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The Council of Epaone or Synod of Epaone was held in September 517 at Epaone (or Epao near the present Anneyron) in Burgundy, France. It was one of three national councils of bishops of the land that formed Gaul (modern France). The councils were: Agde (506) for Arian Visigothic Kingdom; Orléans (511), for the Kingdom of the Franks; Epaone (517), for that of the Burgundians. The synod enacted the first legislation against wooden altars, forbidding the building of any but stone altars.〔(Catholic Encyclopedia: ''History of the Christian Altar'' )〕 It also witnessed to the rise of the practice of mitigation of canonical penance in view of the changing times and social conditions of Christians.〔(Enrico dal Covolo: The Historical Origin of Indulgences )〕 ==Edicts passed== * Canon 26: Only stone pillars/altars to be consecrated with chrism (a mixture of oil and spices). quotes the canon as saying "''Altaria nisi lapedea crismatis unctione non sacrentur''". * Canon 15: Attendance at Jewish banquets prohibited. * Canon 16: 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. * Clergy forbidden to hunt. * Completely abrogated in the entire Kingdom the consecration of widows who are named Deaconesses.〔(Texts on Ordination of Women )〕 * Canon 29 reduced to two years the penance that apostates were to undergo on their return to the Church, but obliged them to fast one day in three during those two years, to come to church and take their place at the penitents' door, and to leave with the catechumens. Any who objected to the new arrangement were to observe the much longer ancient penance.〔(Charles Louis Richard, ''Bibliothèque sacrée'' (Méquignon, 1823) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Council of Epaone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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