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Code of Canons of the African Church (Carthage, 419)

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45. Canon 45

Canon XLV. (Greek xlviii.)

Concerning those who are sick and cannot answer for themselves.

That the sick are to be baptized who cannot answer for themselves if their [servants] shall have spoken at their own proper peril a testimony of the good will [of the sick man].

(Greek Canon xlix.)

Concerning players who are doing penance and are converted to the Lord.¹

That to players and actors and other persons of that kind, as also to apostates when they are converted² and return to God, grace or reconciliation is not to be denied.

Notes · Ancient Epitome of Canon XLV

That he who cannot answer for himself on account of illness is to be baptized when he shall have given evidence of his desire.

A repentant actor is to be received to penance.

Notes

Found only in the Greek.
In the Greek “doing penance.”