libri poenitentiales

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In canon law: Development of canon law in the West
…the clergy and monks used libri poenitentiales (“penitential books”), which contained detailed catalogs of misdeeds with appropriate penances. They were private writings without official authority and with very disparate content. From the monasteries founded in Europe by the Irish monk St. Columban and missionaries of Anglo-Saxon background, the libri poenitentiales…
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