Therefore, it is necessary that both now and in future times, the praises of God should be celebrated there through that community which is there now or will succeed it.
And so, considering the wish of the aforesaid priest, we have decided that a monastery should be there in perpetuity, and that what was left by the testator should belong to it, namely the same house in its entirety together with its garden ad properties designated below. That is the Magulian estate with its appendices, about eleven miles down the road to Nomentum, a tavern in this city situated next to Pallacenae and a foodstore in front of the house of the monastery mentioned above.
And so your Beloved ought to watch carefully that prases of God are celebrated there as is customary (as we said before), and that the above-mentioned properties which are under its control, should not go to waste through your neglicence.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 433
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