Canon 73 No figure of the cross on the floor

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

Since the life-giving Cross has shown us salvation, we must use all diligence to render due honour to that through which we have been saved from the ancient fall. Wherefore, rendering veneration to it in mind and word and sense, we command that the figures of the cross which some make on the floor be by all means effaced, so that the trophy of our victory be not insulted by the trampling of those who walk. Those therefore who from now on make a figure of the cross upon the floor we decree to be excommunicated.

Τοῦ ζωοποιοῦ σταυροῦ δείξαντος ἡμῖν τὸ σωτήριον, πᾶσαν σπουδὴν ἡμᾶς τιθέναι χρή, τοῦ τιμὴν τὴν ἀξίαν ἀποδιδόναι τῷ δι᾿ οὗ σεσώσμεθα τοῦ παλαιοῦ πτώματος. Ὅθεν καὶ νῷ καὶ λόγῳ, καὶ αἰσθήσει, τὴν προσκύνησιν αὐτῷ ἀπονέμοντες, τοὺς ἐν τῷ ἐδάφει τοῦ σταυροῦ τύπους ὑπό τινων κατασκευαζομένους, ἐξαφανίζεσθαι παντοίως προστάσσομεν, ὡς ἂν μὴ τῇ τῶν βαδιζόντων καταπατήσει τὸ τῆς νίκης ἡμῖν τρόπαιον ἐξυβρίζοιτο. Τοὺς οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν τοῦ σταυροῦ τύπον ἐπὶ ἐδάφους κατασκευάζοντας, ὁρίζομεν ἀφορίζεσθαι.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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