{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140467.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140467.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140467.htm","text":"No one may give the Eucharist to the bodies of the dead; for it is written \u201cTake and eat.\u201d But the bodies of the dead can neither \u201ctake\u201d nor \u201ceat.\u201d\nAncient Epitome of Canon LXXXIII.\nThe Sacraments must not be given to a dead body.\nThis is canon iv. of the Council of Hippo, in the year 393. (Vide Hefele, Vol. II., p. 397.) The earlier canon includes baptism also, in its prohibition. This is canons xviii. and xx. of the African code, according to the Greek numbering.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Ca...","type":"page"}