STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2338, sig. 109-11/140

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16th Canon cites twelve penalties, beginning with the lowest and ending with the most discerning. Here come into consideration the tenth, eleventh and twelfth. About twenty priests of the Order of the Benedictines and two, perhaps three, of the order of the Merciful Brothers /naeh the schematism of the Prague Archdiocese of the year 1940/ are attached /depositio, Cen. 2298, point l0/ Except for this number of priests were further punished with the permanent removal of the right to wear a spiritual garment twenty brothers of the Benedictines and 50 members of the Order of the Brothers of Mercy / according to the same scheme of the Prague Archdiocese It is necessary to exterminate that the Bisenhof with the constant withdrawal of the rights to wear the spiritual garment should punish a ordained clergyman, in whom no signs of improvement are shown, and who, despite the repeated exhortation, continues to give anger. /Can. 2304/. Eg is also here the most desirable punishment according to the kind of canonical punishment, for all must return in the lay place. This sentence is pronounced by the Bishop on account of a crime specifically described in the Reehte, or in the case of a deposed cleric punished with the right to carry the spiritual chaplain's, giving a whole year to him /cf. Can. 2305/. The head of the Emaus monastery, Abbas de regimine, Abba's monasterii sui juris /regulating abbot, abductor of a