for any one wishing to be married the third time, he shall be deprived of his office.
When a mother wishes her children to be baptized, and they are unable to fast, she shall fast for them.
If a husband leave his first wife and marry a second, or if the wife marry another, he shall not be admitted to the communion until he return into wedlock.
Let no one be sold to a strange faith.
Any one knowingly eating with the Romans must be purified by prayers of purification.
If a priest’s wife be taken by the infidels, she should be redeemed, and be taken again into wedlock, because she has suffered violence.
Merchants and foreigners going into Roman parts shall not be deprived of the communion, but shall be admitted after making atonement by certain prayers enjoined as a penance.
No women shall be invited to any feast held in a monastery.
Marriages may only be contracted publicly, in churches.
Here follow the questions of one Cyril to Niphon,
Bishop of Novogorod.[1]
What if a man after the communion vomit from a surfeit of meat and drink? Answer: He shall do penance by fasting forty days. If it be not from a surfeit, but from nausea, he shall fast twenty days. If from some other trifling cause, a shorter time. A priest doing such a thing, shall abstain
- ↑ Some of these being more interesting to the theologian than acceptable to the good taste of the general reader, the translator has thought proper to omit them, and to supply their place with asterisks.
