Chapter 13
31. The blessed Fulgentius wanted to learn more than to teach, and so he agreed to be where he could be inferior, and he was afraid of going where he might become a superior. Then the pain caused the abbot Felix and all the brothers left by Fulgentius to take counsel out of necessity and ask for the protection of the holy Bishop Faustus against the monks of the island [of Iunci]. With his episcopal authority, he immediately reclaimed Fulgentius to be his subject and confirmed that Fulgentius should live where he ordered him to. He threatened the disobedient with excommunication, and proclaimed that Fulgentius himself would be judged similarly to the disobedient if he did not agree. What is there to say? Fulgentius went back to his own monastery, feeling obliged to undertake the office of the abbot. Afraid of another change of mind in seeking spiritual perfection, the priest [Faustus] suddenly consecrated him presbyter, so that Fulgentius, decorated with the office of abbot and presbyter, could neither leave the monastery, nor be ordained in another Church.
(trans. S. Adamiak)