The bishop of Utriculum: Dominicus, 1291. What it signifies that a man refuses to take the wife of his deceased brother, 6. What it means to spit in the face of one who refuses to take her, 7. What it means to have a wife as though not having one, 79. Valdarichus, 1191. Valentinianus, first abbot of the Lateran monastery, 208. Valentinianus, 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, defender of the Church of Milan, a man exceedingly slippery of morals, 461. His body, buried in the church of the blessed martyr Syrus, was disinterred by night by demons and dragged outside the church, ibid. Valentinus, priest of a monastery, 954.
Valentio, an African bishop, 916. Valentio, first abbot of a monastery in the province of Valeria, then of the monastery of St. Gregory at Rome, 404. From him Gregory learned the things which he relates concerning 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. It was called the province of the Marsi, 405. Valerianus, a Roman priest sent to Barca in Africa for the redemption of captives, 636. Valerianus, a cleric of the Church of Fermo, 943. A notary of the same Church built an oratory on his own estate, 986. Valerianus, a monk, 756. Valerianus, an advocate at Rome, 412. Valerianus, a patrician, disdains to set any limit to his depraved ways, 460.
Because the bishop of Brescia had buried this man in a church after his death, he was punished by a sudden death, ibid., 461. Health. See Salvation. What a mattock is, 304. 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 for a trifle, 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 desire of pleasing men creeps in, all the labour of a good work is done in vain, 626. Vantilonus, 1024. Vapincum or Vapingum (Gap), a city of Gaul, 1011. The bishop of Gap: Aregius, ibid. Varmaricarius, an envoy of Brunhild, 1219, 1220. And of Theoderic, 1221. See Bargoaldus. The Varronian estate, 537.
Who are said to carry the vessels of the Lord, 13, 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 the vessels to a Jew, 554. Laws and canons permit that sacred vessels be sold off for the redemption of captives, 859, 886. Vectanus, a count, 985. The bars of gilded acacia wood and the rings to be inserted into the ark—what they signify, 34. Why the bars are commanded to be overlaid with gold, ibid. Why they must always remain in the rings, ibid. 'Vel' has the force of the connective 'And,' 702. Velia, a city once episcopal, of Lucania, 605. Velitrae (Velletri), a city of Campania in Italy, 578. The see of Velletri was transferred by St. Gregory to a safer place, 578, 579.
To the Church of Velletri is united the Church of Tres Tabernae with all its rights and revenues, 614. The bishop of Velletri: John, 1287, 1291. See his entry. Velox, a master of soldiers, 570. The veil. Formerly virgins did not receive the veil immediately after making the vow of virginity, 692. The blessing of the veil pertained 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 up in churches, 1123, 1124. Venafrum (Venafro), a city of Campania in Italy, 554. The clerics of this Church sold the sacred furnishings to a Jew, which St. [Gregory orders to be restored].
Gregory orders that they be restored, and the clerics subjected to penance, 555. Let there be no venality 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 speedily to the monastic life, 523. Venantius took a wife, from whom he begot daughters Barbara and Antonina, 522, 1033. Gregory tries to recall the same man, when near to death, to the monastic habit, 522. He offers to convene a council in which his case might be argued, 524.
Gregory despairs of his salvation unless he withdraws from marriage and puts 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, nephew of the patrician Opilio, 619. Poison drunk after the sign of the cross does no harm, 288. St. Benedict heals one infected by poison, 257. 'To venerate' is sometimes taken passively by Gregory, 379, 380. Venerius, bishop of Cagliari, 1303. Whether the letter of Gregory that circulates as addressed to him is genuine, 1304. Venerius, bishop of Vibo, 962. To him is committed the visitation of the Church of Tauriana, 1652. Pardon for sins of thought is easy, 86.
He rightly asks pardon for his offence who first releases the wrongs committed against himself, 473. Easiness of pardon is pernicious, 637. What it means to 'come to the commonwealth,' 766. Vennianus, 1039. The 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 in the snares of the vices, 62. What the wind signifies, 56. What it means that he who observes the wind does not sow, ibid. How the verbose are to be admonished, 54. The Word of God is partly written, partly handed down by tradition; both are to be equally venerated by the faithful, 515. In what way 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 passes to harmful ones, 34, 35, 313. What an idle word is, 53.
How the bashful are to be admonished, 41. Truth. Nothing is easier for speaking than the truth, 47. It is a lesser excess not to know the truth than, having known it, not to abide in it, 301. How the crafty are to be admonished, 47, 48. The bishop of Besançon: Vitalis, 1288. 'Vestiarium' is taken either for the wardrobe of garments or for the vestiary property itself, 650. The vestiarius, who has charge of the wardrobe, ibid. There is also a second in rank after the vestiarius; and the highest is the prefect of the vestiary, ibid. Footprint. To linger at the footprints of emperors, 1130. What the vestments of the priest signify, 17, 511. Why little bells are inserted into the priest's vestments, ibid. Veteranus, priest of the Church of Salona, 1065, 1223.
Those who hold the narrow way in the peace of the Church are prepared for martyrdom, 340. The steep path of the just, signified by a bridge 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 advantage for a secure departure from this life, 733, 926. Viaticum is not to be denied to those doing penance when death is imminent, 1250. Viator, deacon of Catania, 900. Viator, a former tribune, 1003. Vibo, a city once episcopal of the Bruttii, now a fortress of the province of Further Calabria, 825. 'Vicarius' sometimes signifies the same as 'successor,' 1095, 1300. Other significations of this word, 1104, 1105, 1106.
The Pope was formerly accustomed to appoint his vicars, either metropolitans or bishops, in provinces remote outside Italy, 487. In Sicily he commits his office to a subdeacon, ibid. The 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 granted to a place, not to a person; sometimes to a person, not to a place, 573. To what bishop of Arles this vicariate was formerly given, 781. Gregory commits his office in the Gauls to Virgilius 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. The vicars or place-holders were formerly called senators, 593, 594.
Another is appointed prefect by the vicar of the City, 1076. Under the vicar of the City there were ten provinces, ibid. What a viscount is, 909. The vicedominus. The duties of the vicedominus were various, 498. Their dignity, ibid. The vicedominus is today called the major-domo, ibid. The vicedomini were sometimes distinguished from the stewards (oeconomi), ibid. What their charge was, 498, 832. The vicedominus is to be appointed by the bishop, 1172. Or by the whole clergy, if the bishop neglects 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. The examination of his case is committed to abbot Marinianus and the notary Benenatus, 642, 643. If he is guilty, he is to be deprived of communion and shut up in a monastery, 643.
He is charged with negligence concerning a monastery, 732. For synagogues of the Jews unjustly seized and rashly consecrated, he is ordered to pay the price, 973, 974. See the alphabetical Index of Letters. Victor, bishop of Fausiana in Sardinia, 932, 1093. He is engaged in converting the idolaters in Sardinia, 1106. Victor, deacon of Carthage, 609. What victors are called in a field within the walls, 45. Victory. Without the toil of contest there is no palm of victory, 325. Victory is to be attributed not to the valour of soldiers but to the will of God, 678. A more excellent victory is born of despair, one that has been won by the sweat of exceeding toil, 776. Victoria, when the goods of the monastery of St. [Martin]...
of St. Martin in Sicily had been scattered, aspired to the office of prioress and afterwards of abbess, 732. Gregory orders her to be examined, and, having restored what she had given, to be sent away into another monastery, ibid. Victorianus, a priest, 1044. Victorinus, bishop of Taormina, 558. Victorinus, deacon of Numidia, 659, 660. Victorius composed the Paschal cycle in the middle of the fifth century, 1037. The Scots and St. Columban rejected this cycle, 1037. Columban demands that it be rejected by the Roman Church, 1038. The care of widows pertains to the bishops, 499. It was granted to the bishops by emperors and kings to protect their causes, 627. The canons forbid the widows of clerics, their husbands dead, to marry again, 716.
A widow whose husband abstained from his ministry is not bound by this law, 717. Why second marriages are forbidden to the widows of clerics, 716. Vienne, a city of the Gauls, for a time a rival of the Church of Arles, 831. The breast bared of the breastplate of vigilance lies open to darts, 89, 90. The vigilant mind is like the steersman of a ship, 90. A mind sleeping from care of its own solicitude is beaten and feels no pain, 90. It is dragged and does not perceive it, 90. Under the protection of God one must keep watch, 328. How useful is a cautious provision against faults, 976. Gregory asks that the household of Vigildus be released, 571. Pope Vigilius, wavering concerning the Fifth Council and the Three Chapters to be condemned, 615. He gave occasion to schism, or added force to it, 682. He condemned the Empress Theodora and the Acephali, 615.
And Theodore, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, 616. Vigilius exercised the office of the prefecture of Milan before John, 953. Vincentius, deacon of the Church of Lamigo, complained to Gregory about his bishop Argentius, 566, 567. Vincentius of Lérins, a monk, 1101. Vincomalus is appointed defender of the Church, 756, 823. Vintarith, 1242. What wine signifies, 23. How the Lord bestows His wine upon us, 73. Tregestum. See Tergestum. The tremissis, the third part of a gold solidus, 570, 707, 734. It was equivalent to about our silver crown, 708. Tres-Tabernae, formerly a city of Latium, 614. Its see is united to the Church of Velitrae, 614. Tribulation. The fire of tribulation, when it does not purge away the rust of vices, shows the soul to be hardened, 53.
For those placed in the greatest 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 bitterness of tribulation, 1127. Let tribulation not crush one's strength, 1233. The Council of Tribur in 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 usefulness if they are collected with sin, 769. Formerly the possessions of ecclesiastics were exempt from all tribute, 1017. Tributes are to be paid even by religious, 1059. Tricala. See Trecala. The origin of the trentals of Masses, 468. Trinity.
Abraham, saluting the three angels as one, declared the subsistences of the Trinity to be of one substance, 617. Baptism is to be conferred in the name of the Trinity, 1167. Otherwise it is null, 1168. What the tripedica is, 261. The devil appears to Saint Benedict furnished with a tripedica, ibid. Which sad persons are to be admonished, 37. The sad readily fall into anger, ibid. Wheat. By the measure of wheat the manner of the word is expressed, 99. Wheat multiplied by a miracle, 192. What it signifies, 426. Tropea, a city of Calabria, 569. The monks of Tropea, if they live in a religious manner, are to be assisted, ibid. Todi, an episcopal city in Umbria, 192. The bishops of Todi: Fortunatus, 190. See his heading. Sabinianus, 1288. Tullianus, master of the soldiery, 900. Tultus.
That is, one carried off, 608, 973, 974, 1035, 1107, 1108. Tunic. By the tunic the Roman ranks were distinguished, 1012. In what way tunics differ from dalmatics, ibid. Of Turin, the bishop Pelagius, 830. Turris, an episcopal city in Sardinia, 550. The visitation of its Church is entrusted, 1052. The bishop of Turris, Marinianus, 550, 932. Gregory orders that guardians be given to the orphans 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, formerly an episcopal city in Sicily, 672, 994. The bishop of Tyndaris, Eutychius, 672. What it signifies, 135.
What it means for the breasts to be pressed in Egypt, 82. The ell (ulna) is sometimes taken for the cubit, sometimes for the span to which both hands are extended, 671. Vengeance. Some do not seek vengeance at once, but long after injuries have been inflicted, 44, 45. To whom these are like, 45. Discreet leniency in correction has more power than strictness in exacting vengeance, 1051. The mutual harmony of the prelates of the Church is to be fostered more zealously, 879. An ounce is of five hundred and seventy-six grains, 708. Six solidi to an ounce, 648, 708. Nine ounces, that is three quarters of any thing, 537. These matters into six ounces; that is, the heir of the middle part of the succession, 537, 539, 626.
An heir in eight ounces, that is, one who obtains two of three parts, 577, 990. An heir in four ounces, that is, one who obtains only one part of three, 673, 990. An heir in one ounce, 1189, 1190. The cause of the union of Churches is the advantage or necessity of the Church, 495. How many reasons there are for uniting one Church to another, ibid. Churches are united in three ways, ibid. The Church of Carina is united to that of Reggio, 597, 799. Cumae is united to Misenum, 606. Formiae is united to Minturnae, 493. The Church of Tres Tabernae is united to that of Velitrae, 614. With what zeal unity is to be procured, 972. The name of universal bishop is called by Gregory a name of error, 742. A foolish and proud term, ibid. A perverse term, 742, 743.
An unspeakable term, 745, 850. A wicked term, 747. A name of blasphemy in which the honor of all priests is taken away, 749, 771. A word of pride, through which grave scandal is generated in the churches, 878. By this term he says the whole faith of the Church is corrupted, 873. Gregory is found under this heading, 749, 881, 984. Gregory is wrongly accused, as though he gave occasion to scandal for no cause, 873, 881. The title of universal bishop was offered in the Council of Chalcedon in certain petitionary documents to the Roman pontiffs, 743, 749, 750, 771, 919. But none of them wished to usurp this to himself, 749, 771, 919. Pope Hadrian in the Seventh Synod contended with Tarasius about this title, 749.
Gregory rejected this when it was offered to him, 771, 919. In what sense the Greeks attributed the title of ecumenical to their patriarch, 749, 772. What it signifies, 190. Urbanus, abbot of a monastery outside Cagliari, 1107. Urbicus, provost, 596, 732. He is said to be abbot of the monastery of Saint Hermes at Palermo, 824. Who he was, 1136. He is accused of imprudence, 1136 and following. He is rather harshly rebuked by Gregory, 1137. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. The election of Urbicus to be bishop of Palermo is approved, 1228. Why one who resists is not to be compelled, ibid. Urbicus, defender, 639. Urbicus, husband of the lady Palatina, 528. Urbinum, a city of Umbria, 641. The bishop of Urbino, Leontius, 641, 774. Urbitius, bishop of Dyrrachium, 898, 983. Urbs Vetus (Orvieto), an episcopal city of Etruria, 498.
The bishop of Urbs Vetus, John, 498. Among profane authors, 'urgere' (to press) is sometimes taken for 'to be imminent,' 410. Ursicinus, bishop of Cahors, to whom, when deposed, his right was preserved, but curtailed and restricted, 495. Ursicinus, bishop of Turin, 1022. Gregory demands that the parishes taken away be restored to Ursicinus, 1022, 1023. Ursicinus, who wrote against John, bishop of Ravenna, is to be restrained, 720. Ursus, a monk, though far distant, was summoned by another dying monk and merited it, 425, 428. Ursus ministers to Florentius, servant of God, 309. He pastures sheep, ibid. Ustica, an island of Sicily, one of the Aeolian islands, 469. Usury is forbidden by divine and canon law, 955. But what precisely is usury, and to whom it applies, is not so certain, ibid.
It pleases Gregory that money be lent to the Church's tenants in necessity, without interest, 734, 735. Use and right are sometimes separated, 522. Usefulness is taken for occupation, 591, 592. Utinum (Udine), a city in the province of Friuli, having its patriarchal see, transferred to Aquileia, 502. Otricoli, a town of Umbria, 299. Its various names, ibid. The bishop of Otricoli, Dominicus, 1291. What it signifies for a brother to refuse to take the wife of his deceased brother, 6. What it means to spit in the face of a woman unwilling to be taken, 7. What it means to have a wife as though not having one, 79. Valdarichus, 1191. Valentinianus, first abbot of the Lateran monastery, 208. Valentinianus, a monk of the Gregorian monastery, whose death is foretold, 409.
Valentinus, the abbot under whom Gregory professed the monastic life, 172. Valentinus, abbot, 722. Valentinus, defender of the Church of Milan, a very unsteady man, 461. Demons at night dug up his body, buried in the church of the blessed martyr Syrus, and dragged it outside the church, ibid. Valentinus, priest of the monastery, 954. Valentinus, an African bishop, 916. Valentio, first abbot of a monastery in the province of Valeria, then of the monastery of Saint Gregory at Rome, 404. From him Gregory learned the things which 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. It was called the province of the Marsi, 405.
Valerianus, a Roman priest, sent to Barca in Africa to ransom captives, 636. Valerianus, cleric of the Church of Fermo, 943. The notary of the same Church built an oratory on his own estate, 986. Valerianus, a monk, 756. Valerianus, an advocate at Rome, 412. Valerianus, a patrician, disdains to set a limit to his depraved ways, 460. Because the bishop of Brescia buried him in the church after his death, he was punished with a sudden death, ibid., 461. Health. See Salus. What the mattock (vanga) is, 304. Vanity. What those ought to consider who do evil secretly and good publicly, 95. They are whitened sepulchres, 95. They sell a thing of infinite price for a paltry sum, 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 they are not to be seen, 96. If the appetite for pleasing men creeps in, all the labor of a good work is done in vain, 626. Vantilo, 1024. Vapincum (Gap), a city of Gaul, 1011. The bishop of Gap, Aregius, ibid. Varmaricarius, envoy of Brunhilda, 1219, 1220. And of Theoderic, 1221. See Bargoaldus. The estate of Varro (Varroniana massa), 537. Who are said to carry the vessels of the Lord, 13, 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 the sacred vessels to a Jew, 554. Laws and canons permit sacred vessels to be sold for the redemption of captives, 859, 886. Vectanus, a count, 985.
What the gilded bars of shittim wood and the rings to be inserted into the ark signify, 4. Why the bars are ordered to be overlaid with gold, ibid. Why they must always be in the rings, ibid. 'Vel' (or) has the force of the copulative 'and,' 702. Velia, formerly an episcopal city of Lucania, 605. Velletri, a city of Campania in Italy, 578. The see of Velletri was transferred by Saint Gregory to a safer place, 578, 579. The Church of Tres Tabernae is united to the Church of Velletri with all its rights and revenues, 614. See its heading. Velox, master of the soldiery, 570. The veil. Virgins formerly did not receive the veil immediately after making the vow of virginity, 692. The blessing of the veil belonged to the bishop, 693, 754. The veil was formerly solemnly given to virgins at the altar, 693.
The blessing of the veil for an abbess was more solemn than that of the other nuns, 692. The custom of veiling virgins is most ancient, 754. It is a sacrilege to lay aside the veiling, 754. Veils hung up 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 there be no venality in ordinations, 639, 660. See Simony. Venantius, bishop of Luni, 293, 296, 297, 660. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Venantius, bishop of Perugia, 1211. Venantius, bishop, 1238. Venantius, a patrician and former monk, 153. He was not chancellor, 522.
Gregory exhorts him to return more quickly to the monastic life, 523. Venantius took a wife, from whom he begot daughters Barbara and Antonina, 522, 1033. Gregory endeavors to recall him, when near death, to the monastic habit, 522. He offers to convene a council in which his case may be discussed, 524. Gregory despairs of his salvation unless he withdraws from his refuge and puts on the monk's habit, 523. How solicitous Gregory was for his salvation, 1119 and following. See the alphabetical index of the Letters. Venantius, a patrician of Palermo, 1183, 1208, 1228. Venantius, nephew of the patrician Opilio, 619. Poison drunk after the sign of the cross does no harm, 288. Saint Benedict heals one infected with poison, 257.
'Venerari' (to venerate) is sometimes taken passively by Gregory, 379, 380. Venerius, bishop of Cagliari, 1303. Whether the letter of Gregory to him that is circulated is genuine, 1304. Venerius, bishop of Vibo, 962. To him the visitation of the Church of Tauriana is entrusted, 1652. Pardon of the sins of thought is easy, 86. He rightly asks pardon of his fault who first releases the offenses committed against himself, 473. Easiness of pardon is pernicious, 637. What it means to come to the commonwealth, 766. Vennianus, 1039. The belly. By the name of the belly the mind is signified, 51. The belly is signified by the name of the chief of the cooks, 61. He who serves the belly is bound by the snares of vices, 62. What the wind signifies, 56. What it means for one observing the wind not to sow, ibid.
Which talkative persons are to be admonished, 54. The Word of God is partly written, partly handed down; both are equally to be venerated by the faithful, 515. In what way 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, 35, 313. What an idle word is, 53. Which bashful persons are to be admonished, 41. Truth. Nothing is easier for speaking than the truth, 47. It is a lesser transgression not to know the truth than not to abide in it once known, 301. Which double-dealing persons are to be admonished, 47, 48. The bishop of Besançon, Vitalis, 1288. The wardrobe (vestiarium) is taken either for the cupboard of garments or for the vestiary matter itself, 650. The wardrobe-keeper (vestiarius), who has charge of the wardrobe, ibid.
There is also a second in charge after the wardrobe-keeper, and a supreme prefect of the wardrobe, ibid. Footstep. To tarry at the footsteps of emperors, 1130. What the vestments of priests signify, 17, 511. Why little bells were inserted in the vestments of the priest, ibid. Veteranus, priest of the Church of Salona, 1065, 1223. Those who hold to the narrow way in the peace of the Church are prepared for martyrdom, 340. The road traveled by the just, signified in a vision by a bridge, 432, 433, 436. Viaticum is used for the Eucharistic communion, 397, 733. For absolution, 397. The ancients called viaticum everything that availed toward a secure departure from this life, 733, 926. Viaticum is not to be denied to those doing penance when death is imminent, 1250. Viator, deacon of Catania, 900.
Viator, a former tribune, 1003. Vibo, formerly an episcopal city of the Bruttii, now a fortress of the province of Further Calabria, 825. 'Vicarius' (vicar) sometimes means the same as successor, 1095, 1300. Other meanings of this word, 1104, 1105, 1106. The pope was formerly accustomed to appoint his vicars, whether metropolitans or bishops, in the remote provinces outside Italy, 487. In Sicily he entrusts his office to a subdeacon, ibid. An image of great vicars, 565. Priests and bishops of the second order were so called, ibid. The vicariate of the Apostolic See is sometimes granted to a place, not to a person; sometimes to a person, not to a place, 573. What vicariate was formerly given here to the bishop of Arles, 781.
Gregory entrusts his office in the Gauls to Virgilius of Arles, 781. What his power was, 783. Alone he defined nothing except in lighter causes, 784. How he ought to conduct himself in causes of faith or greater affairs, ibid. Vicars, or those holding the place of another, were formerly called senators, 593, 594. The prefect 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. The vicedominus. Various were the offices of the vicedominus, 498. Their dignity, ibid. The vicedominus is today called the major-domo, ibid. The vicedomini were sometimes distinguished from the stewards (oeconomi), ibid. What their charge was, 498, 832. The vicedominus is to be instructed by the bishop, 1172. Or by the whole clergy, if the bishop neglects it, ibid.