Letter CLXVIII.
To all the Bishops of Campania, Samnium
and Picenum.
(Rebuking them first for performing baptisms without due
preparation or sufficient cause on ordinary saints’-days (Easter
and Whitsuntide being the only recognized times), and secondly for
requiring from penitents that a list of their offences should be read
out publicly, a practice which is in many ways
objectionable.)