[178] Thalhofer, Liturgik, ii. 2, 551. For ancient and popular customs, see Migne, Handbuch, 662 et seqq.
[179] Peregr. Silviæ., ed. Geyer, c. 39 and 40. In many dioceses of France processions were made throughout the entire week (Martène, iii. 510).
[180] De Cleric. Instit., 2, 39; Knöpfler, 138.
[181] Muratori, Lit. Rom. Vet., ii. 67-75. The designation of the several days of Easter week differs only in form from that now in use. The ferias are called “feriæ in albis,” the Sunday after Easter, “Dominica post albas, scil. depositas.”
[182] This consisted in pouring out at the altar water drawn from the pool of Siloe (Winer, Bibl. Realw., ii. 8).
[183] Athanasius, translated by Larsow, 94, and for the whole subject, Nilles: Innsbr. Zeitschr. für kath. Theol., 1895, 169 seqq.
[184] The history of fasting, abstinence, and kindred subjects is excellently given by Baillet (ix. 37-130), according to the information at his disposal. Of more recent works, Funk, Die Entwicklung des Osterfastens in seinen kirchengeschichtlichen Abhandlungen, Paderborn, 1897, 241-70.
[185] Didaché, c. 8; Hermas, Simil., 5, 1; Tert., De Jej., c. 2, 10, 14.
[186] “Jejuno bis in sabbato” (St Luke xviii. 12); Duchesne, Orig., 218; Funk, Anm. zur Didaché, 8, 1.
[187] Strom., 7, 74, ed. Sylburg.