[428] Lib. Pont. ed., Bianchini, ii. 386.
[429] In Spain the litanies were on 10th Sept., 7th Nov., and 15th Dec., according to the lectionary of Silos.
[430] The Martyrium was erected on Golgotha, close to the site of the present Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Anastasis, built by Constantine, was the larger of the two, and served as the usual place of assembly for the faithful in the fourth century. (Peregr. Silviæ, ed. Geyer, c. 27, 30, 39, 43).
[431] J. P. Kirch, Die Christl. Kultusgeände in Altertum, 34-40.
[432] St Gregory the Great ordered that the Anglo-Saxons should keep the dedication of churches and the natalitia martyrum in the same way as they had previously observed the festivals while they were yet heathen, that is to say by erecting huts of branches and by feasting. (Epist. ii. 76, of the year 601).
[433] For the East, see Johannes Eub., Orat. in Concep. B.M.V., c. 23. Migne, Patr. Gr., xcvi. 1499. For the West, see the Sermons of St Augustine on the “Dedicatio,” Sermo 336-338.
[434] Our informants are Euseb., Vita Constant, 4, 6; Sozomen, Hist. Eccl., 2, 26; 3, 5; Socrates, Hist. Eccl., 2, 6.
[435] Euseb., Hist. Eccl., 10, 3; Ambrose, Ad Marcellinam Epist., 22, 1 (Migne, Patr. Lat., xvi. 1019). Paulinus of Nola, Nat. S. Fel., 9; Poema, 27, 402 seqq. (Migne, lxi. 657); Peregr. Silviæ, as above.
[436] Missale Francorum in Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxii. 328.
[437] Dionys, De Hier. Eccl., 4, 12. See Rahmani, Testam. D.N.I. Chr., 156.