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Canon 5

Vt unaquaeque ciuitas pauperes et egenos incolas alimentis congruentibus pascat secundum uires; ut tam uicani presbyteri quam ciues omnes suum pauperem pascant. Quo fiet, ut ipsi pauperes per ciuitates alienas non uagentur.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 178)

Canon 5

That each city [i.e. a diocese] should feed its poor and needy inhabitants with suitable nourishment as much as they are able to. That both rural presbyters and all citizens should feed their poor. This should be safeguarded, however, that these poor do not wander to other cities [i.e. dioceses].

(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region

Gaul

City

Tours

About the source:

Title: The Second Council of Tours, Concilium Turonense II anno 567
Origin: Tours (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

This council, the second one held in the city of Tours, gathered under the auspices of Charibert I on 18 November 567, in the last year of his reign. The list of subscribers for that synod is quite short as it holds only eight signatures. Suprisingly, it lacks even the bishop of Tours himself, Eufronius, or any bishop from his metropolitan province. Most probably, the original list was substantially longer.

Edition:

C. de Clercq ed., Concilia Galliae a. 511-a. 695, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 148 A, Turnhout 1963.

Translation:

J. Gaudemet, B. Basdevant, Les canons des conciles mérovingiens VIe-VIIe siècles, Sources chrétiennes 353, Paris 1989.

Categories:

Functions within the Church - Parish presbyter

Functions within the Church - Rural presbyter

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Pastoral activity - Helping the poor and needy

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1461, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1461