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Canon 2

Vt nullus episcopus, presbyter, diaconus, clericus uel quicumque secularis in monastiriis puellarum nisi probatae uitae et aetatis prouectae praeter utelitatem aut quamcumque reparationem monastirii ad quascumque earum necessitates habitare aut secretas conlocutiones habere praesumant nec extra salutaturium aut oraturium ulterius ingredi permittantur. Praecipue Iudaei non pro quorumcumque negutiorum occationes puellis intra monastirium Deo decatis aliquid secretius conloqui aut familiaritatem uel moras ibi habere praesumant.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 223-224)

Canon 2

That no bishop, presbyter, deacon, cleric, or layman of whatever status should dare to live in the monasteries of virgins to address whatever kind of their needs or to have secret conversations [with them], or be permitted to enter [the monastery] further than the visiting chamber (salutaturium, i.e. salutatorium) or oratory, unless they are of proven life and advanced age, [and] except the cases when it is for the benefit or renovation of the monastery. Jews in particular should not dare to speak in secret with virgins dedicated to God in the monastery on occasion of whatever kind of business or have familiar relations [with them] or stay there.

(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region

Gaul

City

Mâcon

About the source:

Title: First Council of Mâcon, Concilium Matisconense I anno 581/583
Origin: Mâcon (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The First Council of Mâcon was called by King Guntram and gathered bishops from his entire realm: the metropolitans of Lyon, Vienne, Sens, Bourges, and Besançon, and sixteen other bishops. The exact dating of this synod is unsure as the acts give us both the date of 1st November of the twenty-second year of King Guntram`s rule (i.e. 583) and that of the fifteen indiction (i.e. 581).

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 - Monastic presbyter

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Relation with - Monk/Nun

Relation with - Woman

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1530, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1530