Quote from Letter 9.143 to Anthem, sub-deacon of Campania. May 599
It has come to our attention from a report by certain people that when the bishop of the city of Aversa, Importunes, departed from this life, he left a will in which he bequeathed two thirds of his estate to his daughter-in-law, and the remainder third to his church.
And so we urge your Experience to investigate this with a very careful inquiry, and whatever clearly belongs to his church, do not allow it to be kept by any person at all (...).
We also want you to warn the clergy and people of that same church with all urgency that they should elect a priest to be put in charge of them without any delay, so that he can settle the clergy and peopled the property or the same church with a careful arrangement bored on law.
It has come to our attention from a report by certain people that when the bishop of the city of Aversa, Importunes, departed from this life, he left a will in which he bequeathed two thirds of his estate to his daughter-in-law, and the remainder third to his church.
And so we urge your Experience to investigate this with a very careful inquiry, and whatever clearly belongs to his church, do not allow it to be kept by any person at all (...).
We also want you to warn the clergy and people of that same church with all urgency that they should elect a priest to be put in charge of them without any delay, so that he can settle the clergy and peopled the property or the same church with a careful arrangement bored on law.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 628.
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