[[5]] This passage in "The Dream of Gerontius" calls to mind Tennyson's lines in "The Princess":
"Ah, sad and strange, as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square."
[[6]] La Psychologie du Purgatoire (The Psychology of Purgatory): Abbé Chollet, Doctor of Theology at Lille.
[[7]] The Holy Father "creates" Cardinals, he does not appoint them.
[[8]] Catholic Life and Letters by Cardinal Newman; with Notes on the Oxford Movement and its Men:—John Oldcastle (Mr. Wilfred Meynell). To which work the editor is under obligation for important parts of the appended chronology.
[[9]] γερων—οντος.
[[10]] The word "refrigerium" was used for "refreshment," "rest" in the epitaphs of the early Latin Christians.