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The Dictionary of Christian Antiquities gives a complete account of the leading persons, institutions, art, social life, writings, and controversies of the Christian Church from the time of the Apostles to the age of Charlemagne. Ending with Charlemagne’s reign, which forms the important link between the ancient and the modern, the first eight centuries of the Christian era are covered up until...

The monk, who had broken his vow by marrying, was to be excommunicated, was to be compelled to separate from his wife, and might be forcibly reclaimed by his monastery: if a priest, he was to be degraded (Greg. M. Ep. i. 33, 40, vii. 9, xii. 20, ap. Grat. xxvii.; Qu. i. c. 15; Conc. Turon. II. c. 15). These severities were no part of Benedict’s comparatively mild and lenient code; but they testify to his having introduced a much stricter estimation of the monastic vow. At the same time, as with a
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