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Canon 30

De filia episcopi vel presbyteri sive subdiaconi quae fuerit devota et peccaverit.

Episcopi sive presbyteri sive diaconi filia si devota fuerit et maritum duxerit, si eam pater vel mater in affectum receperint, a communione habeantur alieni. Pater vero causas in concilio se noverit praestaturum. Mulier vero non admittatur ad communionem, nisi marito defuncto egerit poenitentiam. Sin autem vivente eo secesserit et poenituerit vel petierit communionem, in ultimo vitae deficiens accipiat communionem.

(ed. Barlowe 1950: 132)

Canon 30

On a daughter of the bishop, presbyter or subdeacon that had been devoted [to God] but sinned

If a consecrated daughter of a bishop, or a presbyter, or a deacon married, and her father or mother accepted her because of love, they should be excommunicated, and let the father know that he shall give account of this things in the council. The woman shall not be admitted to the communion unless she does penance after the death of her husband; if, however, she left him during his life, did penance and asked for a communion, she should receive communion on the deathbed.

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canon 19 of the First Council of Toledo in AD 400 see [114].

Place of event:

Region

Iberian Peninsula

City

Braga

About the source:

Author: Martin of Braga
Title: Collectio orientalium canonum, seu Capitula Martini, Capitula Martini, Collection of the Eastern canons
Origin: Braga (Iberian Peninsula), Neocaesarea (East)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

In the manuscript tradition the canons of the Second Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula) in AD 572 are followed by the Eastern canons collected and translated into Latin by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula). He was using a Greek collection, impossible to identify with any of the collections known today, which gathered the canons of the several Eastern councils. Martin quotes also the canons of the First Council of Toledo AD 400. Martin dedicated his work to Bishop Nitigisius of Lugo (Iberian Peninsula). Those two bishops met on the Second Council of Braga, and possibly the collection was composed for this occasion (Barlowe 1950: 84-87).

Edition:

C. Barlowe ed., Martini episcopi Bracarensis opera omnia, New Haven 1950.

Categories:

Family life - Marriage

Family life - Offspring

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Ecclesiastical administration - Participation in councils and ecclesiastical courts

Relation with - Children

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema

Private law - Ecclesiastical

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1110, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1110