Epistle
XXVI.
To the people of Ravenna.
Gregory to the clergy, gentry, and common people
of Ravenna
1597
.
Having been informed of the death of your bishop,
we have taken care to delegate to our brother and fellow-bishop Severus
of Ficulum the visitation of the bereaved Church, to whom we have given
in charge to allow nothing with respect to the promotions of the
clergy, the revenues, ornaments, and ministrations, to be usurped by
any one. It is for you to render obedience to his assiduous
exhortations.
According to custom.
1597
Cf. II. 6, note
3.