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The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 88

Canon 88 No beasts brought into a church

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

Let no one bring any beast whatever inside a holy church, unless someone travelling, when the greatest necessity overtakes him, lacking a hut and a lodging, puts up in such a church. For if the beast is not brought inside, it will sometimes perish; and he, by the loss of his beast of burden, and by being thereby without means to set out on his journey, will be given over to the danger of death. For we are taught that the sabbath was made for man; so that the preservation and freedom from harm of man is in every way to be held preferable. But if anyone is caught bringing a beast into a holy place without necessity, as has been said, if he is a cleric, let him be deposed; if a layman, let him be excommunicated.

Μηδεὶς ἔνδον ἱεροῦ ναοῦ κτῆνος τὸ οἱονοῦν εἰσαγέτω· ἐκτὸς εἰμή τις ὁδοιπορῶν, μεγίστης καταλαβούσης ἀνάγκης, οἰκίσκου καὶ καταγωγῆς ἀπορῶν, ἐν τῷ τοιούτῳ καταλύσει ναῷ. Διὰ γὰρ τὸ μὴ τὸ κτῆνος ἔνδον εἰσενεχθῆναι, αὐτὸ μέν, ἔστιν ὅτε, διαφθαρήσεται· ὁ δέ, τῇ τοῦ ὑποζυγίου ἀποβολῇ, καὶ τῷ ἐντεῦθεν ἀπόρως ἔχειν τῆς ἐπὶ τὴν ὁδοιπορίαν ὁρμῆς, θανάτου κινδύνῳ παραδοθήσεται· τὸ γὰρ σάββατον διὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον γενέσθαι ἐκδιδασκόμεθα· ὥστε διὰ πάντων προτιμητέαν ἡγεῖσθαι τὴν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου σωτηρίαν τε καὶ ἀπάθειαν. Εἰ δέ τις φωραθείη χωρὶς ἀνάγκης, ὡς εἴρηται, κτῆνος εἰσάγων ἐν ἱερῷ, εἰ μὲν κληρικὸς εἴη, καθαιρείσθω· εἰ δὲ λαϊκός, ἀφοριζέσθω.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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