(While he was Archbishop of Capua) Since it was customary for canons and parish priests to send the Archbishop rather ostentatious gifts during the Christmas season, he eradicated this custom, prohibiting it both because it was a burden on the canons and parish priests and because the rich could give, with greater merit, to the poor the gifts they would have offered to the Archbishop, who had no need of them. He often meditated on and inculcated in others the saying of Isaiah: “Blessed is he who has fulfilled his duty.” (p. 69)

(Mentre era Arcivescovo a Capua) Poiché c'era un certo uso che i canonici e i parroci mandassero all'Arcivescovo, nelle feste natalizie, dei regali abbastanza vistosi, sradicò questa consuetudine proibendola, sia perché non pesasse sui canonici ed i parroci, sia perché i ricchi dessero, con più grande merito proprio, ai poveri i doni che avrebbero dovuto offrire all'Arcivescovo il quale non ne aveva bisogno. Meditava spesso ed inculcava agli altri il detto di Isaia: Beatus qui excuit manus ab omni munere.