E03013: The Fourth Council of Toledo (central Spain) in 633 is held in the church of *Leocadia (martyr of Toledo, S01367), according to the Latin acts of the council.

Acts of the Fourth Council of Toledo

Gesta synodalia in Toletanam urbem apud concilium LXVI episcoporum Spaniae et Galliae provinciarum edita. Anno tertio regnante domno nostro gloriosissimo principe Sisenando, die nonas decembres, aera DCLXXI.

Dum studio amoris Christi ac diligentia religiosissimi Sisenandi regis Spaniae atque Galliae sacerdotes apud Toletanam urbem in nomine Domini conuenissimus ut eius imperiis atque iussis communis a nobis agitaretur de quibusdam ecclesiae disciplinis tractatus, primum gratias Saluatori nostro Deo omnipotenti egimus; post haec antefacto ministro eius excellentissimo et glorioso regi, cuius tanta erga Deum deuotio exstat ut non solum in rebus humanis sed etiam in causis diuinis sollicitus maneat. Hic quippe, dum in basilicam beatissimae et sanctae martyris Leocadiae omnium nostrum pariter iam coetus adesset, tali pro merito fidei suae cum magnificentissimis et nobilissimis uiris ingressus, primum coram sacerdotibus Dei humo prostratus cum lacrimis et gemitibus pro se interueniendum Domino postulauit, deinde religiosa prosecutione synodum exhortatus est, ut Paternorum decretorum memores et conseruanda in nobis iura ecclesiastica studium praeberemus, et illa corrigere quae, dum per neglegentiam in usum uenerunt, contra ecclesiasticos mores licentiam sibi de usurpatione fecerunt. ...


'The synodal acts issued in the city of Toledo at the council of 66 bishops of the provinces of Spain and Gaul. In the third year of the reign of our most glorious lord, King Sisenand, on the day of the Nones of December in the year 671 of the era [= 6 December 633].

When we, the priests of Spain and Gaul gathered in the city of Toledo in the name of the Lord, out of zeal for the love of Christ and the diligence of our most pious King Sisenand, to discuss on his order and in accordance with the general law some issues concerning ecclesiastical discipline, we first gave thanks to our Saviour, almighty God. Then we thanked His servant, the most excellent and glorious king whose devotion to God is so great that he is anxious not only for human affairs but also for those of heaven. When the congregation of us all gathered in the basilica of the most blessed and holy martyr Leocadia, he also entered with the most magnificent and noble men for the great merit of his faith, and first he prostrated himself on the ground before the priests of God and asked them with tears and sighs to pray for him to the Lord. Afterwards he exhorted the synod in pious words to be mindful of the decrees of the Fathers and to try with zeal to preserve in our Church the ecclesiastical laws, and to correct those things which have come into use through negligence, or are wrongly considered to be permitted, against ecclesiastical custom. ...'

Text: Martínez Díez, Rodríguez 1992: 178–180. Translation: M. Szada.