Quote from Letter 9.166 to fortunate, bishop of Naples. June 599
We think that your Fraternity is well aware that Romans, a gentleman of most distinguished memory, through the decision of his final will, decreed that a monastery should be built in a house under his control, situated in your city.
And because the dead man's will is known to have been implemented, with God's mercy, let your Holiness go there willingly, and if it is certain that no human body has ever been buried there, you should solemnly take care to consecrate the place itself in honor of Saints Hermes, Sebastian, Cyriacus and Pancras, doing so with public masses and due veneration, so that no baptistery is ever built in the same place and you do not incarnate a priest there.
We think that your Fraternity is well aware that Romans, a gentleman of most distinguished memory, through the decision of his final will, decreed that a monastery should be built in a house under his control, situated in your city.
And because the dead man's will is known to have been implemented, with God's mercy, let your Holiness go there willingly, and if it is certain that no human body has ever been buried there, you should solemnly take care to consecrate the place itself in honor of Saints Hermes, Sebastian, Cyriacus and Pancras, doing so with public masses and due veneration, so that no baptistery is ever built in the same place and you do not incarnate a priest there.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 648.
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