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LXX. De eo quod non liceat clericis vel laicis catholicis ab haereticis eulogias accipere aut cum ipsis vel schismaticis orare.

Non liceat clericis vel laicis catholicis ab haereticis eulogias accipere, quia maledictiones sunt magis quam benedictiones, neque liceat aut cum haereticis aut cum schismaticis orare.

(ed. Barlowe 1950: 140)

LXX. That it is not allowed to Catholic clerics and laymen to receive eulogies from heretics, and to pray with them or with schismatics.

It is not allowed to Catholic clerics and laymen to receive eulogies from heretics, because these are rather maledictions than benedictions, and it is also not allowed to pray with heretics and schismatics.

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canons 32 and 33 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 - Clericus

Relation with - Heretic/Schismatic

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1149, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1149