Title — Liber Sextus
Title XXI: On the Consecration of a Church or Altar
Chapter I
When a church is polluted, a cemetery contiguous to it is polluted, but not a remote one. Pollution of a cemetery does not pollute the church, although it is contiguous. When one cemetery is polluted, another contiguous to it is not polluted, although entrance from one to the other is provided through a gate. This states the point. Dominicus.
Boniface VIII.
If it happens that a church is polluted by the shedding of blood or semen, its cemetery, if contiguous to it, is regarded as polluted. Hence no one ought to be buried in it before it has been reconciled; it is otherwise if it is remote from the church. Nor in the converse case do we judge that, when a cemetery is polluted, a church ought to be regarded as polluted although it is contiguous to it, lest the less worthy appear to draw the greater, or the accessory the principal, to itself. Those that, although adjoining one another, are nevertheless separated by an intervening wall are known to be not one but several cemeteries. Therefore, if one of them is violated, the other will not on that account be regarded as violated, although access is had from one to the other through an intervening gate.
DE CONSECRATIONE ECCLESIAE VEL ALTARIS.
Polluta ecclesia pollutum est coemeterium illi contiguum, sed non remotum. Pollutio coemeterii ecclesiam non polluit, licet contigua exsistat. Polluto uno coemeterio aliud illi contiguum pollutum non est, licet per portam de uno in aliud detur ingressus. Hoc dicit. Dominicus.
Bonifacius VIII.
Si ecclesiam pollui sanguinis aut seminis effusione contingat: ipsius coemeterium, si contiguum sit eidem, censetur esse pollutum. Unde, antequam reconciliatum fuerit, non debet in eo aliquis sepeliri; secus, si remotum fuerit ab eadem. Non sic quoque in casu converso sentimus, ut videlicet polluto coemeterio, quamvis ecclesiae contiguo, debeat ecclesia reputari polluta, ne minus dignum maius, aut accessorium principale ad se trahere videatur. Non unum, sed plura coemeteria esse noscuntur, quae, quamvis sibi cohaerentia, pariete tamen medio seiunguntur . Ideoque, violato eorum altero, alterum, licet de uno ad «aliud per portam intermediam habeatur accessus, non propter hoc reputabitur violatum.