A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

The Council of Toledo, held in the twelfth Year of the * 1.1 Reign of Reccaredus, the Five hundred ninety seventh of Jesus Christ, consisting of thirteen Bishops of Spain, It was National.

THIS Council made two Canons.

The first ordains, That Priests or Deacons who shall not observe Continence, shall be de∣graded from their Ministry, and shut up in a Cloyster by the Bishops Order, that their punishment may serve for an Example to others, and for Penance to themselves.

The second orders, That the Bishop cannot invade the Revenues of a Church or Chappel built in his Diocese, and that this Revenew shall be given to a Priest who shall serve in it, if the Revenew be sufficient for him; if not, that a Deacon shall be plac'd there; and if there be not enough to maintain a Deacon, that at least a Porter shall be plac'd there to keep the Church clean and decent, and to light up the Candles in it at Night before the Re∣liques.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Coun∣cil of To∣ledo 597,