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LVIII. De praegustandis carnibus et non exsecrandis.

Si quis non pro abstinentiae disciplina, sed pro exsecratione escarum abstinet, placuit sancto concilio ut praegustet, et si sic vult abstineat. Si autem spernit ita ut olera cocta cum carnibus non degustet, iste non oboediens nec suspicionem haeresis a se removens deponatur de ordine clericatus.

(ed. Barlowe 1950: 138)

LVIII. On tasting the meat and not disdaining it.

If someone abstains from eating not because of the regimen of abstinence, but because of disdain for food, it pleased the holy council that he first taste it, and then he can abstain if he wants. If, however, he disdains food to such extent that he does not taste the legumes cooked with meat, he shall be deposed from the order of clergy because he is not obedient and has not removed from him a suspicion of heresy.

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canon 14 of the Council of Ancyra (AD 314).

Place of event:

Region

Iberian Peninsula

City

Braga

About the source:

Author: Martin of Braga
Title: Collectio orientalium canonum, seu Capitula Martini, Capitula Martini, Collection of the Eastern canons
Origin: Braga (Iberian Peninsula), Ancara (East)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

In the manuscript tradition the canons of the Second Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula) in AD 572 are followed by the Eastern canons collected and translated into Latin by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula). He was using a Greek collection, impossible to identify with any of the collections known today, which gathered the canons of the several Eastern councils. Martin quotes also the canons of the First Council of Toledo AD 400. Martin dedicated his work to Bishop Nitigisius of Lugo (Iberian Peninsula). Those two bishops met on the Second Council of Braga, and possibly the collection was composed for this occasion (Barlowe 1950: 84-87).

Edition:

C. Barlowe ed., Martini episcopi Bracarensis opera omnia, New Haven 1950.

Categories:

Food/Clothes/Housing - Food and drink

Described by a title - Clericus

Impediments or requisits for the office - Heresy/Schism

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Demotion

Devotion - Ascetic practice

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1133, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1133