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March 5. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to Archbishop [Gilles] of Tyre, relating that he understood from the archbishop’s petition that he constructed with his own goods the hospital of Blessed Martin the Confessor in Acre (Acconensis), in which a multitude of sick, weak, and poor hear the divine offices via a papal indulgence. The pope wishes this indulgence to be widened, so he grants that these sick, weak, and poor can receive the ecclesiastical sacraments from the chaplain of the hospital, without prejudice to the parish priest, as long as they are not excommunicates, those under interdict by name, or public usurers.