[358] Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxxv. 139. Binterim, Denkw., v. 167.
[359] Thus the Comes Pamelii in Ranke’s supplement and the old lectionaries of Cologne, Treves, and Münster. See Schue, Die bibl. Lesungen, etc., Treves, 1861, 129 et seqq.
[360] Since 1893, the third Sunday after Epiphany has also a special character owing to the Feast of the Holy Family falling on it.
[361] See the critical edition of C. A. Wilson (Oxford, 1894), p. 9.
[362] Augustin., Sermo 198, c. 1. “Vos quasi solemniter hodie convenire conspicimus.”
[363] Turon., 2, can. 17, 22; Antissiod., can. 1.
[364] Tolet., 4 (633), can. 11; Lex Visigoth., ii. tit. i. 12, and xii. 3, 6; Mon. Germ. Leges Sect. 1, tom. i. 1, 59 and 434. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxxi. 478.
[365] Migne, i. 212, col. 70-73 for the text. See Heuser, Kirchenlexikon, iv., 2nd ed., 1395 seqq. The so-called Feast of Asses, about which so much has been written, was a harmless affair. It took its name from semi-theatrical performances inspired by passages of Scripture which happen to mention an ass.
[366] In this document it is called “Natale S. Mariæ.”
[367] Wiegand, 27.