Title — Decretals of Gregory IX
Title XXIX: On Clerics Journeying
Sole Chapter
Latin source headnote: Nothing is to be altered against one making pilgrimage or setting out for the Apostolic See.
Celestine III, to the Bishop of Amiens.
From the complaint of I., a priest, we understood that, after he entered upon the journey of coming to us, certain persons presumed to plunder his things. Although however the same priest did not place his things and those of his church under our protection when he approached us, nevertheless, because he ought not on that account to have been despoiled of his things, since those who approach our presence ought to be secure under apostolic protection together with their things, we command your fraternity that you cause whatever was taken away or removed from that priest after he entered upon the journey of coming to us to be restored to him without delay, with every appeal removed.
De clericis peregrinantibus.
Contra peregrinantem seu proficiscentem ad sedem apostolicam non est aliquid innovandum.
Coelestinus III. Ambianensi Episcopo.
Conquerente I. presbytero intelleximus, +quod, postquam ad nos veniendi iter arripuit, quidam res eius diripere praesumpserunt. Licet autem presbyter idem res suas et ecclesiae suae in protectione nostra non posuerit, quando ad nos accessit, quia tamen propter hoc non debuit rebus suis spoliari, quum hi, qui accedunt ad praesentiam nostram, cum rebus eorum debeant esse sub apostolica protectione securi, fraternitati tuae mandamus, quatenus, quicquid eidem presbytero post iter arreptum ad nos veniendi subtractum est vel ablatum, sibi omni appellatione remota restitui faciatis incunctanter.