To Bishop Felix and Cyriacus the Abbot, on Theodosia’s Monastery

Gregory to Felix, and so on. [a]

The report submitted to you makes the complaint of the religious lady Theodosia clear enough. On reading it we found many charges against our brother and fellow bishop Januarius that do not befit the gentleness of a priest. Indeed, after she had founded a monastery for servants of God, it is said that everything belonging to greed, disorder, and wrong was put on display at the very dedication of its oratory. So if the case is as we find it in her petition, and if you know of anything else at all that has been done improperly, we urge you first to set all the wrongs right. Then press Musicus, the abbot of the monastery of Agilitanus, to lose no time in giving the greatest attention to his monks, whom he had begun to settle there. In this way, once that venerable place has been set in order by you, with the Lord’s help, in a fitting and regular manner, we will not be troubled by the religious lady’s frequent complaints that her good wishes are not being carried out. Nor will so devout a plan languish through any neglect of yours, to the harm of your soul, though we do not believe it would. [b]