Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 540
Canon 5 of the Seventh Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 646) regulates the issues concerning recluses and vagabond monks and orders clerics to hand vagabonds over to monasteries.
Canon 5
 
De reclusis honestis siue uagis.
 
Only those who are of good morals can lead the life of a recluse in their own cells. Others shall be brought back to the monasteries and submitted to monastic rules. Only a monk who has been in a monastery can become a recluse.
 
Illos autem quos tantum extrema uesania occuparit ut incertis locis uagis atque morum deprauationibus inhonesti ullam prorsus nec stabilitatem sedis nec honestatem mentis habere exstiterint cogniti, quicumque ex sacerdotibus uel ministris uagantes reppererint, aut si fas est in propriis locis coenobio suis rectoribus, eos reformet, aut si difficile est, pro sola honestate uitae uigori suae potestatis erudiendos inclinet.
 
(eds. Martínez Díez, Rodríguez 1992: 352-355)
Canon 5
 
On honest recluses and vagabond monks
 
Only those who are of good morals can lead the life of a recluse in their own cells. Others shall be brought back to the monasteries and submitted to monastic rules. Only a monk who has been in a monastery can become a recluse.
 
If a priest or a minister finds vagabonds who are seized by such madness that they live shamefully in various places distorting good morals and not knowing the stability of residence nor honesty of mind, he shall send them to the leaders of the monstery in their own places, if it is possible; if it is diffcult, he shall incline them with the power of his own authority to be instructed in the honest way of life.
 
(trans. M. Szada)

Place of event:

Region
  • Iberian Peninsula
City
  • Toledo

About the source:

Title: Seventh Council of Toledo, Concilium Toletanum septimum a. 646, Concilium VII Toletanum, Concilium Toletanum VII
Origin: Toledo (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Seventh Council of Toledo assembled in October AD 646 during the reign of king Chindaswinth (642-653) and was attended by thirty bishops.
Edition:
G. Martínez Díez, F. Rodríguez eds., La colección canónica Hispana, Monumenta Hispaniae sacra. Serie canónica 5, Madrid 1992.

Categories:

Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς
    Relation with - Monk/Nun
      Described by a title - Minister/λειτουργός/ὑπηρέτης
        Ecclesiastical administration
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER540, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=540