Letter 1.12 to John, bishop of Orvieto (december 590)
Abbot Agapitus from the monastery of St. George in Orvieto asks Gregory the Great to intervene with Bishop John of Orvieto, who forbade the celebration of the mass and the burial of the dead in the monastery. Gregory orders Bishop John to grant to Abbot Agapitus the right to do both these things and warns him not to prohibit them in the future.
(ed. Norberg 1982; summarised by J. Szafranowski)