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Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian · St Theodota, Mother of Cosmas and Damian

Canon 57

On the possibility of ordination to the clergy of those baptized by Donatists at an unconscious age.
It was decided to ask our brothers and co-servants Siricius and Simplician only about the infants baptized by the Donatists, whether what they did not do of their own free will, the error of their parents, would not become an obstacle to their elevation to the service of the holy altar, when they turn to the Church of God with a saving disposition.
Greek original
Ἥρεσεν, ἵνα ἐρωτήσωμεν τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς καὶ συνιερεῖς ἡμῶν Σιρίκιον καὶ Σιμπλικιανόν, περὶ μόνων τῶν νηπίων τῶν παρὰ τοῖς Δονατισταῖς βαπτιζομένων, μήπως τοῦτο, ὅπερ οἰκείᾳ προθέσει οὐκ ἐποίησαν, τῇ τῶν γονέων πλάνῃ ἐμποδίσῃ αὐτοῖς πρὸς τὸ μὴ προκόπτειν εἰς ὑπουργίαν τοῦ ἁγίου θυσιαστηρίου, ὅταν πρὸς τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκκλησίαν σωτηριώδει προθέσει ἐπιστρέψωσι.[1]
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