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 | | In 650, the Council of iRouen reminded the faithful that Christ redeemed with his precious blood the slave as well as the freeman, that he chose his Apostles from the humblest ranks, and that the lofty in pride and station were hateful to God. |
 | | Until the conquest of Spain by the Saracens, the Councils were perpetually obliged to repeat the canons, and devise new modes of protecting themselves against the audacious attempts of their liberated slaves.5 While thus occasionally jealous of ecclesiastical rights, the Church showed itself equally vigilant in defending those of freedmen in general. |
 | | The turning point of the question seems to have heen at the Council of Seville in 590, when the mann- missions and donations of slaves to his kindred hy Gandentius, late Bishop of Ecija, were contested, and the case decided in favor of the Church. |
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