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March 4. Naples. Pope Alexander IV writes to the abbot and the convent of the Virgin Mary of the Valley of Josaphat, pertaining directly to the Roman Church, of the Order of St Benedict, in the diocese of Jerusalem, relating that their petition shown to him claimed that their monastery was occupied by the Saracens on many occasions and several privileges that strengthened the monastery and the ecclesiastical ornaments and many other goods were thereby lost, the loss of the privileges causing much harm to the monastery. They asked the pope to renew these privileges lest the monastery be harmed by the loss of the originals, which the pope does, declaring that the new ones replace the originals in every way within and outside judicial proceedings.