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To all the Bishops of Campania, Samnium and Picenum.

Letters and Sermons of St Leo the Great (including the Tome) · Saint Leo the Great

Letter CLXVIII.

LeoEp 2.162.1

To all the Bishops of Campania, Samnium and Picenum.

LeoEp 2.162.2

(Rebuking them first for performing baptisms without due preparation or sufficient cause on ordinary saints’-days (Easter and Whitsuntide being the only recognized times), and secondly for requiring from penitents that a list of their offences should be read out publicly, a practice which is in many ways objectionable.)

LeoEp 2.162.3