Epistle LI

Epistle LI.

To Maximianus, Bishop.

Gregory to Maximinianus, Bishop of Syracuse ¹⁴⁹⁹ .

My brethren who live with me familiarly urge me by all means to write something briefly about the miracles of the Fathers done in Italy, which we have heard of.  With this view I am in great need of the assistance of your Charity, to mention to me shortly what comes back to your memory, and what you happen to have known.  For I remember your telling me something, which I have now forgotten, about the Lord ¹⁵⁰⁰ Abbot Nonnosus, who was with the Lord ¹⁵⁰¹ Anastasius of Pentomi ¹⁵⁰² .  And therefore this, or anything else, I beg thee to communicate to me by letter without delay, if indeed thou art not intending to come to me thyself shortly.

Footnotes

135b:1499

See II. 7, note 5.

135b:1500

Domno.  “Abbas autem, quia vices Christi agere creditur, Domnus et Abbas vocetur.”  Regula S. Benedicti, c. 63.

135b:1501

Domno.  “Abbas autem, quia vices Christi agere creditur, Domnus et Abbas vocetur.”  Regula S. Benedicti, c. 63.

135b:1502

The miracles attributed to Nonnosus, which are here referred to, are told in Dialog. I. 7, as having been communicated to Gregory by Maximianus and an old monk called Laurio.  Nonnosos, at the time when they were wrought, had been Prior under Anastasius of a monastery on the summit of Mount Soracte.