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The Council of Tours orders preaching in the rustic Roman tongue and in German, because the people no longer understand the Latin.
In plain words
The Council of Tours orders sermons in the common Roman tongue and in German, because the people no longer understand Latin: the church's own filed confession. Its people could not follow the language the word was kept in, and it kept the word there for seven hundred more years, until the Reformation.
The mechanism
THE INSTITUTION'S OWN FILED CONFESSION — the custodian states in writing that the laity can no longer follow the language the Word is held in, and then holds it there for seven hundred more years, until the Reformation
How it was checked
- EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE CAPTURE 313 to 1302
- SourcesPRIMARY DOCUMENT — canon 17 of the council