How does braga perceive paganism?
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![You promised to renounce the Devil and his an- it harm you? Because you despise the Sign of
gels and all his evil works. And you confessed Cross and fear the sign you made for your-
you believed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, selves. Likewise you have abandoned the Holy
and hoped, at the end of the age, for the resur-
rection of the flesh and eternal life.
See what a bond and confession God holds
from you! And how can any of you, who has
renounced the Devil and his angels and his the Cross of Christ, turns to other signs, has
evil works, now return again to the worship losc the Sign of the Cross which he received
of the Devil? For to burn candles at stones and
trees and springs, and where three roads meet, tations invented by magicians and enchant-
what is it but the worship of the Devil? To
observe divinations and auguries and the days which he received in the Faith of Christ, and
of idols, what is it but worship of the Devil? has trampled underfoor the Faith of Christ,
To observe the "days" of Vulcan [August 23] for one cannot worship God and the Devil
and the first days of each month, to adorn ta-
bles and hang up laurels, to watch the foot,
and to pour out fruit and wine over a log in edge that all the things we have said are true,
the hearth, and to put bread in a spring, what if a man knows he has done these things after
is it but the worship of the Devil? For women Baptism, and has broken the Faith of Christ,
to invoke Minerva in their weaving, to keep let him not despair of himself, nor say in his
weddings for the "day" of Venus (Friday), and heart, "Since I have done such great evil after
to consider which day one should set out on
a journey, what is it but the worship of the
Devil? To mutter spells over herbs and invoke make such a pact in your heart with God that,
the names of demons in incantations, what is from no onward, you will no longer worship
it but the worship of the Devil? And many
other things which it takes too long to say,
And you do all these things after renounc-
ing the Devil, after Baptism, and, returning
to the worship of demons and to their evil
works, you have betrayed your Faith and bro-
ken the pact you made with God You have
abandoned the Sign of the Cross you received
in Baptism, and you give heed to signs of the
Devil by little birds and sneezing and many
other things. Why does no augury harm me
or any other upright Christian? Because,
where the Sign of the Cross has gone before, asks for pardon for his past Isins and bewares
the sign of the Devil is nothing. Why does
Incantation, that is che Creed you received in
Baptism, and the Lord's Prayer, and you cling
to diabolical incantations and chants. Who-
ever, therefore, having despised the Sign of
in Baptism. So, too, he who has other incan-
ers, has lost the Creed and the Lord's Prayer,
at once.
If, therefore, beloved sons, you acknowl-
Baptism, perhaps God will not forgive me my
sins" Do no doubt the mercy of God. Only
demons, nor adore anything except the God
of Heaven, nor commit murder, nor adultery
nor fornication, nor steal nor perjure yourself.
And when you have promised this to God of
your whole heart, and, further, have ceased to
commit these sins, trust in God's pardon, for
thus says the Lord by the prophet: "In what-
ever day the unjust shall forget his iniquities
and do justice, I also will forget all his iniq-
uities (Ezek. 18.21) God, therefore, waits for
repentance. But that repentance is true when
a man no longer does the evil he did but both
Excerpted from Christianity and Paganism, 350-730 The
Comersion of Western Eurepe, ed J.N. Hillgarth, pp. 62-63
Copyright 1986 by the University of Pennsylvania
Press, Reprineed with permission of the Umversity of
Pennsylvania Press
lest he return again to them in the future, and.
on the other hand, practices good, both provid-
ing alms for the hungry poor, refreshing the
tired guest, and, whatever he does not wish an-
other should do to him, not doing
for in this word the commandments of God are
ful6lled.
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Transcribed Image Text:You promised to renounce the Devil and his an- it harm you? Because you despise the Sign of
gels and all his evil works. And you confessed Cross and fear the sign you made for your-
you believed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, selves. Likewise you have abandoned the Holy
and hoped, at the end of the age, for the resur-
rection of the flesh and eternal life.
See what a bond and confession God holds
from you! And how can any of you, who has
renounced the Devil and his angels and his the Cross of Christ, turns to other signs, has
evil works, now return again to the worship losc the Sign of the Cross which he received
of the Devil? For to burn candles at stones and
trees and springs, and where three roads meet, tations invented by magicians and enchant-
what is it but the worship of the Devil? To
observe divinations and auguries and the days which he received in the Faith of Christ, and
of idols, what is it but worship of the Devil? has trampled underfoor the Faith of Christ,
To observe the "days" of Vulcan [August 23] for one cannot worship God and the Devil
and the first days of each month, to adorn ta-
bles and hang up laurels, to watch the foot,
and to pour out fruit and wine over a log in edge that all the things we have said are true,
the hearth, and to put bread in a spring, what if a man knows he has done these things after
is it but the worship of the Devil? For women Baptism, and has broken the Faith of Christ,
to invoke Minerva in their weaving, to keep let him not despair of himself, nor say in his
weddings for the "day" of Venus (Friday), and heart, "Since I have done such great evil after
to consider which day one should set out on
a journey, what is it but the worship of the
Devil? To mutter spells over herbs and invoke make such a pact in your heart with God that,
the names of demons in incantations, what is from no onward, you will no longer worship
it but the worship of the Devil? And many
other things which it takes too long to say,
And you do all these things after renounc-
ing the Devil, after Baptism, and, returning
to the worship of demons and to their evil
works, you have betrayed your Faith and bro-
ken the pact you made with God You have
abandoned the Sign of the Cross you received
in Baptism, and you give heed to signs of the
Devil by little birds and sneezing and many
other things. Why does no augury harm me
or any other upright Christian? Because,
where the Sign of the Cross has gone before, asks for pardon for his past Isins and bewares
the sign of the Devil is nothing. Why does
Incantation, that is che Creed you received in
Baptism, and the Lord's Prayer, and you cling
to diabolical incantations and chants. Who-
ever, therefore, having despised the Sign of
in Baptism. So, too, he who has other incan-
ers, has lost the Creed and the Lord's Prayer,
at once.
If, therefore, beloved sons, you acknowl-
Baptism, perhaps God will not forgive me my
sins" Do no doubt the mercy of God. Only
demons, nor adore anything except the God
of Heaven, nor commit murder, nor adultery
nor fornication, nor steal nor perjure yourself.
And when you have promised this to God of
your whole heart, and, further, have ceased to
commit these sins, trust in God's pardon, for
thus says the Lord by the prophet: "In what-
ever day the unjust shall forget his iniquities
and do justice, I also will forget all his iniq-
uities (Ezek. 18.21) God, therefore, waits for
repentance. But that repentance is true when
a man no longer does the evil he did but both
Excerpted from Christianity and Paganism, 350-730 The
Comersion of Western Eurepe, ed J.N. Hillgarth, pp. 62-63
Copyright 1986 by the University of Pennsylvania
Press, Reprineed with permission of the Umversity of
Pennsylvania Press
lest he return again to them in the future, and.
on the other hand, practices good, both provid-
ing alms for the hungry poor, refreshing the
tired guest, and, whatever he does not wish an-
other should do to him, not doing
for in this word the commandments of God are
ful6lled.
to another,
Transcribed Image Text:Martin of Braga
THE PERSISTENCE OF PAGANISM
IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
The persistence of paganism in the countryside remained an ongoing and serious
problem for the clergy. Bishop Martin of Braga (c. 520-580), in On the Castigation
of Rustics, a letter to another bishop in Spain that he expected to be delivered
as a sermon to peasants, denounced Christian converts for retaining craditional
religious beliefs, practices, and cults despite the pact they had made with God
in baptism. In particular, he railed against the peasants" worship of sacred crees
and stones and their attempt to divine the future through magic. Following is an
excerpt from On the Castigation of Rustics.
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