In some manuscripts the letter is wrongly described as being to the bishops of the Council of Tolosa. For another opinion of Innocent I on the curiales who became clerics, see [1590].
Canons 2-3 and 55 of the Council of Elvira (for the datation issues see [28]) deal with Christians who performed the duties of pagan priests: those who made public sacrifices after their baptism must be barred from the Communion even on their deathbeds; those who did not sacrifice, but organised celebrations, would be allowed to take Communion on their deathbeds; and those who neither sacrificed nor paid for the cult of the pagan gods, but only wore crowns (presumably in processions; this is what "crowned" in our passage means), should be given the Communion after two years.