[408] Epist. ad Episc. Luc., c. 11. Migne, lix. 47.
[409] Leo I., Epist. ad Dioscorum Al., c. i. Migne, Patr. Lat., liv. 626.
[410] Migne, cli. 978; c. 24-27.
[411] Morin, Révue Bénédictine, 1897, 338 seqq.
[412] Sermo 2 de Jejun. X. mensis: “Decimi mensis celebrandum esse jejunium, quo pro consummata perceptione omnium frugum dignissime largitori earum Deo continentiæ libamen offertur.”
[413] In Muratori, Lit. Rom. Vet., i. 511, 603; ii. 33, 94, 123, 136.
[414] H. Menard, Notæ et Observ. in Sacr. Greg., in Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxviii. 393.
[415] Sacr. Gelas. Migne, lxxiv. 1069, 1133, 1178 seqq.
[416] Sacr. Gregor. Migne, lxxviii. 59-61, 113-115, 140-142.
[417] Migne, Patr. Lat., xcvii. 124: “Ut jejunium quattuor temporum et ipsi sacerdotes observent et plebi denuntient observandum.” This shows that until then it had not been customary in the Frankish empire.