Cf. canon 15 of the council of Ancyra in AD 314. Martin of Braga significantly changes the tenor of the original Greek canon that speaks generally about the property of the Church. According to the Ancyran canon anything that has been alienated from the Church property while the bishop was not there, can be claimed. Whether the price shall be returned to the buyer depends on the discernement of the bishop as some things can generate revenues that exceed the original price (see Joannou 1962:66-67). Martin of Braga, however, narrows the sense of the canon so that it concerns only the liturgical vessels. As they do not generate any revenues, all the pecuniary considerations of the second part are useless so that Martin transforms them and gives them another meaning, although he retains some of the wording.