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An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

Note 130 — V. ENFORCEMENT OF CELIBACY.

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The observance of the rule and its effects are well illustrated in the story of Urbicus, Bishop of Clermont, and his unhappy wife, as naïvely related by Gregory of Tours (Hist. Franc. L. I. c. 44).

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