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Canon 14

Vt Iudaeis a cena Domini usque prima pascha secundum edictum bonae recordationis domni Childeberti regis per plateas aut forum quasi insultationis causa deambulandi licentia denegetur et ut reuerentiam cunctis sacerdotibus Domini uel clerecis inpendant nec ante sacerdotes consessum nisi ordenati habere praesumant. Qui si facere fortasse praesumpserit, a iudicebus locorum, prout persona fuerit, distringatur.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 226)

Canon 14

That the Jews, in accord with the edict of our Lord King Childebert of good memory, are forbidden to walk [at the period] from Maundy Thursday (cena Domini) up to Easter Monday (prima pascha) through streets and forum as if to make some insults. And that [the Jews] should show all the reverence to the priests of the Lord or clerics and that they should not dare to sit in the presence of the priest unless ordered to do so. If by any chance one of them dares to do it, he should be detained by the judges of that place according to his status.

(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:

Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς

Described by a title - Clericus

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Reverenced by

Relation with - Jew

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1537, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1537