From the Council of Pavia, A.D. 850

Canon IX. Fathers of families are to be admonished by presbyters that they provide nuptials for their daughters at a timely moment and forestall the heat of fervent age by the conjugal law ... At the end let them know this to have been prefixed by ecclesiastical sanctions: that no one doing public penance can contract marriage up to the time of completed penance.

Public penance impeded marriage; but this impediment is here restricted to the very time of penance.

Cf. what was said at Decree VI of Leo to Rusticus.

Canon X. But concerning abductors, following the statutes of the ancient Fathers, we judge that this is to be held: that if they abducted those who, together with the betrothed man, have been initiated by the priestly blessing, even though they have corrupted the same women, nevertheless they are to be drawn away from these men and restored to their proper betrothed men. But those who either are widows or have not yet been betrothed and are abducted without their own will and that of their parents, nevertheless are to be restored to their parents or relatives, and, if they wish, they may marry others; for they can by no means thereafter be legitimate wives to those by whom they were abducted. But although the ancient canons command that the abductors themselves and those furnishing help to them be anathematized, nevertheless we do not deny that, when they are placed at the last moment, if they devoutly ask, the viaticum of sacred communion is to be given for mercy.

Cf., as to the first part, Canon XI of the Council of Ancyra, above. As to the second, the canons of the Council of Meaux cited a little before and the things noted there. The Church did not approve the rigor of the Fathers of Pavia, since it permits marriage if the abducted woman, restored to liberty, consents spontaneously.

Canon XXIV. We decree that it is to be forbidden that hereafter an adult woman be joined to any boy of imperfect age; but when youths have come to suitable age, then they can be coupled in legitimate marriage.

Namely, the impediment of age is extended.