Council of Epaon

Council of Epaon

The Council of Epaon in Burgundy (517) enacted the first legislation against wooden altars, forbidding the building of any but stone Altars. [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01362a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: "History of the Christian Altar"] ]

The Council, in canon xvi, allowed baptized heretics to be admitted to the Church by a rite of unction (Presbyteros, . . . si conversionem subitam petant, chrismate subvenire permittimus). This was the practice also in the East, but in Rome and Italy admission was by laying on of hands. [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01362a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: "Abjuration"] ]

It also "abrogate(d) completely in the entire Kingdom the consecration of widows who are named Deaconesses." [ [http://www.ewtn.com/library/LITURGY/WOMORD.TXT Texts on Ordination of Women] ]

It is also one of the witnesses to the rise of the practice of mitigation of canonical penance that became necessary due to the changing times and social conditions of Christians: a more severe penance could be replaced with something new and milder. [http://www.catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?recnum=1054 Enrico dal Covolo: The Historical Origin of Indulgences] ]

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