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Canon 15

After a short quote from Seneca (Pseudo-Seneca, "De moribus liber") the canon states:

Nullus sacerdotum ac monachorum colligere alium in lecto suo praesumat.

Monks are also forbidden to live in pairs in cells. They should live all together in common dormitories.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 180–181)

Canon 15

After a short quote from Seneca (Pseudo-Seneca, "De moribus liber") the canon states:

No priest or monk should dare to bring someone else to his bed.

Monks are also forbidden to live in pairs in cells. They should live all together in common dormitories.

(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:

Sexual life - Sexual activity

Sexual life - Same sex

Food/Clothes/Housing - Type of housing

Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1469, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1469