Note 302 — Chapter V · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE.
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Procès, I. 298, 305, 319, 336, 372, 401, 405, 427, 436, etc.
It is not easy to understand the prescription of Friday fasting as a penance for a Templar, for the ascetic rules of the Order already required the most rigid fasting. Meat was only allowed three days in the week, and a second Lent was kept from the Sunday before Martinmas until Christmas (Règle, §§ 15, 57).