[36] [But Feltoe reads ‘iiii. n̅o̅n̅. a̅u̅g̅.,’ which corresponds with the ordinary date, Aug. 2. The actual prayers, however, in the Leonine Sacramentary refer to St Stephen the protomartyr, whose ‘Invention’ the Roman Kalendar still keeps on Aug. 3. See Feltoe, pp. 85 f., with notes. Edd.]
[37] Gregorius disappears from this day in the Gregorian Kalendar.
[38] See Muratori’s Liturg. Rom. Vet. I. 48-50.
[39] It will interest English students to know that the synod of Worcester, under Cantilupe, in A.D. 1240 appointed this day, with three others, St Margaret’s, St Lucy’s, and St Agatha’s, to be free from labour for women.
[40] Histoire du Bréviaire romain, p. 132.
[41] in Diem Natal. 1.
[42] Topograph. Christ. v. 194 (Migne, P. G. lxxxviii. 197).
[43] See the late Dr George Salmon’s masterly article ‘The Commentary of Hippolytus on Daniel’ in Hermathena, vol. VIII. 1893, and Bishop J. Wordsworth’s exposition in the Ministry of Grace, pp. 393-398.
[44] Ministry of Grace, 399.
[45] There are unfortunately some grave doubts as to the correct text of Sozomen, and as to the accuracy of his computation. See what is said by Ussher in his Dissertation de Macedonum et Asianorum anno solari, c. 2. Compare also Jerome’s Commentary on Ezekiel where the time of the prophet’s vision (thirtieth year, fourth month, fifth day, I. 1) is set forth as corresponding to the day of the Lord’s baptism and Epiphany. Jerome makes the fourth month ‘of the orientals’ correspond to the January of the Romans.