Quote from Letter 9.38 to Fantinus, defender. October 598
Some of the Jews in the city of Palermo had given us a petition, in which they complained that the bishop had occupied their synagogues, together with their hostelries, quite unreasonably. (...)
What has once been consecrated cannot be restored to the Jews. And so we command your Experience to make sure that our aforesaid brother and fellow-bishop pays the price equal to the valuation by our sons, the glorious patrician Venantius and the abbot Urbicus, for these synagogues together with these guess-houses, that are under their walls or attached to them, together with adjoining gardens.
Thus, what he had occupied might belong to the Church itself, and the Jews might not appear to be oppressed of suffer injustice in any way. The manuscripts and ornaments removed at the same time als also being sought. If they have clearly been stolen, we want them to be restored without any argument.
What has once been consecrated cannot be restored to the Jews. And so we command your Experience to make sure that our aforesaid brother and fellow-bishop pays the price equal to the valuation by our sons, the glorious patrician Venantius and the abbot Urbicus, for these synagogues together with these guess-houses, that are under their walls or attached to them, together with adjoining gardens.
Thus, what he had occupied might belong to the Church itself, and the Jews might not appear to be oppressed of suffer injustice in any way. The manuscripts and ornaments removed at the same time als also being sought. If they have clearly been stolen, we want them to be restored without any argument.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 568
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