[148] Pseudo-Alcuin. Migne, Patr. Lat., ci. 1205 et seq.
[149] Oleum in altari sanctificatum. Cyprian, Epist., 70, c. 2.
[150] So called from St John xiii. 34: mandatum novum do vobis. The washing of the feet preceded vespers. Each monk had to wash the feet of the poor, and, lastly, the abbot and prior washed the feet of the brethren. Consuet. Farf., 49. [Hence the English name for the day. Trans.]
[151] De Off. Eccl., 1, 29. Lit. Mozar. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxxv. 406.
[152] St Augustin., Conf., 8, 5; de loco eminentiori.
[153] Epist., 23, c. 12. Migne, Patr. Lat., xvi. 1030.
[154] Constit. Apost., 5, 18; ἡμέρα, γάρ εἰσι πένθους ἀλλ’ οὐχ ἑορτῆς.
[155] This is also the custom in the Russian Church. “The priests wear black vestments during the whole service on Good Friday, as a sign of grief for the death of the Redeemer.” (Maltzew, lxxxiv.) By the law of 2nd Sept. 1899, in Prussia, Good Friday was made a general public holiday.
[156] His dissertation is incorporated in the treatise, De Divinis Officiis of the pseudo-Alcuin (Migne, Patr. Lat., ci., 1211 et seqq.). He is also the author of the short treatise De Computo (Migne, cxxxvii. 18 seqq.). Trithemius wrongly locates him in the eleventh century.
[157] Epist. ad Decentium Eng., 25, c. 2: Constat apostolos biduo isto in mœrore fuisse et propter metum Judæorum occuluisse. Quod utique non dubium est, in tantum eos jeiunasse biduo memorato, ut traditio ecclesiæ habeat, isto biduo sacramenta penitus non celebrari. Sacramenta here means masses, as well as Sacramentarium Missale. It appears that the two last days of each week in Lent were without a celebration of the liturgy, for the Pope continues: Quæ utique forma per singulas tenenda est hebdomadas, etc.