[565] Bernald. Constant. ann. 1091.
[566] Bernald. Constant. ann. 1089.
[567] A monkish chronicler professes to record of his own knowledge Guiberto’s death-bed remorse for the schism which he had been instrumental in causing. “Malens, ut ab ore ipsius didicimus, apostolici nomen nunquam suscepisse.”—Chron. Reg. S. Pantaleon. ann. 1100.
[568] Udalr. Babenb. Cod. Lib. II. c. 173.
[569] Eos qui in subdiaconatu uxoribus vacare voluerint, ab omni sacro ordine removemus, officio atque beneficio ecclesiæ carere decernimus. Quod si ab episcopo commoniti non se correxerint, principibus licentiam indulgemus ut eorum feminas mancipent servituti. Si vero episcopi consenserint eorum pravitatibus, ipsi officii interdictione mulctentur.—Synod. Melfit. ann. 1089, can. 12.
The second canon of the same council—“Sacrorum canonum instituta renovantes, præcipimus ut a tempore subdiaconatus nulli liceat carnale commercium exercere. Quod si deprehensus fuerit, ordinis sui periculum sustinebit”—shows how much more venial was the offence of promiscuous licentiousness than the heresy of marriage.
[570] Urbani II. Epist. 24.
[571] Gratian. Dist. XXVII. c. 8.
[572] Decret. Comit. Constant. c. 2 (Goldast. I. 246).
[573] Et quia hospes est, plus ecclesiæ prodest: non eum parentela exhauriet, non liberorum cura aggravabit, non cognatorum turba despoliet—Cosmæ Pragens. Chron. Lib. III. ann. 1098.—It should, however, be borne in mind that Bohemia had been Christianized in 871, by Cyrillus and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, and the national Slavonic worship, founded on the Greek faith, after many struggles, was not abolished until 1094 (see Krasinski’s Reformation in Poland, London, 1838, I. 13). The attachment of the race to their ancestral rites explains the proneness of the Bohemians and Poles to fall away into heresy.