Pastoral Rule, Dialogues & Letters 845 part 20/29

What it is to bind money in a napkin, 10. Want obtained from God by prayers, 189. Pope Pelagius I, newly ordained, according to ancient custom sent his confession of faith to King Childebert, 490. To Sapaudus of Arles, 542. Hated by the Western bishops because he received the fifth synod, 682. Pope Pelagius II. From him Gregory had learned what he narrates about Martin the monk in his Dialogues, 313. The book sent by St Gregory to the schismatics of Istria is the seventh letter of Pelagius, 616. Pelagius's efforts to extinguish the schism in vain, 682. Wishing to change the silver which was over the body of St Peter, he is terrified, 708. He dissolves the acts of the synod in which John assumed the title of universal [bishop], 741.

Pelagius bishop of the city of Anagni, 1291. Pelagius bishop of Turnis, 830. Pelagius the deacon and Theodore bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia were the cause of the scandal arising from the condemnation of the Three Chapters, 616. Pelagius the heretic, condemned also in the synod of Ephesus: in order to assert that we were redeemed by Christ in vain, he denied that through Adam we are dead in soul, 802. He is a Pelagian who denies that the devil enters into the heart of man, 884. Peltrasius, 896. The feathers of a dove overlaid with silver, what they are, 896. 'Pensio' is called that which is given for the use of some thing, 606. 'Merces' is called [the rent] for dwelling in others' buildings, ibid. It is also any annual income, ibid. It is called the burden of a possession, 734.

Pensions approved in the Council of Chalcedon, 1218. That they be exacted with a safe conscience, much caution is needed, ibid. 'Per.' Some wish this preposition to mean the same as 'during,' etc., 743, 749, 750. The striking of a cleric for the sake of correction, for graver faults, was formerly lawful, 664. By whom it is to be exercised, ibid. A cleric subjected to public striking with rods by a bishop, ibid. A bishop who had ordered a woman to be beaten is suspended from his office for two months, 656, 657. Pilgrimage is the present life, 1175. For whom the place of pilgrimage is a torment, ibid. Anniversary pilgrimages undertaken for the sake of religion, 320. A presbyter is called 'peregrinus' who is not cardinal or titular, 697, 698. Peregrinus, blessed...

disciple of Benedict, 257. Perfection. The other virtues generate perfection, but charity also binds them, so that they cannot be dissolved from the lover's mind, 781. The soul is like a ship ascending against the current, 94. Why God wills no one to be perfect in this life, 508. They were visitors, not bishops, 501. How the Persian empire was subject to the emperor Maurice, 678. The Persian emperor was not converted to the faith by the preaching of bishop Domitian, 680. 'To scrutinize' is sometimes taken passively, 975, 976. The schismatics boast that they suffer being scrutinized in vain, 615. Persecution, while it is not borne reasonably, in no way profits toward salvation, ibid. Persecutions belong to those who live piously, 876.

He lives less piously who has endured less persecution, ibid. Persecution for the faith. See Martyrdom. Perseverance. What is to be preached to those who do not consummate the good things begun, 94. Whoever does not strictly carry through the good things begun imitates the loosening of the hand's negligence that destroys them, 94. Better not to begin good things than to turn back in thought from those which have been begun, 829. The uncertainty of perseverance keeps the saints anxious and humble, 834. What a 'Persica theca' is, 1270. Acceptance of persons in judges is evil, 582. Acceptance of persons is prohibited, 643. Public persons are magistrates, officials, and letter-carriers, 687. What 'Thessalian persuasion' is, 735. Obstinacy is opposed to humility, 7.

Who are to be admonished as obstinate, 60, 61. Obstinacy is generated from pride, 60. Its remedies, 60. The perverse. Not so are all the good withdrawn that only the perverse remain in the world, 368. Those intent on divine works are wont to be torn by the adversities of the perverse, 846. Perusia (Perugia), a city of Etruria, 300, 530. Mark Antony, besieged in this city by Augustus and compelled by famine, made surrender, ibid. This same city taken by the Goths in the seventh year of the siege, ibid. Bishops of Perugia: Herculanus, 300. Venantius, 1211. What a broken foot signifies in a pastor, 11. One having a broken foot was formerly repelled from the priesthood, 11. Pestilence was seen to strike the Romans under the appearance of an arrow, 432. With what spirit the scourge of pestilence is to be received, 1087ff.

By what reasoning those who are struck by this scourge are to be consoled, 1087, 1088. 'To be sought, requested, desired, chosen' are taken as the same, 634. Yet 'to request' is greater than 'to seek,' ibid. Petronilla conferred on the monastery in which she had been converted all that she had, by title of donation, 683. Ravished by Agnellus the notary, she is carried off from the monastery, 683. She is ordered to be sent to the same monastery for penance, 686. Petronius, notary of the holy Roman Church, 553. St Peter the apostle called Peter from 'petra' (rock), 888. Peter, holding the primacy of the Church, was raised up alone against the wicked, 21. Peter, coryphaeus of the apostles, 202, 743. Who is to be called a soldier of St Peter, 526. Peter and the apostolic see are named reciprocally, ibid., 831, 832. To go to St...

Peter, is the same as to go to the supreme Roman pontiff, 619. The primacy of Peter and of the Roman Church, 668, 669, 743, 748. The care of the Church committed to Peter, 748. The Church is established on the solidity of the prince of the apostles, 888. In the primacy the see of the prince of the apostles alone prevailed in authority, ibid. Peter himself sits in his chair even now in his successors, ibid. The See of blessed Peter is in three places one, and the see of one man, 888, 1247. Peter's prerogatives, 1129. Peter's humility toward Cornelius, his zeal against the fault of Ananias and Sapphira, 21, 22, 513. Peter gladly accepts the rebuke of Paul, 28.

He who had received the power of the kingdom of heaven answered the complaints of the faithful not from power but from reason, 1129ff., 1130. The virtue of Peter and Paul unequal in miracle, whose merit is not unequal in heaven, 203. Peter freed by an angel, who is said to have returned to himself, 217. Why he first rebuked the Jews for what they had done before he admonished what they should do, 93. Peter raised Tabitha by praying, and delivered Ananias and Sapphira to death by rebuking, 261. The filings of St Peter's keys [used] for healing the sick, 517, 519, 520, 872. A small cross into which particles from Peter's chains are inserted is sent, 648, 1248. Its power, ibid. Sometimes particles cannot be struck by a file from the chains of St Peter, 711.

Pelagius II, wishing to change the silver which was above the head of St Peter, is terrified, 708. The body of St Peter flashes with miracles and terrors in his Church, ibid. Easterners cannot lift the bodies of SS Peter and Paul; but the Romans, by God's mercy, merit to lift them, 710, 711. When the bodies of SS Peter and Paul were translated, 710. Gregory sends their relics to bishop Palladius, 826. And to Queen Brunhild, 829. The various apparitions of St Peter, 333, 389, 392. Peter bishop of Aleria in Corsica, 808. He devotes himself to converting the Corsicans, 893. Peter bishop of Anagni, 1287. Peter bishop of Barica, 636. Peter bishop of Istria, 778. Peter bishop of Hydruntum (Otranto), 807.

The visitation of three Churches is enjoined on him, 808. He was visitor of the Church of Brundisium, 838. Peter bishop of Numidia, whose case is committed to Columbus to be settled, 821, 822. Peter, a bishop in the East, 853. Because at Cyriacus's ordination he had cried out 'This is the day which the Lord has made,' he is censured, 854. Peter bishop of Terracina, 524, 634. Peter bishop of Tricalis, 117. Visitor of the Church of Agrigentum, 737. Peter deacon of Naples, because he is a usurer, not to be elected bishop, 1086. Peter the deacon, responsalis, died in the province of Ravenna, 667. Peter the deacon, 579. Peter the deacon, interlocutor with Gregory in the Dialogues, whether he was a monk, 115.

He seems to be that Peter the subdeacon to whom Gregory often and most familiarly writes, ibid. Peter the subdeacon is appointed vicar of the Roman see and rector of the patrimony of St Peter in Sicily, 486, 488, 489. He is constituted moderator of the synods to be celebrated yearly in Sicily, 486. He is employed by Gregory in many affairs, both ecclesiastical and secular, both in Sicily and in Campania. See the alphabetical Index of Letters. Peter, notary in Rhegium, 569, 735. Peter the defensor, 1197. Peter the acolyte, minister of the deacon Sabinianus, apocrisiarius at Constantinople, 899. Peter, a Neapolitan cleric who, being accused, appealed to the apostolic See, 1072. Peter, lector of the Church of Euria, 1271. Peter the abbot, 453.

Peter the monk, one of the companions of St Augustine, 1113. Peter, an Iberian monk conspicuous for holiness, 432. Peter, steward of the ecclesiastical household, was seen bound and cast down by a great inner chain, 433. Peter, founder of a certain monastery, 689. Peter, a most illustrious man, vicedominus of Rusticiana, 1122. Peter the Sicilian, 944. Peter the tenant, 536. Peter, son of Lucillus bishop of Melita (Malta), is ordered to restore the goods taken from the Church, 1041. Peter the Jew, made a Christian, on the day after his baptism occupies the synagogue of the Jews, 930. Peter, 1263. Phanum. See Fanum. The Pharisees admitted the resurrection of the dead, 71. Why Paul studied to divide between these and the Sadducees, ibid., 72.

The Pharisees strained out a gnat and swallowed a camel, 92. Phausiana, a city of Sardinia under the archbishop of Turris, 708. In this city, which had long been vacant, a bishop to be ordained, 708. Bishop of Phausiana, Victor, 1095. The 'planeta,' a sacred vestment for the use of bishop and presbyter, 190. It is also the same as 'penula,' a kind of cheaper garment, ibid. Philagrius, deprived of his sight and greatly afflicted, is much commended, 1034, 1035ff. Philaster wrote a book on heresies, 862. Philippus, count of the excubitors, 52. Philippus bishop of Epirus, 796. Philippus the presbyter, 1257. Why God reserved the Philistines the longer, 308. How greatly the zeal of Phinehas pleased God, 70. Phocas. As Phocas comes to the empire, Gregory hopes all favourable things for the commonwealth, 1239.

He does not flatter Phocas, 1239. Phocas at first feigns clemency and liberality, 1239. Gregory excuses to Phocas the absence of the deacon apocrisiarius, 1244. He sends Boniface, ibid. He implores aid from Phocas against the Lombards, ibid. Phocas is crowned, 1301. The Photinians so called from Photinus, 1066. Called also Bonosiaci, 1168. How Gregory conducted himself toward them, 1066. Photius, patriarch of Constantinople, praises Gregory as the author of the Dialogues, 107. By him the passage of Gregory's Dialogues, where the procession of the Holy Spirit is treated, is believed to have been corrupted, 118. A frenzied man healed, 356. 'Phylacteria' are taken for sacred relics enclosed in gold, or silver, or crystal, 1270, 1271.

Which phylacteries were prohibited by councils, 1271. The province of Picenum, 1194, 1193. A picture provides to unlettered viewers what scripture provides to readers, 1100. What false piety is, and whose, 23. The laws of discipline are to be exercised so that piety be not abandoned, ibid. By oil the softness of piety is signified, 23. The lazy. Who are to be admonished as lazy, 53. The vain excuses of the lazy, 56. Who is said to be one who, being lazy, will beg in vain in old age, 56. The depraved effects of sloth, 55. What sloth is said to induce sleep, 55. By the name of cold, laziness is understood, 56. Pimenius bishop of Amalfi, to be compelled to residence, 808, 809. Pisa, a city of Etruria, 1241. Pisaurum (Pesaro), a city of Umbria in Italy, 755.

The bishop of Pesaro is accused because he disturbed the quiet of the monks, having placed his chair in their monastery, 826. Bishop of Pesaro, Felix, 626. A fish found by a miracle, 153. Smaller fish are permitted for the solace of infirmity in fasting, but larger ones are prohibited, 1303. Placentia (Piacenza), an episcopal city under the archbishop of Bologna, 295, 296. Bishops of Piacenza: Sabinus, 296. Bonifacius, 1288. God alone is to be pleased, 626. Placidus, a little boy, given to St Benedict by his father Tertullus, 220. He watches Benedict drawing a fountain from the rock, 221. Fallen into the water, he is freed by Maurus, 225. At what time he suffered martyrdom, 239. Placidus, a magnificent man, 1139.

'Placitum,' a word of law and forum whose meaning is manifold, 606. Plancho, a most illustrious man, 1209. By the name of streets the breadth of the present life is figured, 23. From their breadth streets ('plateae') are named, ibid. The people. Why the consent of the people is required for the election of a pastor, 573. According to the merit of peoples, the persons of pastors are wont to be provided by the supernal judgment, 645. What lead is found in the furnace, 53. Rain divinely sparing certain places, 297, 300. What a cup of bitter potion tempered with the sweetness of honey signifies, 59. Penalty. Equal penalty cannot absolve those whose cause is unequal, 617. How the present penalty is the end of the preceding fault, and how the beginning of the following penalty, 1114.

Let penitents so have confidence from hope that they do not grow torpid through security, 85. By what deceits the devil tries to deceive the penitent soul, 85. Against penitents lamenting their sins, harsher discipline is not to be applied, 679. Penance. Being scourged, we are recalled to penance, 51. God's wondrous mercy toward sinners is an incentive to penance, 82. Fervent penance is preferred to torpid innocence, 83, 84. What it is to give drink in tears by measure to penitents, 84. The more one does not cease to look upon his own sins, the less he is looked upon by God [in judgment], ibid. Let the measure of penance equal the measure of sin, 86. By what admonitions those are to be roused who do not lament the sins they abandon, 87.

As a writer who ceases to write does not thereby delete what he wrote, so he who ceases to sin does not thereby delete his sins with weeping, ibid., 88. Peter believed that penance is to be set before baptism, 88. No one ought to be secure from sins until the time of lamenting them has passed, 869. Penance without amendment is empty, 86. Who are to be admonished, who lament sins which they do not abandon, ibid., 87. Whoever laments what he has committed, yet does not abandon it, subjects himself to the penalty of a graver fault, 86. The evil are often uselessly compunct, 87. Penance is not mere cessation from sins, 87. Truly to do penance is to lament things committed and to decline things to be lamented, 1132. The heart is not only to be made contrite but also to be humbled, 88.

After the washing [of baptism] he neglects to keep himself clean, who after tears does not guard the innocence of life, 87. What is to be said to those who confess sins but do not avoid them, 89. They are to be condemned by their own testimony, ibid. Living, they descend into hell, 89. The penitent stood secure in judgment, 645, 656. Penance merits pardon, 969. What penance avails against sin, 1132. Respites are given us for penance, 1181. After penance, for three years it is not lawful to live perversely, 1130, 1131, 1132. Honourable men and bishops are sometimes, for the sake of doing penance, shut up in monasteries, 643. Penance as a sacrament. To whom the power of binding and loosing is given, 253. To repent. What those ought to do who deplore the sins of their works, 84.

Let them consider each single fault committed, that they may cleanse their whole selves with tears, 84. Concerning these, those must be admonished who have sinned by thought alone, 85, 86. When nocturnal pollution hinders communion and the celebration of Mass, 1161 and following. A Polypticum is a register into which acts are entered, 593. It is also a tablet having several folds, 956. The pomp of the world. See World. Pompeiana, a religious woman, 543, 1107. She is also called Pomponiana, 1260, 1261. Pompeianus, abbot of one of the monasteries which Benedict built, 221. Pompeianus, a bishop unjustly condemned, 1060. Pomponiana. See Pompeiana. What the fault of weight (heaviness) is, 13. What the ponderous (weighty) man is, 13. Bridge. Why in the vision the just were seen to cross by a bridge to pleasant places, 432, 433, 436.

Pontiff. See Bishop. Roman Pontiff. See Roman. Populonium, a city of Etruria, which has various names, 296, 500. The visitation of this Church is committed to Balbinus, bishop of Roselle, 500. In it, being almost wholly destitute, presbyters and deacons are to be ordained, 501. Cerbonius, bishop of Populonium, 296 and following. Swine. The devil is permitted to enter into a swine, 328. Under the figure of a swine the devil forsakes a Church newly dedicated to God, 344. The Church which was to be yielded to the Arians was seen filled with a multitude of swine, in the same place. Gate. What it is to go from gate to gate, 75. The Flaminian Gate at Rome, 1125. The Metronian Gate at Rome, in the same place. To bear. Burdens are to be borne one for another, 79. He bears more lightly who remembers that he himself is borne, 80. Bearer (Ferryman).

This word is most ancient, 1121. Portus Romanus, or Portus Augusti, a city of Etruria, 947. Bishops of Portus: Felix, 947, 1288, 1291. Gregory, 1287. Portus Veneris, a city of Liguria, 729. The burden of a possession is the rent owed by the tenant, 734. Possession of thirty years suffices in secular matters, and formerly held good in ecclesiastical matters, 496. It seems first to have been extended by St. Gregory to forty years for ecclesiastical matters, in the same place. See Prescription. How possession is interrupted, 497. By what arguments possession is proved, 666. What emphyteutic possession is, 536, 1088. A property of the Church's right is not to be granted in emphyteusis, except for the greater advantage of that same Church, 557.

A monk who seeks possession of land is no monk, 304. Yet monks are not to be blamed to whom possessions have been assigned for the necessities of life, in the same place. To virgins consecrated to God certain possessions were formerly assigned by their parents, 328. A possessor is not the owner, but has a right in the thing, 695. Between owner and possessor there is a distinction, 696. When the desires of a postulancy are to be fulfilled, 1249, 1262. He is said to be postulated who is chosen to the episcopate by the common decree of clergy and people, 601, 808, 866, 996. How postulation differs from election, 602, 634. To postulate is greater than to petition, 634. To postulate, to be sought, to be elected, to be desired are taken for the same thing, in the same place. What postulation is among the canonists, 808, 809.

If postulation concurs with election, what is to be done, 809. Power. For the most part temporal power, when it lifts up even the just, catches them in the snare of guilt, 78. He rightly governs power who knows both how to hold it and how to fight against it, 21. Authority. How many tempests are on the summit of authority, 10. The royal authority of the saints, 16. What kind is the authority of Christians, 509. Authority is given to princes by God, that the way of heaven may lie more widely open to all, 676. That they may quell the internal wars of the Churches, 686. Authority and love have a great kinship between themselves, 873. Authority is to be restrained under reason, 1018. The reverence of secular powers toward the Christian religion, 3. God's commandments are greater than the commandments of princes, 540.

The Lord's commandments are to be kept by kings, 1150. Preceptio and preceptum signify the written mandates handed down by kings and illustrious persons, 956, 957. Who the headlong (rash) are that must be admonished, 55, 56. Nothing is to be decided by hasty judgment, 597. In what manner predestination is obtained by prayers, 181. It is then fulfilled by prayers, when it has been predestined that those things which were foreordained should be obtained by prayers, 184. To preach. Some impugn by their conduct what they preach by their words, 4. Those who through excessive humility are afraid to preach, who must be admonished, 74 and following. Those who leap forward to the office of preaching while immature, who must be admonished, 76 and following. Amid earthly cares it is difficult to preach, 491. St.

Benedict used to send his brethren to preach to the neighboring nuns, 245. The office of preaching some laudably desire, some laudably, being constrained, are drawn to it, 7, 848. It is a crime to deny the bread of the word to the hungry, and healing to the sick, 74. To hide the grain is to keep the words of preaching to oneself, in the same place. It is also a crime not to tend the wounds of minds by the incision of words, in the same place. To hold back the sword from blood is to withhold the word of preaching from the slaying of carnal life, 75. He who was unwilling to disburse the talent lost it together with the sentence of damnation, in the same place. He to whom the eternal voice makes itself known, by proclaiming should draw others whither he himself is caught up, 75. To that man the knowledge of preaching is promised to be multiplied.

—namely in him who is not held by the vice of sloth, in the same place. He denies himself to be of God who, insofar as he is able, refuses to rebuke the life of the carnal, 76. Those who know no letters ought to be instructed by preaching, 634. Not one and the same exhortation is to be applied to all, 33. How great a diversity there ought to be in the art of preaching, 34, 35 and following. To weak minds lofty things ought not to be set forth, 99. By the measure of wheat the measure of the word is expressed, in the same place. Those who watch for the office of preaching should not withdraw from the study of sacred reading, 33, 34. The preacher is like a cock crying with a varied voice in the night, 99, 100. Preachers are compared to oxen, 836. Who is a preacher of God, and who is not, 6. What holy preacher builds fortifications, 31. Who carries the rampart, in the same place.

Who erects camps and places battering-rams in a circle, in the same place. Let the preacher speak of God and before God, 73. What it is for the preacher to drink water from his own cistern, 73. What it is to lead his own fountains forth abroad, 74. What it is to divide the waters in the streets, in the same place. And to drink the streams of his own well, what it is, in the same place. Let the preacher who is called call others, 75. What it is for the preacher to be clothed with power from on high, 76. What it is for the future preachers to sit in the city, 76. How difficult and laborious is the office of the preacher, 96, 97. Grievous is the labor for the preacher if he is compelled to preach to one enslaved to contrary vices, 97. What he ought to do, what to beware of, in the same place. Let him so heal the disease that he takes account of the weakness of the sick one, 98.

Sometimes let him leave lighter vices alone, that he may remove the graver, 98. That plague is to be pursued by the preacher the more ardently which presses the more dangerously, 98. Let him not draw the mind of his hearer beyond its strength, 99. Let him beware lest, while raising others, he himself fall, 99. He who out of charity takes upon himself the person of the infirm imitates the manner of an excellent preacher, 380. Onto what high mountain the preacher ought to ascend, 509. When he ought to reprove the elders, 925.—The preacher, how he should admonish the abstinent, 61, 62. Those enduring adversity, 78. The sick, 50.—Who should admonish the benevolent, 45. Those who do evil secretly and good publicly, 95. By what arguments he should deter those who do not even begin good works, and what proofs he should give, 93, 94.

What he should say to those who do not consummate the good they have begun, 94.—The preacher, how he should admonish the celibate, 81. Who should admonish the married, 79, 80.—The preacher, how he should admonish the discordant, 68, 69. Who should admonish the rich, 36. Who should admonish masters, 40.—The preacher, what he should say to the haughty, 58, 59. What to those who bestow alms, 63.—What to those who neither seize what belongs to others nor give away their own, 66. What to those who bestow their own yet do not cease to seize what belongs to others, 67.—The preacher, how he should admonish women, 33. How those who fear scourges, 52. How those who are not restrained by scourges, 52.—The preacher, how he should admonish the gluttonous, 61, 62.—The preacher, with what words he should admonish the dull, 40. With what the humble, 58, 59.—The preacher, who should admonish the impatient, 42. The shameless, 41.

The unharmed (secure), 49. The inconstant, 60, 61. The needy, 36. The envious, 46. The wrathful, 56, 57. Those who sow strife, 71. The young, 35.—The preacher, how he should admonish the joyful, 37. How those who do not rightly understand the words of the sacred Law, 72.—The preacher, who should admonish the meek, 56, 57. Who those who do evil secretly, 93. Who those who permit evil to be thought of themselves, in the same place.—The preacher, who should admonish the peaceable, 69, 70. Who the peacemakers, 71, 72. Who the patient, 44, 45. Who those who have experienced sins of the flesh, 81, 82. Who those ignorant of sins of the flesh, 83. Who those who praise the sins of others, 84, 85. Who those who bewail the sins of thoughts, 85, 86. Who those who bewail faults committed, yet do not forsake them, 86, 87.

Who those who forsake their sins, yet do not bewail them, 87. What the preacher should say to those who praise their own sins, 88. What to those who confess their sins, yet do not shun them, 89. Who should admonish those who, overcome by sudden concupiscence, sin, 89. What things the preacher should set before the eyes of those who sin deliberately, 91. How he should admonish those who are subject to least, but frequent, sins, 91, 92. How he should admonish those who guard against small things and commit graver ones, 92. How he should admonish the obstinate, 60, 61. How the slothful, 55. How the powerful, 36, 37. How the headlong, 55. How he should admonish those who decline the office of preaching through excessive humility, 74. How those whom precipitation impels to the office of preaching, 76.

How he should admonish prelates, 37, 38. How those who prosper in this world, 77. How the insolent, 41, 42. How the faint-hearted, 41, 42.—The preacher, how he should admonish those who seize what belongs to others, 65, 66. How those who bestow their own, and yet do not cease to seize what belongs to others, 67.—The preacher, who should admonish the wise, 40. Who the old, 35. Who slaves, 40. Who the simple, 47. Who subjects, 37, 39.—The preacher, how he should admonish the taciturn, 53, 54. How the sad, 37.—The preacher, how he should admonish the loquacious, 54. How the bashful, 41. How the crafty, 47. How he should admonish men, 33. Let holy preachers teach which are the open battles of the vices, which the hidden things to be feared, 31. Let the preacher return to his own heart, 73.