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Canon 65 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids clerics to eat before the third hour and to omit prayer before and after the meal.
LXV. De eo quod non liceat clericos ante horam tertiam prandere, nec ad mensam accedere vel recedere sine hymno.
 
Non oportet clericos vel laicos religiosos ante sacram horam diei tertiam inire convivia, neque aliquando clericos nisi hymno dicto edere panem, et post cibos gratias auctori Deo referre.
 
(ed. Barlowe 1950: 139)
LXV. That it is not allowed to the clerics to break fast before the third hour nor to approach or leave the table without a hymn.
 
The clerics or lay religious persons shall not have a meal before the holy third hour of the day nor the clerics shall eat breat without saying a hymn, or omit saying grace after the meal.
 
(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

The origin of this canon is uncertain.

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), Agde (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
In the manuscript tradition the canons of the Second Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula) in 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 Frist Council of Toledo AD 400. Martin dedicated his work to Bishop Nitigisius of Lugo (Iberian Peninsula). Those two bishops met on the Second Council, 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:

Food/Clothes/Housing - Food and drink
    Described by a title - Clericus
      Devotion - Fasting
        Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1144, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1144
        Record by: Marta Szada
        last edited: 2017-12-07 12:45:16
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