Gregory to Faustus. Just as ecclesiastical property is to be restored to the proper persons without any delay, so the caution of the one restoring must be attended to, that no annoyance may afterward arise for him from that very restitution. And therefore, since at the time when a certain Constantius, defensor, father of your glory, had charge of the patrimony of Campania entrusted to him, he is recognized to have taken into his keeping, on account of the responsibility laid upon him, the vessels of the Church of Volturnum—which was, for its sins, bereft of clergy and bishop—and which we have learned that you now hesitate to restore without our consent;
on this account we exhort you by these letters that you ought without any difficulty to restore them to Anthemius the subdeacon under a receipt duly issued, so that both the property of the Church may be held in full by those to whom it belongs, and your glory may be free from all doubt.