Canon 63 Forged martyrologies are to be burned

Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Τρούλλῳ Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Πενθέκτης Συνόδου

The Council in Trullo · Constantinople, 691 to 692 · convened by the emperor Justinian II · The Quinisext Council (Trullo, 692) on the map

The martyrologies falsely fabricated by the enemies of the truth, so that they might dishonour the martyrs of Christ and lead the hearers to unbelief, we command not to be made public in churches, but to be given over to fire. And those who accept them, or give heed to them as true, we anathematise.

Τὰ ψευδῶς ὑπὸ τῶν τῆς ἀληθείας ἐχθρῶν συμπλασθέντα μαρτυρολόγια, ὡς ἂν τοὺς τοῦ Χριστοῦ μάρτυρας ἀτιμάζοιεν, καὶ πρὸς ἀπιστίαν ἐνάγοιεν τοὺς ἀκούοντας, μὴ ἐπ᾿ ἐκκλησίαις δημοσιεύεσθαι προστάσσομεν, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα πυρὶ παραδίδοσθαι. Τοὺς δὲ ταῦτα παραδεχομένους, ἢ ὡς ἀληθέσι τούτοις προσέχοντας, ἀναθεματίζομεν.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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