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An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

Note 212 — VII. MONACHISM.

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De Bono Viduit. c. 10, 11.—It will be seen hereafter that in the twelfth century the church adopted as a rule of discipline the practices condemned by St. Augustin, and that in the sixteenth century the council of Trent elevated it into a point of faith.

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