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About the possibility for a bishop to tonsure a girl into monasticism before the age of 25, in the case when her chastity is in danger, or when, being near death, she herself, or her parents or guardians, beg not to let her die without the monastic rite.
It was convenient: if any of the bishops, out of necessity, when the chastity of the virgin is in danger because there is an influential admirer, or someone arouses suspicion that he will kidnap her, or the virgin herself feels that she is struck by mortal danger, at the request of her parents or those in whose care she is entrusted, clothe or clothe the virgin in the monastic image before she is 25 years old, so that she does not die without the monastic image, then let this bishop The Council, which passed a resolution on such a number of years, will not harm in any way.
Greek original
Ὁμοίως ἤρεσεν, ἵνα, ὁστισδήποτε τῶν ἐπισκόπων, δι᾽ ἀνάγκην τῆς παρθενικῆς σωφροσύνης κινδυνευούσης, ὅτε, ἢ ἐραστὴς δυνατός, ἢ ἅρπαξ τίς ἐστιν ἐν ὑποψίᾳ, ἢ ἔτι μὴν ὑπό τινος θανατηφόρου κινδύνου αὕτη αἴσθηται νυχθεῖσα, παρακαλούντων ἢ τῶν γονέων αὐτῆς, ἢ ὧν τῇ φροντίδι ἀνάκειται, διὰ τὸ μὴ χωρὶς τοῦ σχήματος τελειωθῆναι, καλύψῃ παρθένον, ἢ ἐκάλυψεν, ἐντὸς κείρας ἐνιαυτῶν εἰκοσιπέντε, μηδὲν τὸν τοιοῦτον βλάψῃ ἡ περὶ τούτου τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τῶν ἐνιαυτῶν κατασταθεῖσα σύνοδος.[1]
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