Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 671
Canon 9 of the Eighth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 653) imposes punishments on those who do not observe a fast. Those who are sick or old can refrain from fasting only after they have been permitted to do so by a priest.
Canon 9
 
Excommunication is a punishment for those who eat meat during Lent.
 
[...] Illi uero quos aut aetas incuruat aut languor extenuat aut necessitas artat, non ante prohibita uiolare praesumant quam a sacerdote permissum accipiant.
 
(eds. Martínez Díez, Rodríguez 1992: 425-427)
Canon 9
 
Excommunication is a punishment for those who eat meat during Lent.
 
[...] Those who are stooped by age or enfeebled by sickness, or pressed by necessity will not dare to violate what is forbidden before they receive permission from a priest.
 
(trans. M. Szada)

Place of event:

Region
  • Iberian Peninsula
City
  • Toledo

About the source:

Title: Eighth Council of Toledo, Concilium Toletanum octavum a. 653, Concilium VIII Toletanum, Concilium Toletanum VIII
Origin: Toledo (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Eighth Council of Toledo assembled in December AD 653 at the very beginning of the sole reign of king Reccesvinth (653-672), shortly after the suppression of the revolt of Froia. It was attended by four metropolitan bishops (Toledo, Merida, Seville, and Braga) and forty-eight other bishops, as well as abbots, representatives of absent bishops, and many lay palatine office-holders (comites and duces). The representation of the latter seemed to be "more overt than on any previous occasion" (Collins 2004: 86). At the Eighth Council of Toledo, they confirmed the ecclesiastical regulations with their signatures for the first time. Collins (2004: 86-89) interpreted that generally the legislation of the council reflected a reaction against the previous reign - that of King Chindasvinth, and the excesses of royal power (see especially canon 2, which revoked Chindasvinth`s laws against traitors). For more details see also (Orlandis, Ramos-Lisson 1981: 201-214).
Edition:
G. Martínez Díez, F. Rodríguez eds., La colección canónica Hispana, Monumenta Hispaniae sacra. Serie canónica 5, Madrid 1992.
Bibliography:
R. Collins, Visigothic Spain, 409-711, Oxford, OX, UK; Malden, MA, USA 2004.
J. Orlandis, D. Ramos-Lissón, Die Synoden auf der Iberischen Halbinsel bis zum Einbruch des Islam (711), Paderborn 1981.

Categories:

Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς
    Public law - Ecclesiastical
      Equal prerogatives of presbyters and bishops
        Pastoral activity - Visiting the sick
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER671, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=671