Canon VII.
No
stranger shall be received
without letters pacifical.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon
VII.
A traveller having no letter pacific with him is not to
be received.
Compare the Apostolic Canon number XXXIII.
For a discussion of the Letters styled
pacifici
,
see notes on next canon.
This canon is found in the
Corpus Juris Canonici
,
Gratian’s
Decretum
, Pars I., Dist. lxxi., c. ix. in
Isidore’s version. The Roman Correctors note that Dionysius
must have had a different reading from the Greek we know.