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. January 3. Lateran. Pope Innocent IV writes to Egidius,* former bishop of Damietta (Damiatensis), relating that since, as his petition to the pope made known, he is unable to carry out his duties in spiritual and temporal affairs in the church of Damietta (Damiatensis), as it is miserably occupied by the Saracens, the pope bends to his entreaties and accepts his resignation, which he sent to the Apostolic See through the nuncios of King [Louis IX] of France, absolves him of his ties to that church, while keeping the honour of his episcopal rank, and grants that he can accept licitly an ecclesiastical benefice if one is offered to him canonically, lest the authority of such honour be tainted.