Правило 66 Василия Великого
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He who digs up coffins for theft, may not partake of the holy mysteries for ten years: let him cry for two, listen for three, fall down for four, stand with the faithful for one summer, and then let him be received.
It is called grave-digging when someone digs up the graves of the dead and steals from them everything precious that is placed there. Gregory of Nyssa also speaks about the same crime in his 7th rule, prescribing to the perpetrators, like the present rule of Basil the Great, a ten-year penance. Zonara, in the interpretation of this rule, says that the one who carries away the stones of the tombs is subject to the same punishment 105. However, the mentioned rule of Gregory of Nyssa speaks differently about this, as we will see below.
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