¹ In the treatise that was added to the letter of Pope John II, written in the year 534 to Caesarius concerning the case of a certain bishop of Riez, who was deposed from his episcopal office due to the stain of a committed crime, the following is recorded (cf. Ancient Councils of Gaul, ed. Sirmond, I, 235):

² “And this must be carefully observed: that if, as has been written above, those clerics who return to their own wives are completely suspended from office, and if even bigamists or the husbands of widows—who, of course, engage in something lawful—cannot be ordained as clerics, or, if they have been ordained, are deposed, then how much more does this principle apply? Regarding them, the holy Bishop Faustus also states in his letter: ‘He who still wishes to perform the office of a husband loses the grace of consecration.’”

³ Whether these words belong to a letter or rather to a certain sermon of Faustus is, to me, uncertain. Indeed, sermons are sometimes referred to as letters here and there, as is evident, among other things, from the prescription of the first sermon of Faustinus preserved in the Durlach Codex 36 (cf. p. 223, note on line 3)."