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The Ark containing the tablets, the rod, and at the same time the manna, what it signifies, 23, 514. To smear the Ark with bitumen upon its bars, 850. By the Ark is signified the heart of the priest, 919. By the Ark the holy Church is figured, 33, 850, 1113. Archelaus, a physician, 946. He is commended to the deacon Cyprian, 760. An archiater is called either the chief of physicians or the emperor's physician, 713, 714. An archdeacon, not yet raised to the dignity of a presbyter, is called a priest of the second order, 563. He is also called a prelate of the second order, ibid. In the archdeacon's charge lay the custody of sacred things and the administration of ecclesiastical goods, 505. And this in the West, but not in the East, 581. How the archdeacon was formerly inferior yet superior to the presbyter, 582.
To fulfil the duties of the archdiaconate was then not permitted to a presbyter, but to a deacon, 504, 581. Why a bishop, by promoting an archdeacon to the presbyterate, is said to demote him, ibid. In the Church of Salona, the archdeacon, after five years had elapsed, was compelled to lay down his office, 1034. The malice of a certain archdeacon punished with death, 288. The honour of an archbishop is called the use of the Pallium, 518. Ordinations were attempted or performed by archbishops in the dioceses of their subject bishops, but contrary to the canons, 578. Archpresbyters in Gregory's time, 931. The archpresbyter of Catralum, 1260, 1161. What an archive is, its keepers, 916, 918; they were keepers of the record-office, 918. Aregius, a patrician of Gaul, 833. His goodness and gentleness are praised, ibid.
And Gregory commends to him Augustine and his companions, and Candidus, 834. And Hilary, 1024, 1025. And the lessees of the estates throughout Gaul, 758. Arles (Arelate), an archiepiscopal city of the province, 542. The Church of Arles was never subject to that of Vienne, ibid. Between Virgilius and Licerius, bishops of Arles, Paschasius is placed, 541. The bishop of Arles receives the Pallium from ancient times, 1156. Whether the bishops of Arles always held the office of vicar and legate for the holy See in the Gauls, 781. The privileges of the monastery of Arles granted by Vigilius are confirmed by St. Gregory, 1019. Bishops of Arles: Theodosius, 541. Virgilius, see the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Paschasius, 541. Licerius, ibid.
Aurelius, 1019. Hilary, 1101. Arethusa, a noblewoman, is commended by St. Gregory, 1103. Argentarius, a mountain in Tuscia, running out into the sea between the port of Hercules and Telamon, 320. From the Silver Mountain (Mons Argentarius) a monk of venerable life restored life to a dead man, 320. To avoid praise, he fled, 321. Argentius, bishop of the Churches of Lamigium, had permitted Donatists to be set over the Churches, 567. Gregory orders an inquiry to be made against him, ibid. Argentius, a tenant of the Roman Church, praised for his hospitality, 1105. And rewarded with the gift of a little plot of land, ibid. How the Lord multiplies silver for us, 73. The proportion of silver to gold, 648. In a pound of silver, six gold solidi, ibid. What common silver (argentum usuale) is, 887.
The Arians, in order to express their error, baptized by a twofold immersion, 532. The children of the Arian Lombards, baptized in heresy, are to be reconciled to the catholic faith, 502. An Arian church at Rome is consecrated for catholics with the relics of martyrs applied, 341. At the very dedication a pig is driven out of the church, 344. And with a most violent crash, the demons withdraw, ibid. When the solemnities of the Masses are completed, the presence of God is manifested, ibid. The church which was to be handed over to the Arians is seen filled with pigs, 344. Churches occupied by the Arians are consecrated anew, 637, 638. An Arian bishop of the Lombards at Spoleto, about to do violence to a church, is struck with blindness, 341. The doors of the church are opened by divine power, ibid.
By what rite the Arians are to be reconciled, 1167, 1168. What it is to set rams in a circle, 31. Rams are said to be the apostles, and Christians the sons of rams, 765. Arigis, second duke of Benevento, successor of Zoto, 609. Arigius, bishop of Lyon, a sharer in the counsels of Brunhild, deposed Desiderius of Vienne in the council of Chalon, 831. Arigius of Gap (Vapincensis), bishop, see Aregius. Arioald, duke of the Turinese, succeeds Adaloald, king of the Lombards; in what year, 1271. Ariminum (Rimini), an episcopal city in the province of Aemilia, 549. It is subject to the metropolitan of Ravenna and to the supreme pontiff, ibid. The people of Rimini accuse bishop Castorius on account of his infirmity, 641. They are ordered to obey Leontius the visitor as their bishop, 642.
The goods of the Church of Rimini are divided into five parts, 774. The bishop of Rimini, Castorius, 602. See his entry. The visitation of the Church of Rimini is enjoined upon Severus of Ficulum, 548, 549; upon Leontius of Urbino, 641; upon Sebastian, 866. Aristobulus, former prefect and antigraphus, procurator of the royal household under Maurice, 519. Gregory consoles him, ibid. He asks him, in translating his letters into Greek, to render not the words but the sense, ibid. Ariulf, duke of Benevento after Faroald, 607. His cruelty, ibid. Gregory orders him to be pursued from behind, should he make an incursion into the districts of Rome or Ravenna, 570, 590, 591. Ariulf, leader of the army of Authari and Nordulf, demands that their supplications be granted to him, 607.
He swears peace deceitfully, 1002. Armenius, a bishop, 943; visitor of the Church of Ancona, 1269. Armenius, an orphan, is commended to the patrician Romanus, 643, 644. Armentarius, a man of illustrious rank, 317. Armentarius, a boy of exceptional simplicity and humility, 412. His visions at his death, 413. In his vision he receives the gift of tongues, ibid. Seized with madness, he dies, ibid. What it signifies that the priest by divine law receives the right and separated shoulder in sacrifice, 15, 509. Why the breast is assigned to the priest together with the shoulder, 15, 509. Aroges, duke of Benevento and of the army of the Lombards, 1002, 1192, 1193. How the arrogant man is an abomination to the Lord, 73. The kinship of arrogance and impatience, 43. Arsicinus, a duke, 549.
No art is presumed to be taught unless it is first thoroughly learned, 2. The art of arts is the government of souls, 3. Craftsmen in large cities once combined into guilds, 1058. This institution is traced back to Alexander Severus, ibid. How soothsayers who do not repent are to be treated, if they are free men; how, if they are slaves, 982. One who observes soothsayers and diviners is excommunicated, 1293. Asahel bears the type of the wrathful, 58. What it is to go up from the opposite side, 17, 510. Asclepiodotus, a patrician in the Gauls, 1025. He is praised, 1102. Gregory commends to him the presbyter Candidus, ibid. Asculum, an episcopal city of the March of Ancona, 1229. There is a double city of this name, ibid. The stars are not rational spirits, 622.
The sanctuaries (asyla) were ecclesiastical enclosures from which it was lawful to drag no one, 527, 909. They were called the cloisters of the Lord (claustra dominica), 527. What they contained, ibid. This immunity ceased on account of abuses, ibid. It was not always observed in the same manner, 910. It belongs to the bishops to protect these immunities, 1068. Those who had fled to the asylum of the Church went out only after a pledge had been made to them that they would suffer no violence, 1068, 1076, 1078. Whoever made the pledge void was excommunicated, 1079. Athanasius, a presbyter of Isauria in the monastery of St. Mile, 441, 842. Accused of the Manichaean heresy, 802, 842. He appeals to the Apostolic See, 842. He is absolved, 843. He is ordered to be received in his own rank, 664, 844. He is commended as orthodox, 852.
The marvellous flooding of the river Athesis (Adige), 325. The water of the same river, which could be drawn off, could not be made to flow away, ibid. The troublesome bishop of Atella, 1577. Attic (Attica) is the name given to earthen vessels from the region of Attica in which they were made, 713. Whence the region of Attica is so called, ibid. Those are called auctionarii who sell publicly under the spear, 535. What auctor signifies, 1187. What authority (auctoritas) signifies among the jurisconsults, 1044, 1045. Audentius writes against the Manichaeans and other heretics, 1168. St. Augustine sometimes fortified his letters with this inscription, servant of the servants of God, 481. Why he was unwilling to dwell with his own sister, 977. What silence Augustine feared, 1031. Gregory praises his works, 1067.
St. Augustine, a monk, is sent with his companions into England, 829, 834, 835. When his companions fell in hope and spirit, he returns to Rome from the diocese of Aix, 834. Augustine is set over his companions as abbot, 829. He is commended by Gregory to very many bishops, 830 and following, 1170. Likewise to the kings of the Franks and to queen Brunhild, 834, 835. He is ordained bishop by Virgilius of Arles, 782. Why he is said to have been consecrated by the bishops of the Germanies, 918, 920. He is ordered to bring presbyters from Gaul into England, 834. In the conversion of the English he works many miracles, 1110. He is guarded against pride, ibid. He baptized more than ten thousand of the English on the solemnity of the Lord's Nativity, 918. He is admonished to establish a common life in his Church, 1151.
... of Britain, 1164. He is praised, 1165. No power over the bishops of Gaul was granted to him, 1156. Concerning him and his companions the monks, see the index of the life of St. Gregory. Augustine, delegated to Autun of the Neapolitan city, 1058. Autun (Augustodunum), a city of Gaul, 832. Once the chief city of the Aedui, ibid. It holds first place after the Church of Lyon, 1013. Hence it became a protothronus, 1014. The bishop of Autun, Syagrius, 1288. See his entry and the index of the Letters. Three monasteries founded at Autun by Brunhild, 1219. Augustus, viscount, 1196. Augustus, 1002. Aurelia is conjectured to lie in Tuscia, 320. Aureliana or Aurelia, sister of the patrician Dynamius, not his wife, 858.
Gregory exhorts her, intent upon good works, to perseverance, 885. And consoles her, 1175. She was devoted to hospitality, 1176. Aurelius, bishop of Arles, 1019. He subscribed to the fifth council of Orleans, ibid. Aurelius, a presbyter, seeking the title of presbyter or abbot, is heard and commended by St. Gregory, 1171. What a gold solidus is, 189. A gold coin was sometimes called a solidus, 648. What gold in the priest's vestment signifies, 15, 16, 509. By gold is signified the excellence of holiness, 25. Who is said to have his gold dimmed, ibid. How the Lord enriches us with gold, 73. What the proportion of gold to silver is among the Romans and the Franks, 648. Gallic gold was of far inferior value to Roman, 796.
The river Auser, diverted from its own bed, 293. The Church rejected the severity of Tertullian and Novatus, 657. Authari, the Arian king of the Lombards, dies smitten by God, 502, 607. He forbids the children of the Lombards to be baptized in the catholic faith, 582. Auximum, a city of the March of Ancona, 996. Avarice. He who is laid waste in mind by avarice has a scab upon his body, 12. Avarice not restrained in small things spreads without measure, ibid. Avarice is the service of idols, 30, 1140. It is base to be more zealous for money than for souls, 816. The avaricious man, after the manner of birds, having devoured the bait of earthly things, is strangled in the snare of sin, 65. Riches profit not the avaricious, ibid. The avaricious man becomes disinherited from his eternal patrimony, 66.
What it is for the avaricious man to heap up mire against himself downwards, 65. Achsah sitting upon the ass, what it signifies, 353, 871. Sighing and asking land from her father, what it indicates, ibid. Azimarchus, a scribe, 1085, 1189. B. In ancient monuments the letter B is often changed into V, 977. Babylon healed, yet not made whole, what it signifies, 52. The citizens of Babylon for the most part serve the citizens of Jerusalem, 923. Bacauda, bishop of Fermo, 490, 495. Gregory writes to Bacauda concerning the transfer of a Jewish synagogue elsewhere, 497. Bacauda recalls, by the law of the canons, the clerics of his Church who had been driven from his Church by war, 723. What a staff signifies, 24. Balaam, rebuked by the Angel while the ass he rode threatened, what it signifies, 50.
貪婪者向下為自己堆積污泥是何意，65。阿革撒坐在驢上象徵何意，353、871。她歎息並向父親求地表明何意，同前。阿齊馬爾庫斯，一位文士，1085、1189。B。在古代文獻中，字母 B 常變為 V，977。巴比倫得了醫治，卻未痊癒，象徵何意，52。巴比倫的居民多半服事耶路撒冷的居民，923。巴考達，費爾莫主教，490、495。額我略致函巴考達，論及將一座猶太會堂遷往別處，497。巴考達依教規之法召回其教會中因戰爭被逐出的聖職人員，723。杖象徵何意，24。巴郎在所騎的驢威嚇時被天使斥責，象徵何意，50。
Balaam, an insane man, is rebuked by the dumb beast of burden, 51. Balaam changed his voice, not his mind, ibid. Balaam's time of compunction was brief, 87. To Balbinus, bishop of Roselle, is committed the visitation of the Church of Populonia, 500, 501. Baldinus, bishop of Roselle, 1291. The bath of Cicero, 164. Balneum Regis, or Balneo Regium, an episcopal city of Etruria, 1063, 1064. Baptism takes away sins utterly, 1130 and following, 1131. The error of the Messalians concerning the effect of baptism, 802. It must be believed that infants who die after baptism enter the kingdom of heaven, 400. Who is said to touch a dead man after baptism, 87. Peter taught that penance should precede baptism, 88. The ordinary minister of baptism is the bishop, 521.
巴郎，一個瘋狂之人，被啞口的牲畜所斥責，51。巴郎改變了聲音，卻未改變心意，同前。巴郎痛悔的時候很短暫，87。羅塞萊主教巴爾比努斯受託視察波普洛尼亞教會，500、501。巴爾迪努斯，羅塞萊主教，1291。西塞羅的浴場，164。Balneum Regis 或 Balneo Regium，厄特魯里亞的主教城市，1063、1064。聖洗徹底除去罪，1130及其後，1131。梅撒里派論聖洗功效的謬誤，802。當信凡受洗後去世的嬰孩得進天國，400。何人被說成受洗後觸摸死者，87。伯多祿教導痛悔當先於聖洗，88。聖洗的常規施行者是主教，521。
Presbyters formerly baptized outside the cities, and in the episcopal city sometimes, but not without the authority of the bishop, 522. The laity had the right of baptizing in necessity, but did not have the use of it, 522. In what manner the custom of conferring baptism of each Church is to be retained, 832. The Arians, in order to express their error, baptized by a triple immersion, ibid. The Fathers earlier than Gregory seem to have taught that triple immersion was necessary by divine law, ibid. What is signified by triple and single immersion, ibid. At what seasons of the year baptism was customarily conferred among the Greeks, 911. At what seasons among the Latins, ibid., 918. The constant custom of the Roman Church, 911, 912. When just reason required, the time was sometimes changed, 912.
Why, and what kind of, penance was imposed upon those to be baptized, 912. Baptism is not to be repeated, 608. The scrutinies of baptism, 735. The ancient custom of baptizing Jews and infidels, 543. They were not admitted to baptism of old without great caution, 735. Baptism given in the name of the Trinity, even by heretics, is judged valid, 822, 1167. Which Fathers seem to have rejected the baptism of heretics even after the synod of Nicaea, 822. Whether those coming from heresy are to be rebaptized, 823. Baptism was formerly called the viaticum of catechumens, of which they were not to be defrauded, 733. Baptism can be conferred on a pregnant woman, 1157. And on a newly born infant, 1158. The figure of baptism in the Red Sea, 1131.
Baptismal garments, and their use and form, 729, 730, 893, 912. Gregory bestows garments for those to be baptized, 729, 912. Baptisteries were formerly only in cathedral churches, 321, 572. In several places infants are baptized in the cathedral church, 521. The form and adornment of baptisteries, 671, 809. In the baptisteries the Eucharist was kept, and the relics of the saints were laid up, 809. A baptistery is not to be set up in an oratory, 576, 577, 986, 994. Why a baptistery is ordered to be removed from a monastery, 671. The blessing of a baptistery is committed to the bishop, 808. The use of a constructed baptistery is permitted to bishop Honorius, 1232. What it is to be baptized by a dead man, 87, 1132. Those to be baptized about whose baptism there is no certainty, 1279.
Baraca, or Varaca, a sailor, is rescued from shipwreck by the offering of the sacrifice of the Mass, 469. Barbara, daughter of Venantius, 1115. Gregory consoles her over her father's impending death, 1118. And promises her his patronage, ibid. He commends her to bishop John, 1119. See letter 78, book XI. Barbaricini, inhabitants of Sardinia, 701, 702, 1106, 1108. Over these heathen the Christian Hospito presided, 701. Barbatianus, to be chosen as abbot, if he is prudent and humble, 297. He is accused of excessive haste and imprudence, 1056. Barbarus, bishop of Benevento, is appointed visitor of the Church of Horta, 721. And of Palermo, 1227. By some he is thought to be the third bishop of Chieti, 722. Barce, once a city of Africa, metropolis of Libya, 636.
Today it is called Barca, ibid. Corruptly it is called Baricis, ibid. Near the city of Baricis captives used to be exposed for sale, 636. The bishop of this city, Peter, ibid. Bardocucullus garments, once most well known among the Aquitanians and the Santones, 889. Baricis, see Barce. What Barjona signifies, 1036. That name is a tribute due to emperors alone, 278. A basilica is to be endowed before it is consecrated, 571. In basilicas of old, how the Masses and processions were conducted, see Oratory. How a basilica of monks is to be dedicated, 1043. See Dedication, Oratory. The basilica of Julius at Rome, 1302. The basilica of St. Mary, 1268. St. Gregory gives his effort to the restoration of the basilicas of SS. Peter and Paul, 1192, 1193 and following, 1194. Basilius, bishop of Capua, 1047.
By exercising the office of a forensic proctor, he was becoming debased, 1048. Basilius. His zeal for the unity of the Church against the schismatics is praised, 773. He was not a bishop, 776. Basilius, a Jew, 953, 954. Basilius, a sorcerer who became a monk, 164. His hypocrisy is detected, ibid. Expelled from the monastery, he is afterwards burnt with fire at Rome, 165. Batiola, or Baciola, or Batiolica, is a certain kind of small vessel, 536, 537. Eternal blessedness is expressed by the right hand of God, 77. Blessedness gladdens the elect, 416. There is one blessedness, but unequal reward, 429. The rest in blessedness will be the greater, the more there was here no rest from love of the Creator, 712. Whether the just are separated from glory, 408. The blessed are ignorant of nothing, since they know all things in Him who knows all, 425.
Blessedness (Beatitudo), a title of honour given to bishops, 1064, 1069, and elsewhere in many places. Beator, count of the privy purse, 1233. Contriving perverse things, he is to be restrained, ibid., 1234. Bede, writer of the ecclesiastical history of the English, 1149. In what year he flourished, 106. He calls Gregory the author of the Dialogues, ibid. What he says about a certain letter of St. Gregory, 1150. War. In war, together with the sin and the peril of the parties, the blood of the peasants is shed, whose labour profits both, 938. The day of death of the nun St. Benedicta is revealed by the apostle Peter, 392. Blessing (benedictio) in sacred Scripture is taken for a gift, 648, 712, 763. And so in Gregory, 888, 917, 918. Gregory calls a blessing the cross in which particles of the chains of St. ...
... Peter are enclosed, 648, 659, 702. He calls alms a blessing, 856. St. Benedict. His native country and studies, 208. He despises the world, already as it were withered though in flower, ibid. Leaving his studies, he flees from Rome, ibid., 209. In the place called Enfide he works his first miracle, ibid. He seeks the desert, 209. Clothed with the monastic habit by the monk Romanus, he lies hidden three years in a most narrow cave, ibid. On the day of Easter he is visited by a presbyter warned from heaven, 212. Then by shepherds and neighbouring inhabitants, ibid. How he overcame a grievous temptation of the flesh, 213. He becomes the master of many disciples, ibid. Against his will he is chosen abbot, 216. He detects the poison offered to him by the sign of the cross, 216. He dwells alone by himself, ibid.
What the solitude of Benedict dwelling by himself was, 217. Could St. Benedict have deserted those monks whom he had once received, ibid., 220. He builds twelve monasteries, 220. He frees a wandering monk, struck with a rod, from a demon, 221. He draws forth a spring from the rock, 221. He admits the rude and the ignorant to conversion, 224. He recalls the iron from the depth of the water, like a second Elisha, ibid. He divinely perceives Placidus imperilled in the waters, 224. A contest of humility between St. Benedict and St. Maurus, 225. The presbyter Florentius sends Benedict bread infected with poison, 225. Benedict divinely detects the pestiferous fraud, ibid. Benedict yields to the envy of Florentius, 228. He weeps for the death of his enemy, ibid.
He migrates to Cassino, where, the idols being overthrown, he builds oratories, 229. And he brings the inhabitants of Cassino to the faith, 245. By prayer he puts to flight the devil seated upon a stone, 232. He dissipates a phantom fire in the kitchen, ibid. He heals by prayer a boy monk crushed by the ruin of a wall, 233. By the spirit of prophecy he foretold future things, and saw things absent as though present, 233, 236, 237, 240, 245. He foretells to Totila, king of the Goths, future things and the time of his death, 240. He frees a cleric from a demon for a time, ibid. He predicts the destruction of Cassino, 244. He knows the secret thought of a monk, 248. In time of famine, two hundred measures of flour are found before Benedict's cell, 248. In a vision he arranges the regular places of the monastery of Terracina, 249. That same ...
What power the speech of Benedict had, 252 and following. He excommunicates nuns on account of their incontinence of tongue, 253. Whom after death he absolves from excommunication, ibid. He reconciles a boy monk whom the earth cast up, by means of the Eucharist, 256. He cures a boy of the elephantine disease, 257. Solidi being found by a miracle, he frees a debtor from his creditor, 257. He heals one infected with poison, 257. The liberality of St. Benedict poured out upon the needy is rewarded by a miracle, 260. He rebukes a stingy and disobedient cellarer, 260. He frees a monk from a demon, 261. He tames Zalla, a fierce Goth, 264, 265. His humility in working miracles, 265. His holy contest with St. Scholastica, 268 and following.
He beholds the whole world gathered as it were under a single ray of the sun, 269, 384. He sees the soul of bishop Germanus borne into heaven, ibid., 272. St. Benedict, conspicuous for doctrine, ibid. He wrote a Rule, outstanding for discretion, luminous in speech, ibid. St. Benedict's Rule is praised under the name of the Rule of the monks, 1137. He taught no otherwise than he lived, 273. He bids the monk Martin bind himself not with a chain of iron, but with the chain of Christ, 317. He foretells the day of his own death, 273. Standing in prayer, he renders his soul to God, ibid. At the very moment of his death he signifies his passing to the brethren who were absent, ibid. In what place he was buried, 273. After death he shines forth with miracles, ibid.
Benedict, a monk, 324, a youth in age but in character aged as one grown old at the furnace. Him the Goths try in vain to shut up in his cell and to burn, ibid. A benefice, or ecclesiastical office, whether it may sometimes be lawful to seek it, 1171. It is fitting that benefices be given not to men, but men to benefices, 857. For what causes the union of benefices is to be made, 495. Such unions come about in three ways, 495, 496. The union of benefices, the bishopric excepted, is permitted to bishops, ibid. Unions of benefices, see Unions. Clerics were ordained by their own bishop according to the ancient canons, the right of stipends being granted, 578. In Gregory's time lesser benefices were conferred in another diocese, ibid.
Bishoprics and abbacies were once granted to boys of five years, 659. What the conferrers of benefices should heed, ibid. Benenatus, bishop of Misenum. To him is delegated the visitation of the Church of Cumae, 587. He orders the lapsed monk Cicero, as a servant of his Church, to be restored to him, 761. The case of bishop Benenatus is summoned to Rome, 964. He retains with himself a part of the silver given for building a fortress, 964. Benenatus is substituted in the place of Peter for the purpose of managing the patrimony of the Roman Church at Palermo, 593. To him is committed the examination of the case of bishop Victor, 642, 643. The barbarian bishop of Benevento, 721. See his entry. How the benevolent are to be admonished, 45. Let the benevolent man not be an idle praiser of benefactors, ibid., 46.
Kindness is the companion of patience, 44. Kindness is not to be denied to one who returns to his senses, 1271. The rigour of justice is to be tempered with kindness, 1265, 1266. Berno, abbot of Reichenau, in what year, 107. In his little book he brings forward some things about Gregory's Dialogues, ibid. Bertha, queen of the English, called by some Adilberga, 1112. She contributes very much to the conversion of the English, 1113 and following. She is compared to Helena, ibid. She is stirred up to procure the conversion of the king, ibid. Bethel. Concerning the death of the man of God who had been sent to Bethel, 405. Why a lion killed him, yet did not dare to touch the slain man, 408. A bigamist, or one who has not taken a virgin as wife, is not to be ordained, 704, 1220. Bigamists are barred from holy orders, lest they corrupt the sacrament, 622.
Bigerricae, the cheapest garments, once in use among the Aquitanians, 889. Bisacium is taken sometimes for a cheap garment, sometimes for a costly one, 530, 929. By some it is taken for a shorter cloak, in the same place. Byzacium, a province of Africa in which the kingdom of Tunis now lies, 977, 1202, 1203. Let a council of the province of Byzacena make inquiry against its own primate, in the same place. Clementius, primate of Byzacena, 693. Blanda, once a city of Lucania, an episcopal see, 605. Blandus, bishop of Horta, detained by the exarch, is either to be judged in synod or to be sent back to his own Church, 521, 522. Blera, once a city of Tuscia, an episcopal see, 1210, 1211. Romanus, bishop of the city of Blera, 1291. Bildin, one of the three who always cleaved to Totila, 237. Cardinal Bona is praised, 1167.
Bona, an abbess, is permitted to move to another monastery with her congregation, 650, 651. Bonifacius, bishop of the city of Ferentum in office and character, 184. While still a boy he clothed the naked with his own garments, 189. By his prayers wine overflowed in almost empty vessels, 185. He foretold the death of a jester, 188. He was generous to the poor, in the same place. By his prayers he obtained twelve gold pieces, 189. He foretold to Constantius the punishment of avarice, in the same place. His humility in concealing miracles, 183. His various miracles, 189. Bonifacius, bishop of Rhegium in office, concerning the restraining of his own clergy, 684, 685. In his good works, 616.
Aspiring to praise, he is censured; Gregory writes to him about restoring the property of Stephania seized by the agents of his predecessor, 655ff. He is instituted bishop of the Church of Carina, 799. His case with his clergy, 962. Bonifacius, bishop of Placentia, 1288. St. Boniface, bishop of Mainz, 1149. Bonifacius, provost of the monastery of St. Lucia at Syracuse, 625. Bonifacius, monk of the Gregorian monastery, 341. Bonifacius, notary of the Roman Church, 654, 726. Bonifacius the defensor is commended to Anastasius of Antioch and to Anastasius bishop of Corinth, 517. Bonifacius, defensor of Corsica, 1177. Notary of Corsica, 1234. He is called the first of the defensors, 1244. He is made deacon and sent to Constantinople, in the same place.