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. March 30. The Lateran. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarch of Antioch (Opizo Fieschi), relating that since he has ordered the patriarch to provide the church of Latakia with a worthy person, so that the person the patriarch chooses is not unbecomingly needy because the Saracens occupy the church, the pope grants the patriarch to power to concede to that person the abbey of St George of Antioch of the Order of St Augustine, which is now said to be vacant through the removal of Barthélemy, former abbot, as long as that person lives, unless the church of Latakia happens to be liberated from the hands of the infidels, in which case the church of St George shall be free and immune, notwithstanding that the pope once ordered the church of St George committed to the master of schools of Antioch. Nevertheless the pope wants the church of St George to remain free when the person appointed resigns or dies.