The Life of Our Most Holy Father St. Benedict 68Chapter XXVI.

Gregory the Great · London: Thomas Baker, 1898

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Of those who keep company with the excommunicated without the command of the Abbot.

I f any Brother shall presume, without the command of the Abbot, to join himself in any way to the excommunicated Brother, or to talk with him, or send him a message, let him incur the same penalty of excommunication.