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SYNOD Of See also:

AGDE (Concilium Agathense).—With the permission of the See also:West Goth See also:Alaric II. See also:thirty-five bishops of See also:southern See also:Gaul assembled in See also:person or sent deputies to Agde on the 11th of See also:September 5o6. Caesarius, See also:bishop of Axles, presided. The See also:forty-seven genuine canons of the synod See also:deal with discipline, See also:church See also:life, the See also:alienation of ecclesiastical See also:property and the treatment of See also:Jews. While favouring sacerdotal See also:celibacy the See also:council laid rather rigid restrictions on See also:monasticism. It commanded that the laity communicate at See also:Christmas, See also:Easter and Whitsuntide. The canons of Agde are based in See also:part on earlier Gallic, See also:African and See also:Spanish. legislation; and some of them were re-enacted by later See also:councils, and found their way into collections such as the Hispana, Pseudo-Isidore and See also:Gratian. See Mansi viii. 319 ff. ; See also:Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, 2nd edition, ii. 649 if. (See also:English See also:translation, iv. 76 ff.); See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, i.

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