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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 372 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SYNOD  Of

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AGDE (Concilium Agathense).—With the permission of the West Goth Alaric II.
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thirty-five bishops of
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southern Gaul assembled in person or sent deputies to Agde on the 11th of September 5o6 . Caesarius, bishop of Axles, presided . The
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forty-seven genuine canons of the synod
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deal with discipline, church
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life, the alienation of ecclesiastical
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property and the treatment of Jews . While favouring sacerdotal celibacy the council laid rather rigid restrictions on monasticism . It commanded that the laity communicate at Christmas,
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Easter and Whitsuntide . The canons of Agde are based in
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part on earlier Gallic,
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African and
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Spanish. legislation; and some of them were re-enacted by later
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councils, and found their way into collections such as the Hispana, Pseudo-Isidore and Gratian . See Mansi viii . 319 ff . ; Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, 2nd edition, ii . 649 if . (
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English
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translation, iv . 76 ff.); Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, i .

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