Quote from Letter 6,3 to Maximus, pretender at the church of Salona. September 595
And so it has come to our attention that you have been consecrated through the heresy of sominy. Many other things also were said about you here, of which this one was most important, because of which we have thought it necessary with our letter to prohibit you entirely from your duty to celebrate solemn Mass, until we could learn more truly how things stood.
Therefore, so that the sons of the church should not appear to be without a pastor for a long time, and in case these accusations should remain unexamined, and vice of this sort might extend to many others, we exhort you to come to us quickly, putting aside any excuses, so that by observing justice, we can get to know these things and finalize them, according to the canonical institutes, as revealed by Christ.
And so it has come to our attention that you have been consecrated through the heresy of sominy. Many other things also were said about you here, of which this one was most important, because of which we have thought it necessary with our letter to prohibit you entirely from your duty to celebrate solemn Mass, until we could learn more truly how things stood.
Therefore, so that the sons of the church should not appear to be without a pastor for a long time, and in case these accusations should remain unexamined, and vice of this sort might extend to many others, we exhort you to come to us quickly, putting aside any excuses, so that by observing justice, we can get to know these things and finalize them, according to the canonical institutes, as revealed by Christ.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 403
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