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Excerpt from A Catholic Dictionary: Containing Some Account of the Doctrine, Discipline, Rites, Ceremonies, Councils, and Religious Orders of the Catholic Church
Amvm'rxon or hereby. This is required in the canon law as a prelimi nary to baptism, or, when there is no question of that (as in the case of con verts from the Eastern Church), before the convert makes his confession of faith. There are decrees of several councils to this effect: thus the Council of Laodicea (about 364) ordains that Novatian and Photinian heretics, whether they be baptised persons or catechumens, shall not be received before they have anathe matised all heresies, especially that in which they were held.' A celebrated instance of abjuration is that of Clovis to whom St. Remy said before baptising him, Meekly bow down thy head, Sicambrian adore what thou hast burnt, and burn what thou hast adored. An early German council re uires the Saxon converts to renounce lief in Thor and \voden and Saxon Odin before being received into the Church.
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