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LX. De eo quod non liceat sacerdotibus vel clericis spectaculis interesse.

Non liceat sacerdotibus vel clericis aliqua spectacula in nuptiis vel in conviviis spectare, sed oportet antequam ingrediantur ipsa spectacula surgere et recedere inde.

(ed. Barlowe 1950: 138)

LX. That priests and clerics shall not attend spectacles.

It is not allowed to priests and clerics to watch any spectacles on weddings or feasts, but they shall leave before these spectacles begin and go away from this place.

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canon 54 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:

Entertainment - Feasting

Entertainment - Spectacles

Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς

Described by a title - Clericus

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1135, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1135