>Eucharist for Dead Bodies Condemned
Wow, this is a very strange canon from the early Church:
The fourth canon of the Council of Hippo (AD 393) declared, “The Eucharist shall not be given to dead bodies, nor baptism conferred upon them.”
The weird thing about it is that this canon would only have been decreed because the Eucharist was being given to dead people…
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