Intermountain Catholic | 1910-06-25 | Page 3 | The Truce of God

THE TRUCE OF GOD. The "truce of God" was introduced by the clergy of Guienne around about the year 1030. It was adopted in Spain about 1050, in England about 1080. According to this famous treaty, a cessation of all violent quarrels was enjoined under heavy penalties during all church festivals and from every Wednesday evening until the following follow-ing Monday morning. This left only about eight days in the year available for shooting and stabbing one's neighbors. neigh-bors. The truce seems to have accomplished ac-complished much good, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the fact that It was very imperfectly imper-fectly observed.