Letter CLXVIII. To All the Bishops of Campania, Samnium and Picenum. (Rebuking them first for performing baptisms without due preparation or sufficient cause on ordinary saints'-days (Easter and Whitsuntide being the only recognized times), and secondly for requiring from penitents that a list of their offences should be read out publicly, a practice which is in many ways objectionable.) PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - EARLY CHURCH FATHERS INDEX
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