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document — Palmieri, On Christian Marriage

From the Council of Angers, A.D. 453

¶1074.

Canon VI. Those who misuse the name of marriage with the wives of others (that is, dismissed by their husbands), while their husbands are surviving, are to be held strangers from communion.

The Power of the Church Over Matrimony

¶1075.

By these words there is also comprehended the case in which the woman has been dismissed because of adultery.

AdulteryThe Power of the Church Over Matrimony