Canon 6 of a council held at an unknown place in Gaul shortly after 614 decrees that in the monastery no one can be baptized, no mass can be said for a dead layman, and no layman can be buried without the local bishop`s permission.
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Canon 6
Vt intra septa monastyrii (no)n baptizetur nec missae defunc(tor)um saecularium in monastyrio (celebr)entur nec saecularium cor(pora) (ib)idem sepeliantur, forsitan (per)miso ponteficis.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 287)
Canon 6
That in the confines of the monastery no one should be baptized, nor masses for dead laymen be celebrated, nor bodies of laymen be buried there, unless with the permission of the pontiff.
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Place of event:
Region
Gaul
About the source:
Title: Council held at unknown place after 614, Concilium incerti loci post anno 614 Origin: Gaul Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The acts of this council survived only in the codex Berolinensis Phillippis 1743, s. VIII, f. 300v. They are not titled. The only clue to their origin is the fact that they refer to the decrees of the Fifth Council of Paris (Gaul, AD 614), see, for example, [1595]. The text is in some places severely damaged.
Edition:
C. de Clercq ed., Concilia Galliae a. 511-a. 695, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 148 A, Turnhout 1963.
Categories:
Functions within the Church - Monastic presbyter
Monastic or common life - Cenobitic monk
Ritual activity - Baptism and instructing catechumens
Ritual activity - Eucharist
Ritual activity - Burying the dead
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Relation with - Noble
Ritual activity - Praying for the dead
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER2152, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2152
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