Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 1/Synod of Laodicea/Canons/Canon LII

Canon LII.

and birthday feasts are not to be celebrated in Lent.

Notes.

Marriage shall not be celebrated in Lent, nor birthdays.

By &#8220;birthday feasts&#8221; in this canon the natalitia martyrum is not to be understood as in the preceding canon, but the birthday feasts of princes.&#160; This, as well as the preceding rule, was renewed in the sixth century by Bishop Martin of Bracara, now Braga, in Portugal.