ANSE, COUNCILS OF. - It is a small town in the diocese of Lyon, which was the seat of important provincial councils. At the first (994), the archbishops of Lyon, of Vienne, and of Tarentaise, assisted by other bishops, confirmed the possessions of the abbey of Cluny at the request of St. Odilo, who was its abbot, and restored the canons in the church of St. Romanus. Nine disciplinary canons were published there, ordaining, among other things, that the consecrated hosts be renewed every Sunday and imposing on priests the obligation to bring viaticum to the sick.
At another council, convened in 1025, in the church of St. Romanus, Gauslin, bishop of Mâcon, reproached Burchard, archbishop of Vienne, for having ordained certain monks of the abbey of Cluny, which was located in the diocese of Mâcon. The archbishop replied that he had acted thus at the invitation of the abbot of Cluny. Then St. Odilo, present there, invoked in his own favor the papal privilege by which exemption from diocesan authority was granted to the monastery. The bishops contested the legitimacy of the concession, because it was contrary to the canons of Chalcedon (can. 4), and the privilege of Cluny was for some time suspended. St. Odilo, however, had his revenge at the Roman Synod of March 1027, where he obtained confirmation with a new bull.
At the third council, held in 1070, Achard, bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, donated the cloister of St. Lawrence to the monastery of St. Martin of Ile-Barbe near Lyon. The fourth, in 1076, regulated disciplinary questions. At the fifth (1100) those who, having taken the cross, did not depart for the crusade were excommunicated.
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