designated bishop of Locri, 889.
The same, having been made bishop of Locri, 962, 1063. St. Mark the Evangelist founded the Church of Alexandria, 889. The blessing of St. Mark is called the blessing of St. Peter, 917. Marcus, a scribe, was sent into Sicily by the emperor Maurice to exact accounts, 1078. Sea. What the depth of the sea signifies, 4. How by the word 'sea' Sidon is brought to shame, 83. Who sleeps in the midst of the sea, 90. What it signifies that the water of the sea is gathered as in a wineskin, 1134. What the bronze sea before the doors of the temple, for washing the hands of those entering, indicates, 19, 512. The glassy sea, that is, the sea of glass, cerulean, 1039. How Mary is both the handmaid and the mother of the Lord, 1169. Mary appears to the virgin Musa, soon to die, 400.
Mary sitting at the feet of the Lord signifies the contemplative life, 491. See Magdalen. Maria, a patrician lady, 856. Marianus, 1060. Marinianus, bishop of Ravenna, 1230, 1287, 1291. Having long lived in the monastery with Gregory, he is by common consent chosen bishop of Ravenna, 777, 787. He comes to the episcopate unwillingly, 777. Gregory commends him to Andreas the scholasticus, ibid. How the use of the pallium is granted to him, 787. His faith, 792, 793. He is rebuked for unjustly burdening a monastery, or permitting it to be burdened by his clerics, 813, 816. His lack of mercy toward the poor, 816. He declines to read Gregory's admonitions, 817. And the case of Maximus, bishop of Salona, is committed to him to be examined, 936, 983, 991.
For more about him, see the alphabetical index of the Letters. Marinianus, bishop of the city of Torres in Sardinia, 550, 932. Marinianus, abbot of Palermo, 548, 593, 1173. The case of bishop Victor is committed to him for examination, 642, 643. Marinianus, defensor of the Church of Milan, 861. Marinus, husband of Gurdia, sister of Maurice, 877. Gregory greets him, 493. The province of the Marsi is the same as Valeria in Latium, 405. Martha signifies the active life, 491, 869. Martia, a nun unjustly transferred from her monastery to another, is ordered to be recalled, 732. Martianus, bishop of Ferentino, 1291. Why Martianus, a defensor, is to be driven into exile, 979. Martianus, a monk, 1055, 1056. Martianus, a registrar (tabularius), 1122.
St. Martin, bishop of Tours, how averse he was from banquets, 580. The monastery of St. Martin at Autun, 1219. Its privilege, 1223. Martinus, bishop of Taenarum, incardinated into the Church of Savona because his own church was destroyed, 563, 564. Martinus, a deacon and abbot, defamed with crimes and canonically purged, is declared innocent, 864. Martinus, a scholasticus, 975, 976. Martinus, a solitary, 313. By his prayers he obtains water from a rock, ibid. He dwells for three years with a serpent into which the devil had entered, 316. He flees the company of women, ibid. By his prayers a little child cast headlong is not injured, 316. When a rock is torn away, his cell is preserved untouched by the fall, 317. He had bound his foot with a chain, which at the command of St.
...Benedict's command it was loosed, 317. Martinus, a farmer, 707. It is not the penalty that makes the martyr, but the cause, 615. The cult of a martyr who is by no means certain is to be forbidden, 1157. Who are to be called martyrs in a time of the Church's peace, 337. Very many were made martyrs under the Lombards. See Lombards. There are two kinds of martyrdom, 337. The merit of martyrdom is in secret, when virtue ready for suffering burns in the soul, ibid. Martyrdom is signified by the name of the chalice, 337. The way of a harsher life leads to martyrdom, 340. The palm of martyrdom belongs not to human will but to divine election, ibid. Martyrius, one a monk of Valeria, another of Lycaonia, 201. By that Martyrius the sign of the cross was divinely imprinted upon bread, 204. Martyrology.
額我略時代在羅馬誦讀的殉道錄是否即我們如今所稱的古羅馬殉道錄，916、918。以聖熱羅尼莫之名發布的殉道錄並非出自這位聖人，918。額我略治下在羅馬誦讀的殉道錄中所載何物，916、917。殉道者之死如何有益於教會，318。有時那些在教會太平時似乎微不足道者反倒殉道，340。有時在迫害中背棄信仰的，正是那些在教會太平時被認為堅定不移的人，同上。瑪斯卡托爾，顯貴之人阿爾門塔里烏斯的姪子，317。Massa 或 mansus 或 mansum，是有一定尺度與範圍的田地，534、758。massa 相當於一份產業或田莊，534。massa 與 casa 之間的區別，同上。
Whether the Martyrology read at Rome in Gregory's time was that which we now call the old Roman one, 916, 918. The Martyrology published under the name of St. Jerome is not by that saint, 918. What was contained in the Martyrology read at Rome under Gregory, 916, 917. How the death of martyrs profits the Church, 318. Sometimes those undergo martyrdom who in the Church's peace seemed contemptible, 340. Sometimes in persecution those desert the faith who in the Church's peace were believed to stand firmly, ibid. Mascator, nephew of Armentarius, an illustrious man, 317. Massa or mansus, or mansum, is a field of a certain measure and extent, 534, 758. A massa corresponds to a possession or estate, 534. The distinction between a massa and a casa, ibid.
Let not tenant-farmers on the estates of the Church be appointed out of favor, 576. Let not the sons of the tenants of estates be joined in marriage outside the estate on which they were born, 1197. The tenants of estates throughout Gaul are admonished to live blamelessly, 758. And to obey the patrician Argius, ibid. Marseilles. At Marseilles, or in that city, there were four monasteries in the sixth century, 838. Bishops of Marseilles: Theodorus, 541. Paschasius, ibid. Serenus, 830. Mastalo, most zealous for the unity of the Church against the schismatics, 776. What a 'matricula' is, 655. Who are called 'matricularii,' ibid., 657. Matrimony is not a fault, 1160. In matrimony the will ought to be free, 693.
Matrimony, if one of the spouses is of servile condition, is to be dissolved, 845. Matrimony under the pretext of religion is not to be dissolved, 1130ff., 1131. The indissolubility of matrimony, ibid. What is the worldly law contrary to this indissolubility, 1130, 1138. Whence come the impediments of matrimony, 1154. Within what degrees of consanguinity and affinity it is lawful to contract matrimony, 1153, 1154. The matrimony of incestuous persons is null, 1279. Whom one may not take in marriage, 1293ff. English neophytes joined within the prohibited degrees are not to be separated, nor deprived of communion, 1155. Matthaeus, a most distinguished man, sustained by the alms of St. Gregory, 1182.
Maurentius, bishop of Africa, is praised for his solicitude for ecclesiastical order, 903. Maurentius, a chartularius, 505, 506, 838. He is called a magnificent man, 489. Maurentius, master of soldiers, 903, 956. Most dear to Gregory, 908, 1184. He is praised for his zeal in sacred reading, 908. Having a lawsuit, he is commended by Gregory, 1183. And seeking a favor, 1184. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. The emperor Maurice is called the most Christian lord of affairs, 501. Most Christian of princes, 804. His lineage and gifts of soul, 675. He is called by Gregory the most serene Lord, 494, 495. Maurice was called Tiberius, 1188. The virtues of Maurice, 677, 678. He was not accustomed to meddle in priestly causes, 699.
Most zealous for the peace of the Church, 747. His charity toward the poor, 737. The rectitude of his faith, 804. His zeal for the guardianship of the faith, 841. In his times the heretics were forced into silence, 1134. Maurice forbade that any cleric who had been involved in public administrations should perish, 675. Nor that such be received into monasteries, ibid. Likewise he passed a law that soldiers should not become monks, 675, 676, 677, 678. Gregory asks that he moderate or change this law, 677. He orders that schismatics should not be compelled to return to the unity of the Church, 934, 935. He won a signal victory over the Persians, and restored Chosroes, king of the Persians, 677. He calls Gregory foolish and simple, 765, 766. The monstrous avarice of Maurice, 1238.
How many evils Gregory suffered from him, 766, 767. St. Gregory was not unkind toward the emperor Maurice, 1238. Maurice was slain with his whole family, 1301, 1302. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Mauricius, a monk, 1056. Maurilio, former prefect, 1191. Gregory wishes help to be brought to him while he resides within ecclesiastical precincts, 527. Maurilius, master of soldiers, 570, 571. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Maurus is brought to St. Benedict, 220. Walking with dry foot upon the waters, he rescues Placidus, 225. Because he seemed to rejoice at the death of Florentius, he is rebuked, 228. Whether this Maurus is the same as Maurus the son of Equitius, ibid. Maurus is set as abbot over the monastery of St. Pancras at Rome, 697. Maurus, a slave, 1035, 1036.
Maximianus, bishop of the Church of Puteoli, because he permitted a Donatist bishop to be ordained in his city, is to be deposed, 611, 612. Maximianus, abbot of the monastery of St. Gregory, afterwards bishop of Syracuse, 105, 357, 421, 573, 1237. One of the companions of St. Gregory sent to Constantinople by Pelagius, 357. He is marvelously delivered from shipwreck, ibid. He is appointed by Gregory as vicar of the Roman See in Sicily, 487, 573. Gregory then committed his office not to the place but to the person, 574. From him Gregory learned certain things which he inserted in his Dialogues, 105, 177, 661. Many matters, especially those pertaining to Church discipline, are enjoined upon him, 690, 691, 692. In what year he died, 105, 573. Gregory grieves at his death, 741.
The people of Syracuse render illustrious testimony to him after his death, 753. He cast certain clerics into prison for wrongdoing, whom, prevented by death, he could not punish, 759. He is called a bishop of holy memory, 897. He is venerated by the Church, 357. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Maximianus, an Illyrian presbyter, 585. Maximilla, a false prophetess, 1168. Maximus of Constantinople. His ordination, and the ordinations conferred by him, why null, 608. Maximus, a monk of Lérins and afterwards bishop of Riez, 1101. Maximus, violently intruded into the see of Salona, 698, 699. He is called a usurper of the Church of Salona, 793. A seizer, 810. And a transgressor, 983. Gregory forbids him to be ordained, 690.
The emperor does not consent, 725. Maximus and his ordainers are removed from all offices, especially from the altar, 699, 721. Despising the excommunication, he celebrates Masses, 752, 812. He publicly caused St. Gregory's letter to be torn, 725. With how many vices he and his ordination labored, 699, 725, 752. He falsely accuses Gregory of having bishop Malchus murdered in custody, 726. He is cited to Rome, 793, 811. He refuses to come, 813, 814. If he persists obstinately, he is deprived of communion in the body and blood of the Lord, 812, 863. The emperor orders that Maximus, coming to Rome, be received with honor, 752. Few abstain from his communion, 813. Gregory exhorts the people of Zadar to suspend themselves from the communion of Maximus, 814.
His case is committed to Constantius, bishop of Milan, to be judged, 983. And to Marinianus, bishop of Ravenna, 991. His devices to obtain pardon, 983. He humbly makes satisfaction and submits himself to penance, 992, 1296. On what conditions communion is restored to him, 991, 992. And Gregory rejoices at his full satisfaction, 1033. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Maximus, a subdeacon, 539. Maximus, a monk, son of Chrysaorius, a wealthy man, 440. Maximus, palatine of the privy purse (privatarum), 1047. Maximus, father of Probus, bishop of Rieti, 389. A privilege granted to the monastery of St. Medard, 1284. Medicine, whether of the body or of the mind, applied without division, ought to serve in a divisible manner, 98. Physician.
The rashness of certain men who, ignorant of the wounds of souls, profess themselves physicians, 3. Let him not be the physician of others who bears a wound on his own face, 10. He is an unskilled physician who, not knowing his own wound, wishes to cure another's, 73. The physician grants to a sick man whom he despairs of all that he desires, 78. Bishops of Milan: Datius, 285. Laurentius, 565, 1103. See his entry. Constantius. See his entry. Deusdedit, 1206, 1238. The bishops of Milan were not ordained without the consent of the Roman pontiff, 645, 646, 1094, 1095. The bishop of Milan was metropolitan, 646. Gregory reproves the election of a bishop of Milan made by the Lombards and Agilulf, 1095. The common table of the clergy of Milan, 720.
The revenues of the Church of Milan in Sicily and elsewhere, 1095. Megalis, a woman, 960. Melania the Younger devoted her efforts to copying sacred books, 169. Melanthius, bishop of Rouen, 1144. He is substituted for Praetextatus, driven into exile, 1143. But when the latter is restored, he himself is expelled, 1146. Meletius, a bishop deposed in the Council of Nicaea, retains only the name of his dignity, 495. Malta, an island of the Mediterranean Sea, 605. Bishop of Malta: Lucillus, ibid. See his entry. Trajanus, 1042. Melitene, a city of Lesser Armenia, 678. Bishop of Melitene: Domitianus, 678. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Mellitus, abbot, sent into England, wrote a commentary, 1140ff. The same, bishop of London, 1287.
The vision of the monk Mellitus at his death, 412. Melotes or cuculla, a kind of garment of monks, 223. As the members of one body are diverse through their several functions, yet mutually agreeing become one, so also are those of one society, 46. Menas, a solitary monk in Samnium, 336. His straitened poverty, and his wondrous command over wild beasts, ibid. His zeal against vice, 336. He is strong in the spirit of prophecy, 337. He rejects the offerings of a sacrilegious plunderer, 336. Menas, bishop of Telese in Campania, accused before Gregory, returns to Rome, 1020, 1220. He makes satisfaction by an oath at the body of blessed Peter, and, cleared, is sent back into Gaul, 1219. To tell a lie is worse than to eat flesh, 663. Menna, bishop of Toulon, 1144.
The mind is signified by the name of the belly, 51. The human mind is compared to water, 51. The mind knows how to think of many things, while not knowing itself, 5. He whose mind, sleeping through neglect of its own care, is struck yet does not grieve, is dragged yet does not feel, 90. In curing infirmities of the mind, there is need of such discretion that both the languor and the weakness are at once met, 98. Table. At the bishop's table let sayings of the ancient Fathers be read, 856. A woman suffering her menstrual period. See Woman. Measure. By a measure of wheat the manner of the word is expressed, 99. What it means to tithe mint, 92. The hireling shepherd flees when the wolf comes, 510. Reward is sometimes opposed to loss, 625. Sometimes it is taken for a benefit, 625, 646, 1242. Sometimes for a prize and wages, 1232.
Sometimes for mercy, in French 'mercy,' 636. The religious concerned with 'reward,' that is, those who are appointed to redeem captives, ibid. Noonday sleep is permitted by the Rule of St. Benedict, 1125. The Church of Merien in the diocese of Cosenza, 886. Merit. In the examination of the just Judge, the quality of actions changes the merits of the orders, 84. Immersion. See Baptism. Merulis, a place near Rome, 297. Merulus, a monk intent on tears and prayers, 453. He is warned of death, ibid. He is venerated by the Church, 456. The privileges of the Church of Messina are confirmed, and the pallium is sent to the new bishop, 793. Only to the deacons of the Church of Messina was it permitted to use the compagus, 915. Bishops of Messina: Felix, 528. See the alphabetical index of the Letters.
Donus, 798, 1230. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. What the errors of the Messalians were, 802. Who were their leaders, and what synods were held against them, ibid. Messianus, a Salonitan cleric, 1034. The Metronian gate of Rome, 1125. The rights of metropolitans are established by the canons, 933. Bishops ought to obey the metropolitan, 797. Bishops escaping discipline by flight are to be remitted to the metropolitan, 1020. How many cities are required for the constituting of a metropolitan see, 1163, 1164. Ordinations made by metropolitans in the dioceses of their subject bishops are read of, 578. It was the office of the metropolitan of Cagliari to announce the feast of Easter, and to give letters to bishops departing from the island, 933.