Letter 4.9 to Bishop Januarius of Cagliari (September 593)
Gregorius to Januarius, bishop of Cagliari
Gregory demands from Bishop Januarius to take greater care of nunneries located on the island of Sardinia. Januarius should assign some of his subordinates to attend to nuns' daily needs, so that they would not be compelled to leave their convents.
But the man [i.e. Januarius' delegate] who is found in some wicked act with women of this sort [i.e. nuns], must be deprived of communion, if he is a layman. If he is a cleric, he must also be removed from his office and be confined to a monastery, to bewail his failures in self-control for evermore.
Gregory discusses some other matters.
Bishops must not presume to anoint the foreheads of baptized infants for a second time with the chrism. Rather, presbyters should anoint those in need of baptism on the breast, so that bishops might anoint them in the future on the forehead.
(trans. Martyn 2004: 293–294, summarized by J. Szafranowski)