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Canon 59 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids clerics to use incantations and produce amulets.
LIX. De eo quod non liceat sacerdotibus vel clericis incantaturas et contrarias ligaturas facere.
 
Non liceat clericis incantatores esse et ligaturas facere, quod est colligatio animarum. Si quis haec facit, de ecclesia proiciatur.
 
(ed. Barlowe 1950: 138)
LIX. That it is not allowed to priests and clerics to use incantations and make amulets averting [evil?].
 
It is not allowed to clerics to be enchanters or make amulets that enchain souls. If someone does them, he shall be expelled from the Church.
 
(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canon 36 of the Council of Laodicea (the end of the 4th c.).

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), Laodicea (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:

Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς
    Described by a title - Clericus
      Public law - Ecclesiastical
        Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
          Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema
            Ritual activity - Divination
              Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1134, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1134
              Record by: Marta Szada
              last edited: 2017-11-28 10:30:35
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