The events mentioned in the passage probably describe the reaction against the government of Boniface, the faithful disciple of Gregory I, who therefore favoured monks. The sense of the "second Mass" is unclear. Duchesne hypothesises that it might be a second office of the evening, called erroneuosly "missa", as in Canon 30 of the council of Agde in AD 506 (Duchesne 1886: 316). The "roga" is also difficult to translate, but it must relate to some kind of a financial gift.