Translation from the latin by John Wijngaards Women are not allowed to visit a church during menstruation or after the birth of a child. For only a woman is an animal that menstruates. Through touching her blood fruits will fail to get ripe.
Mustard degenerates, grass dries up and trees lose their fruit before time.
Iron gets rusted and the air becomes dark. Blessed Gregory said that a woman does not sin in this matter when she enters in church humbly in order to give thanks. On Distinctio 5, princ. Ida Raming, The Exclusion of Women from the Priesthood , Scarecrow Press, Metuchen 1976, pp.