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See also:INTERDICT (See also:Lat. interdictum, from interdicere, to forbid by See also:decree, lit., interpose by speech)
, in its full technical sense as an ecclesiastical See also:term, a See also:sentence by a competent ecclesiastical authority forbidding all celebration of public See also:worship, the See also:administration of some sacraments (See also:baptism, See also:confirmation and See also:penance are permitted) and ecclesiastical See also:burial
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From See also:general interdicts, however, are excepted the feast days of See also:Christmas, See also:Easter, See also:Whitsunday, the See also:Assumption and Corpus Christi
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An See also:interdict may be either See also:local, See also:personal or mixed, according as it applies to a locality, to a particular See also:person or class of persons, or to a particular locality as See also:long as it shall be the See also:residence of a particular person or class of persons
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Local interdicts again may be either general or particular; in the latter instance they refer only to particular buildings set apart for religious services
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An interdict is a measure which seeks to punish a See also:population or a religious See also:body (e.g. a See also:chapter) for the See also:fault of some only of its members, who cannot be reached separately
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It is a See also:penalty directed against society rather than against individuals
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In 869 See also:Hincmar of See also:Laon laid his entire See also:diocese under an interdict, a proceeding for which he was severely censured by Hincmar of See also:Reims
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In the See also:Chronicle of Ademar of See also:Limoges (ad See also:ann
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994) it is stated that See also:Bishop Alduin introduced there " a new See also:plan for punishing the wickedness of his See also:people; he ordered the churches and monasteries to cease from divine worship and the people to abstain from divine praise, and this he called See also:excommunication " (see See also:Gieseler, Kirchengesch. iii
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342, where also the See also:text is given of a proposal to a similar effect made by Odolric, See also:
So far as the interdict is " personal," that is to say, applied to a particular individual, it may be regarded as a See also:kind of partial excommunication; for instance, a bishop may, for certain faults, be interdicted from entering the See also: |
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