quid enim fidelibus solacii superest, quando clericalis non modo disciplina verum etiam memoria perit? equidem cum clericus quisque defungitur, si benedictione succidua non accipiat dignitatis heredem, in illa ecclesia sacerdotium moritur, non sacerdos.
What comfort is left to the faithful when not only the teaching of the clergy but even the memory of them perishes? If, when one of the clergy dies, he does not admit an heir to his office by handing on his benediction, then assuredly it is the priesthood that dies in that church, not the priest.
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