Letter 1,12 - to John, bishop of Orvieto. December 590.
"Agapitus, abbot of the monastery of Saint George, has informed us that (..) the celebration of masses is prohibited, and you even forbid the dead from being buried there. But if that is so, we exhort you to put an end to such inhumanity, and please allow the dead to be buried there and masses to be celebrated, with no further prohibition (..)."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 129.
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