He is accused because he said that Christ Jesus, descending to the lower regions, freed from punishment all who confessed Him, 861. Theodore the counselor, 929. Gregory makes to him a donation of a slave by written deed, 637. Theodore, a man of consular rank, 579. Theodore, curator of Ravenna, most zealous for peace, 1001. Gregory consoles him, 1002. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Theodore, master of soldiers, then prefect of Sardinia, 542. He vexed the islanders of Sardinia who were subject to him, 543, 544. Likewise also the poor and the Church, 550, 551. Corrupted by money, Theodore hinders the primate of Byzacena from coming to Rome to be judged, 976. Theodore, chief man of the people, 1005, 1057.
Theodore, physician of the emperor Maurice, a man keen in genius and eloquent, 677. Archiater (chief physician) and ex-prefect, 713. Gregory addresses him with magnificent titles of glory and excellence, 711, 712. Theodore was sent by the patrician Priscus to the king of the Avars with a happy outcome, 677. He sends Gregory money for the ransom of captives, 712. Bound unceasingly by secular affairs, he neglects the reading of sacred Scripture, 712. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Gregory greets Theodore, 493, 877. Theodore the Palatine, 499. Theodore, sacristan (mansionarius) of the Church of St. Peter at Rome, 333. Blessed Peter appears to him by night, in the same place. Theodore, lector of the Church of Thessalonica, 1173.
Theodore, a restless boy, brother of a monk, lived in the monastery of St. Gregory, 437. How, converted at the moment of death, he recovered and, having lived religiously, died, 437, 440. Theodore, a Jewish sorcerer, 891. Theodora, a religious woman, is admitted to the petition against Bishop Januarius, 650, 727. Gregory wishes help to be given to her, who desired to fulfill Stephen's wish concerning the building of a monastery, 695, 728. The 'Theodosiaci' were soldiers of the legion which took its name from Theodosius, son of the emperor Maurice, 608. Theodosianus, deacon of Catania, 900. Theodosius, bishop of Arles, 541. Theodosius is elected abbot of the monastery of St. Martin in Campania, 641.
He pursues three fugitive monks, 761. He asks that the slaves carried off from his monastery be restored, in the same place. He asks that the monastery be dedicated in honor of St. Peter and St. Michael, 762. He complains that he is grievously afflicted by the watches on the walls, 987, 988. Theodosius, son of the emperor Maurice, 1302. When he was taken into partnership of the empire, 676. Theodosius, exactor of the 'burdatio' (a tax), 536. Theodosius, 539, 776. Theodulf, deacon of the city of Paris, often raised a question about the resurrection, 114. Theophanius, count of the city of Centumcellae, devoted to hospitality and other works of mercy, 413. Occupied with earthly cares more from the obligation of his office than from intention, in the same place. Miracles wrought at and after his death, 416.
Theoprobus the monk, familiar to St. Benedict on account of the merits of his life, 244. St. Benedict commands Theoprobus to inquire what is happening concerning bishop Germanus, 269. Theotimus the physician, a most intimate friend of Gregory, 664. Theotistus, kinsman of Maurice Augustus, 805. Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia, 808. Bishops of Thessalonica: Acholius, Anastasius, Anysius, 487. Eusebius, 898, 1267. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. 'Thia' in Greek signifies aunt, 528. Thomas the bishop, 695. Thomas of Corinth, initiated into sacred orders for abandoning an accusation, 780. Whence he was deposed from such an order in perpetuity, in the same place. Thomas, founder of a hospice, 1261. Thomas, defender of the Church of Salona, 1225.
Thomas, a servant of the Church, is granted liberty by Gregory, 800. He is made a notary, and is permitted to enjoy the legacies made to him, 801. Thomas is appointed by Adeodatus as guardian of his sons in the city of Pesaro, 736. In what year the flooding of the Tiber occurred, 116. The Tiber, overflowing, flows in above the walls of the city, 324. It overturns the granaries of the Church, 488. Such an overflowing occurred more than once, 324. Tiberius, bishop of Silva Candida, 1287. Tiberius, one of the sons of Maurice Augustus, 841, 1302. He was not proclaimed emperor, 1287. Tibur (Tivoli), an episcopal city in Latium, 356. An episcopal city of Roman Campania, 638. Bishops of Tivoli: Floridus, 300, 356. Anastasius, 1287, 1291.
Tiburtius, a Roman priest addicted to the vices of the flesh, after his death was seen laid upon a huge pyre and burned, 420. Timarchus, a sentinel, 1081. The fear of man is set not over men, but over the brute animals, 20. To be proud against nature is to wish to be feared by an equal, ibid. The mind that the servitude of fear binds knows not the grace of liberty, 52. What the terrors of the night are, 90. From fear love is born, 353. Sometimes dread alone purges souls at their departure, 453. In this life we ought always to fear, 870. It belongs to rash presumption that the strong should be afraid and the less mighty feel no fear, 977. We must fear even in the good deeds we perform, 1110. Timothea desires that an oratory founded by her in honour of the holy Cross be consecrated, 576.
Paul moderates Timothy's zeal, 57. A dyer's body, buried in the church after his death, is divinely disinterred, 461. The little bells with which the priest was surrounded when entering the tabernacle, what they signify, 17, 311, 1063. Why little bells were inserted into the priest's vestments, 17, 511. Why pomegranates were added to the little bells, 18, 511. The devil broke the little bell that Romanus used to summon Saint Benedict, 212. Recruits. The levy of recruits was a burden on the provinces because of possessions and estates, 594. 'Tituli' (title-markers) are wooden tablets affixed to estates, whether urban or rural, as a sign of possession, 533, 769. What it means to set up title-markers, 1289.
In Gregory's time several priests were assigned to one title-church, 697, 698. Titles were not given to basilicas outside the walls, 698. — The styles of address of abbots: Beloved (Dilectio), 117. Of abbot-priests: Glory (Gloria), 721. — Of defensores: Experience (Experientia), 1209 and elsewhere. — Of deacons: formerly Holiness (Sanctitas), 531. Of deacon-rectors: Beloved (Dilectio), 740, 746. — Of dukes: Glory (Gloria), 543; Greatness (Magnitudo), 975, 1032, 1048, 1268. — Of bishops: Blessedness (Beatitudo), 1064, 1069 and elsewhere; Crown (Corona), 622; Beloved (Dilectio), 1265, 1271, 1272; Fraternity (Fraternitas), 1055, 1056, 1209; Most Reverend (Reverendissimus), 816, 1063; Holiness (Sanctitas), 531, 532, 608, 680. — Of exarchs: Excellence (Excellentia), 1240. — Of emperors: Clemency (Clementia), 1239, 1244; Piety (Pietas), 1244, 1267.
'Tomus' signifies a volume or codex, 793. 'Tomus' also means a trunk and stalk, or a branch cut from a tree, ibid. The Tome of Saint Leo, that is the letter of Saint Leo, ibid., 1270. The clerical tonsure differs from the rite of solemnly cutting the hair, 576. The clerical tonsure was customarily given separately, before the seventh century, ibid. Many formerly are recorded as tonsured without dimissorial letters, 566. Who are called 'tonsurers' (tonsuratores), 978, 979. Sluggishness is neighbour to meekness, 56. Tortona, an episcopal city of Italy, 1035, called Dertona, ibid. Torture. Who are exempted from torture by written law, 629. In Gaul few are immune from it, even in the ecclesiastical court, if the crime be atrocious, ibid.
The examination of crime that was made through affliction is disapproved by Gregory, 1060, 1061. Totila, king of the Goths, experiences the spirit of prophecy in which Saint Benedict was mighty, 237. Totila is rebuked by Saint Benedict for his evil deeds, and receives foreknowledge of what is to come upon him, 237, 240. In what year that meeting of Saint Benedict with Totila took place, 239. He orders Bishop Cerbonius to be exposed to bears, 297; and Bishop Fulgentius to be bound in chains, 300. Totila is softened by a miracle, ibid. Totila and the ferocity of the Goths, 301. Gregory orders beams to be conveyed to Rome for the churches of Saints Peter and Paul, 1193. Delivery (traditio) is the giving of possession, 637. He who accepts delivery acquires no right, 637.
Trajan, made bishop of Malta from being an abbot, 1042, 1230. Monks are granted to him for his comfort, but with the permission of the diocesan bishop, 1042. Trajan, a man of good mind, but not judged suitable for the bishopric of the city of Syracuse, 741. Tranquillity. Because of temporal tranquillity present things often delight, and eternal things are not sought, 69. It is the mark of a great soul, amid the turmoils of affairs, not to have been troubled, 854. The rectors of the district beyond the Jura and of the Scutingi in Burgundy, now dukes, are more often called patricians, 493. The translation of the bodies of Saints Peter and Paul made by Pope Cornelius, 710. The translation of relics.
See Relics. — How translation from Latin into Greek ought to be made, 877. — Translations of episcopal sees, 495, 578. Trecala, or Tricala, or Triocala, a city formerly episcopal in Sicily, 737. The bishop of Trecala, Peter, 737, 1137. Tergeste. See Tergestum. The tremissis, a third part of the gold solidus, 570, 707, 734. It was almost equivalent to our silver crown, 708. Tres Tabernae (Three Taverns), a city formerly of Latium, 614. Its see is united to the church of Velletri, 614. Tribulation. The fire of tribulation, when it does not purge the rust of the vices, shows a hardened soul, 53. For those placed in the utmost tribulation the only consolation is the mercy of the Creator, 1062.
God did not promise His elect in this life the joys of delight, but the bitternesses of tribulation, 1127. Let not tribulation crush our strength, 1233. The Council of Tribur of the year 895. It relates a story taken from Gregory's Dialogues, 107. There were various ranks of tribunes, 499. A tribune who was a cleric, 696. Tributes profit less toward advantage if they are gathered with sin, 769. Formerly the possessions of ecclesiastics were immune from every tribute, 1017. Tributes are to be paid even by religious, 1059. Tricala. See Trecala. The origin of the trentals of Masses, 468. Trinity. Abraham, greeting the three angels as one, declared that the subsistences of the Trinity are of one substance, 617. Baptism is to be conferred in the name of the Trinity, 1167.
Otherwise, the baptism is void, 1168. What a 'tripedica' (three-legged stool) is, 261. The devil, furnished with a tripedica, appears to Saint Benedict, ibid. Which sad persons are to be admonished, 37. The sad readily have anger, ibid. Wheat. By the measure of wheat the measure of the word is expressed, 99. Wheat miraculously multiplied, 192; what it signifies, 426. Tropaea, a city of Calabria, 569. The monks of Tropaea, if they live religiously, are to be helped, ibid. Todi (Tudertum), an episcopal city in Umbria, 192. The bishops of Todi: Fortunatus, 190 (see his entry); Sabinianus, 1288. Tullianus, master of the soldiery, 900. 'Tultus,' that is, taken away, 608, 973, 974, 1035, 1107, 1108. Tunic. By the tunic the Roman orders were distinguished, 1012. In what tunics differ from dalmatics, ibid.
Pelagius, bishop of Turni, 830. Turris, an episcopal city in Sardinia, 550. The visitation of its church is committed, 1052. The bishop of Turris (Torres), Marinianus, 550, 932. Gregory orders that guardians be given to the wards of the Church's tenant-farmers, to govern their goods, 535. A guardian is forbidden to marry his ward, 575. Timbrel. What it means to praise God on the timbrel but not in the choir, 68. What it means to praise God on the timbrel and in the choir, 880. Tyndaris, a city formerly episcopal in Sicily, 672, 994. The bishop of Tyndaris, Eutychius, 672. What the letter signifies, 135. What it means for the breasts to be pressed in Egypt, 82. The 'ulna' is sometimes taken for a cubit, sometimes for the space to which either hand is extended, 671. Vengeance.
Some seek vengeance not at once but long after injuries have been inflicted, 44, 45. To whom these are like, 45. Discreet leniency in correction has more strength than severity in carrying out vengeance, 1051. The mutual concord of the prelates of the Church is to be fostered more zealously, 879. An ounce (uncia) consists of five hundred and seventy-six grains, 708. There are six solidi in an ounce, 648, 708. Nine ounces, that is three quarters of a thing, 537. An heir to six ounces, that is the heir of half the inheritance, 537, 539, 626. An heir to eight ounces, that is one who obtains two of the three parts, 577, 990. An heir to four ounces, that is one who obtains only one part of three, 673, 990. An heir to one ounce, 1189, 1190.
The cause of the union of churches is the advantage or necessity of the Church, 495. How many are the reasons for uniting one church to another, ibid. Churches are united in three ways, ibid. The church of Carini is united to that of Reggio, 597, 799. Cumae is united to Misenum, 606. Formia is united to Minturno, 495. The church of the Three Taverns is united to that of Velletri, 614. With what zeal unity is to be procured, 972. The name 'universal bishop' is called by Gregory a name of error, 742; a foolish and proud word, ibid.; a perverse word, 742, 743; an impious word, 745, 850; a wicked word, 747; a name of blasphemy in which the honour of all priests is taken away, 749, 771; a word of pride, through which grave scandal is generated in the churches, 878.
By this word he says the faith of the whole Church is corrupted, 873. Gregory inveighs against this title, 749, 881, 984. Gregory is wrongly blamed, as though he gave place to scandal for no cause, 873, 881. The title of 'universal bishop' was offered to the Roman pontiffs in several petitions at the Council of Chalcedon, 743, 749, 750, 771, 919. But none of them wished to usurp it for himself, 749, 771, 919. Pope Hadrian at the Seventh Synod disputed with Tarasius about this title, 749. Gregory rejected it when offered to him, 771, 919. In what sense the Greeks attributed the title 'ecumenical' to their patriarch, 749, 772. What the letter signifies, 190. Urbanus, abbot of a monastery outside Cagliari, 1107. Urbicus, a provost, 596, 732.
He is said to be abbot of the monastery of Saint Hermes at Palermo, 824. Who he was, 1136. He is charged with imprudence, 1136ff. He is more harshly rebuked by Gregory, 1137. See the alphabetical index of Letters. The election of Urbicus as bishop of Palermo is approved, 1228. Why, though reluctant, he is not compelled, ibid. Urbicus, a defensor, 639. Urbicus, husband of the lady Palatina, 528. Urbino, a city of Umbria, 641. The bishop of Urbino, Leontius, 641, 774. Urbitius, bishop of Durazzo (Dyrrachium), 898, 983. Orvieto (Urbs Vetus), an episcopal city of Etruria, 498. The bishop of Orvieto, John, 498. 'Urgere' among profane authors is sometimes taken for 'to be imminent,' 440. Ursicinus, bishop of Cahors, to whom, though deposed, his right was preserved, but curtailed and restricted, 495.
Ursicinus, bishop of Turin, 1022. Gregory demands that the parishes taken from Ursicinus be restored, 1022, 1023. Ursicinus, who wrote against John, bishop of Ravenna, is to be restrained, 720. The monk Ursus, summoned by another monk who was dying, though far distant, dies, 425, 428. Ursus ministers to Florentius, servant of God, 309; he pastures the sheep, ibid. Ustica, an island of Sicily, one of the Aeolian isles, 469. Usury is forbidden by divine and canon law, 955. But what usury, and for whom, is not so certain, ibid. It pleases Gregory that money be lent to the Church's tenant-farmers in need without interest, 734, 735. Use and right are sometimes separated, 522. 'Utilitas' (advantage) is taken for 'occupation,' 591, 592.
Udine (Utinum), a city in the province of Friuli, having the patriarchal see translated to Aquileia, 502. Otricoli (Utriculum), a town of Umbria, 299; its various names, ibid. The bishop of Otricoli, Dominic, 1291. What it signifies for a brother to refuse to take the wife of his deceased brother, 6. What it means for a woman to spit in the face of the man unwilling to take her, 7. What it means to have a wife as though not having one, 79. Valdarichus, 1191. Valentinian, first abbot of the Lateran monastery, 208. Valentinian, a monk of Gregory's monastery, whose death is foretold, 409. Valentinus, the abbot under whom Gregory professed the monastic life, 172. Valentinus, an abbot, 722. Valentinus, defensor of the Church of Milan, a very slippery man, 461.
His body, buried in the church of Blessed Syrus the martyr, the demons disinterred by night and dragged outside the church, ibid. Valentinus, a priest of the monastery, 954. Valentio, an African bishop, 916. Valentio, first abbot of a monastery in the province of Valeria, then of the monastery of Saint Andrew (Gregory's) at Rome, 404. From him Gregory learned what he relates about a certain priest in his Dialogues, 329, 404. On what day his memory is celebrated, 404. Valeria, a region of Latium, 164; whence it is so called, 1042; also called the province of the Marsi, 405. Valerianus, a Roman priest, sent to Barca in Africa to redeem captives, 636. Valerianus, a cleric of the Church of Fermo, 943. A notary of the same Church built an oratory on his own estate, 980. Valerianus, a monk, 756.
Valerianus, an advocate at Rome, 412. Valerianus, a patrician, scorns to set a limit to his depraved habits, 460. Because the bishop of Brescia had buried him in a church after his death, that bishop was punished with a sudden death, ibid., 461. Health. See Salus. What a 'vanga' (spade) is, 301. Vanity. What those ought to consider who do evil secretly and good publicly, 95. They are whitewashed sepulchres, 95; they sell a thing of infinite price cheaply, ibid.; they live for others and die to themselves, 95. In what manner Christ said our works are to be seen, and in what manner not to be seen, 96. If the appetite for pleasing men creeps in, all the labour of a good work is done in vain, 626. Vantilonus, 1024. Gap (Vapincum or Vapingum), a city of Gaul, 1011. The bishop of Gap, Aregius, ibid.
Varmaricarius, envoy of Brunhild, 1219, 1220; and of Theoderic, 1221. See Bargoaldus. The Varronian estate, 537. Who are truly called 'vessels of the Lord,' 508. Who are the keepers of the vessels, 213; the sacred vessels are the minds of the faithful, ibid. The clerics of the Church of Venafro sold sacred vessels to a Jew, 554. The laws and canons permit sacred vessels to be sold off for the redemption of captives, 859, 886. Vectanus, a count, 985. What the bars of setim (acacia) wood, gilded, and the rings to be inserted into the ark signify, 34. Why the bars are ordered to be overlaid with gold, ibid.; why they ought always to be in the rings, ibid. 'Vel' (or) has the force of the copulative 'And,' 702. Velia, a city formerly episcopal of Lucania, 605. Velletri (Velitrae), a city of Campania in Italy, 578. The see of Velletri by Saint
Gregory was translated to a safer place, 578, 579. To the Church of Velletri is united the Church of the Three Taverns with all its rights and emoluments, 614. The bishop of Velletri, John, 1287, 1291; see his entry. Velox, master of the soldiers, 570. Veil. Virgins formerly did not receive the veil immediately after making their vow of virginity, 692. The blessing of the veil belonged to the bishop, 693, 754. The veil was formerly given solemnly to virgins at the altar, 693. The blessing of an abbess's veil was more solemn than that of the other nuns, 692. The most ancient custom of veiling virgins, 754. To lay aside the veiling is a sacrilege, 754. Veils hung in churches, 1123, 1124. Venafro, a city of Campania in Italy, 554.
The clerics of this Church sold the sacred furnishings to a Jew, which Saint Gregory orders to be restored and the clerics to be subjected to penance, 555. Let no venality be found in ordinations, 659, 660. See Simony. Venantius, bishop of Luni, 293, 296, 297, 461. See the alphabetical index of Letters. Venantius, bishop of Perugia, 1211. Venantius, a bishop, 1238. Venantius, a patrician and former monk, 153; he was not a chancellor, 522. Gregory exhorts him to return more quickly to the monastic life, 523. Venantius took a wife, from whom he had daughters Barbara and Antonina, 522, 1033. Gregory tries to recall the same man, when near death, to the monastic habit, 522.
A council to be convened is offered to him in which his case might be argued, 524. Gregory despairs of his salvation unless he withdraw from marriage and put on the monk's habit, 523. How solicitous Gregory was for his salvation, 1119ff. See the alphabetical index of Letters. Venantius, a patrician of Palermo, 1183, 1208, 1228. Venantius, grandson of the patrician Optio, 619. Poison drunk after the sign of the cross does no harm, 288. Saint Benedict heals one infected with poison, 257. 'Venerari' is sometimes taken passively by Gregory, 379, 380. Venerius, bishop of Cagliari, 1303. Whether the letter of Gregory circulated as addressed to him is genuine, 1304. Venerius, bishop of Vibo, 962.
To him is committed the visitation of the Church of Tauriana, 1052. Pardon for the sins of thought is easy, 86. He rightly asks pardon for his own offence who first remits the things committed against himself, 473. The easiness of pardon is pernicious, 637. What it means 'to come to the commonwealth,' 766. Vennianus, 1039. Belly. By the name of the belly the mind is signified, 51. The belly is designated by the name of the chief of the cooks, 61. He who serves the belly is bound by the snares of the vices, 62. What the wind signifies, 56. What it means that 'he who observes the wind does not sow,' ibid. Which talkative persons are to be admonished, 54. The Word of God is partly written, partly handed down: both alike are to be venerated by the faithful, 515. How the divine Word was made flesh, 1168. Amid human words the heart flows away, 33.
What it means to be ensnared by the words of one's own mouth, 38. From idle words one comes to harmful ones, 34, 55, 313. What an idle word is, 53. Which bashful persons are to be admonished, 41. Truth. Nothing is easier to speak than the truth, 47. It is a lesser fault not to know the truth than not to remain in it once known, 301. Which crafty (double-faced) persons are to be admonished, 47, 48. The bishop of Besançon, Vitalis, 1288. 'Vestiarium' is taken either for a wardrobe of clothes or for the vesture itself, 650. The 'vestiarius' is he who has charge of the wardrobe, ibid.; there is also a second under the vestiarius, and a supreme prefect of the wardrobe, ibid. Footprint. To linger at the footsteps of emperors, 1130. What the vestments of the priest signify, 17, 511.
Why little bells were inserted into the vestments of the priest, ibid. Veteranus, a priest of the Church of Salona, 1065, 1223. Those who keep the narrow way in the peace of the Church are prepared for martyrdom, 340. The way trodden by the just, over a bridge, signified in a vision, 432, 433, 436. 'Viaticum' is used for Eucharistic communion, 397, 733; for absolution, 397. The ancients called 'viaticum' everything that was of profit for a secure departure from this life, 733, 926. The viaticum is not to be denied to those doing penance when death is imminent, 1250. Viator, a deacon of Catania, 900. Viator, a former tribune, 1003. Vibo, a city formerly episcopal of the Bruttii, now a fortress of the province of Further Calabria, 825. 'Vicarius' sometimes means the same as 'successor,' 1095, 1300.
Other significations of this word, 1104, 1105, 1106. The Pope was formerly accustomed to appoint metropolitans or bishops as his vicars in the remote provinces outside Italy, 487. In Sicily he commits his office to a subdeacon, ibid. An image of the great vicars, 565; they were called priests and bishops of the second order, ibid. The vicariate of the Apostolic See is sometimes conferred on a place, not a person; sometimes on a person, not a place, 573. What this vicariate was formerly granted to the bishop of Arles, 781. Gregory commits his office in Gaul to Vigilius of Arles, 781. What his power was, 783. Alone he decided nothing except in lighter cases, 784. How he ought to conduct himself in matters of faith or greater affairs, ibid.
Vicars or lieutenants were formerly called senators, 593, 594. The prefect of the City was distinct from the vicar of the City, 1076. Under the vicar of the City there were ten provinces, ibid. What a viscount (vicecomes) is, 909. Vicedominus. The duties of the vicedominus were various, 498; their dignity, ibid. The vicedominus is today called 'major domus' (steward of the house), ibid. The vicedomini were sometimes distinguished from the stewards (oeconomi), ibid.; what their charge was, 498, 832. A vicedominus is to be appointed by the bishop, 1172; or by the whole clergy, if the bishop neglect it, ibid. Victor, primate of Numidia, 715, 915, 1198, 1199, 1200. Victor, bishop of Palermo, is ordered to come to Rome to clear himself, 557. His case is committed to Abbot Marinianus and the notary Benenatus for examination, 642, 613.
If he be guilty, he is to be deprived of communion and confined in a monastery, 732. He is ordered to pay a price for the synagogues of the Jews unjustly occupied and rashly consecrated, 973, 974. See the alphabetical index of Letters. Victor, bishop of Fausiana in Sardinia, 932, 1093. He devotes himself to converting the idolaters in Sardinia, 1166. Victor, a deacon of Carthage, 609. Who those are who, victors in the field, are taken captive within the walls, 45. Victory. Without the labour of the contest there is no palm of victory, 325. Victory is to be attributed not to the valour of the soldiers but to the will of God, 678. A more excellent victory is born out of desperation, one won by the sweat of excessive toil, 776. Victoria, in the matter of the affairs of the monastery of Saint
Martin in Sicily, the goods having been dispersed, Victoria was seeking the office of prioress and afterward of abbess, 732. Gregory orders her to be examined and, when the things she had given have been returned, to be sent off to another monastery, ibid. Victorianus, a priest, 1044. Victorinus, bishop of Taormina, 558. Victorinus, a deacon of Numidia, 659, 660. Victorius composed a Paschal cycle in the middle of the fifth century, 1037. The Scots (Irish) and Saint Columban rejected this cycle, 1037. Columban demands that it be rejected by the Roman Church, 1038. The care of widows belongs to the bishops, 499. It was granted to the bishops by emperors and kings to defend their cases, 627. The canons forbid the widows of clerics, once their husbands are dead, to marry again, 716.