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Canon 15

Et ut nullus Christianus Iudaeorum conuiuiis particepare praesumat. Quod si facere quicumque, quod nefas est dici, clericus aut saecularis praesumpserit, ab omnium Christianorum consortio se nouerit cohercendum, quiquis eorum inpietatibus fuerit inquinatus.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 226)

Canon 15

That no Christian should dare to participate in the feasts of the Jews. If someone, a cleric or a layman, were to do so, which is horrible to say, he should know that he is deprived of communion with all the Christians, as he has been polluted by their impiety.

(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:

Entertainment - Feasting

Described by a title - Clericus

Relation with - Jew

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1538, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1538