Letters232 Letter CCXXXII. To THE SAME BISHOPS. Against the Abbot of S. Theofred.
Letter CCXXXII. To THE SAME BISHOPS. Against the Abbot of S. Theofred.
If those things which you hear about the Abbot of S. Theofred are true, you cannot pass them over without danger to yourselves, both because of your office and your conscience. Conscience, I say, not only your own, but also of others. The things are likely, I believe them also to be true. For the bearer of this who also bears his testimony about these matters is trustworthy. You ask how I know all this? I hold a bundle of letters sent by holy men, - Viz., Alberic of Ostia, and Vmarus of Tusculum were Cluniacs; Stephen of Praeneste a Cistercian. a A Benedictine, in the Diocese of Pau.
whom I know to be both holy and truthful, and they all alike contain as loud-tongued praises of the bearer as they do dreadful accusations of the abbot.
Si vera sunt quae audistis de abbate Sancti Theofredi, non potestis ea dissimulare sine periculo vestro, et propter officium, et propter conscientiam. Conscientiam dico non tantum vestram, sed etiam aliorum. Sunt autem verisimilia, credo quod et vera. Verax est enim, qui testimonium perhibet de his, praesentium lator. Unde hoc quoque sciam quaeritis? Fascem teneo litterarum missarum a viris sanctis, quos ego novi quia sancti et veridici sunt · et omnes illae pariter continent tam laudes et praeconia hujus, quam illius horrendas blasphemias, quem accusat.