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Canon 6 of the First Council of Narbonne (Gaul, AD 589) decrees that the abbots should not give any special treatment to the clerics and noblemen sent to the monastery to do penance.
Canon 6
 
Secundum concilia priscorum orthodoxorum decrebit fraternitas, ut quicumque fuerit culpauilis inuentus clericus aut honoratus de ciuitate, et ad monasterium fuerit deputatus, sic abba qui est predictus cum illo qui dirigitur agat, sicut ab episcopo manifesta correctione fuerit ordinatus. Aliter si abba facere elegerit, pro correctionem tempus aliquod suspendatur; quia ob ac causa dirigitur, ut emendet, non ut passim ferculis diuersis saturetur.
 
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 255)
Canon 6
 
In accord with the former orthodox councils, the synod (fraternitas) decrees, that [when] whatever cleric or nobleman (honoratus) from the city that has been found guilty is sent to the monastery, the abbot shoud treat the one just mentioned as a person who is being corrected, just as he was ordered by the bishop [to do so], until [the time that] the correction is clearly visible. If the abbot chooses to do otherwise, he should be suspended for some time; because [the culprit was sent to the monastery] for this one reason: to be emended, and not to constantly satisfy himself with various dishes.
 
(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region
  • Gaul
City
  • Narbonne

About the source:

Title: First Council of Narbonne, Concilium Narbonense I anno 589
Origin: Narbonne (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The First Council of Narbonne was called by Migetius, metropolitan bishop of Narbonne, and gathered six other bishops from his province. This synod was held on the 1st of November as the Third Council of Toledo (convened in May of the same year) has suggested that the provincial councils of the Visigothic kingdom should gather on that date. Migetius was indeed present at Toledo along with King Reccared who had recently converted to Catholicism.
Edition:
C. de Clercq ed., Concilia Galliae a. 511-a. 695, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 148 A, Turnhout 1963.

Categories:

Food/Clothes/Housing - Food and drink
    Described by a title - Clericus
      Attributes of clerical status
        Public law - Ecclesiastical
          Economic status and activity - Indication of wealth
            Reverenced by
              Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
                Administration of justice - Exile
                  Monastic or common life
                    Administration of justice - Imprisonment
                      Administration of justice - Penance
                        Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1556, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1556
                        Record by: Jerzy Szafranowski
                        last edited: 2019-09-03 22:06:10
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