document — Palmieri, On Christian Marriage
From the Council of Douzy, A.D. 874
¶1539.
The doctrine of Gregory, as to the prohibited degrees, is proposed in his same epistle to Felix, above, and these words are attributed to him.
¶1540.
We decree that each one of those who, faithfully instructed and already planted with a firm root, stand unshaken, observe his own progeny up to the seventh generation, and, as long as they know themselves to be near by affinity, not approach the society of this coupling.
¶1541.
Cf. what was noted at the Decree of Gregory III, A.D. 731.