Letter 2,35 - to Felix, bishop of Agropoli, visitor of the province of Lucania. July 592
"We warn you of this before all else, that whenever in the above-mentioned churches or in their dioceses, either deacons or other religious persons are found, you will take care that they are living strictly and according to canon law in every way.
They are not to have the freedom to transgress indiscriminately in any matter. But let them through your control and forethought, perservere in their present Christian way of life and dress, and know that, if anything is undertaken badly by them, it must be charged totally to your neglect."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 213.
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