Note 55 — CHAP. IX. Of the Beards of Priests.

Tertullian, in his book de Cultu feminarum, and in that de Pallio, speaks very advantageously of beards. This learned man, whom St. Cyprian called his master, was the first who wrote on the alteration of a canon of the council of Carthage, which forbade priests to shave their beards.