[468] See the fourth canon of the Council of Valentia in A.D. 524.
[469] Edited by Baluzius, Capitul. Reg. Franc., Appendix. Also in Migne, Patr. Lat., xcix. 633. Other formulæ of the Carolingian period are given in Migne, cxxxviii. 885-902.
[470] This branch of hagiography has been carefully dealt with by Baillet. The entire first volume of his great work, Les Vies des Saints, is devoted to Old Testament Saints, more than a hundred in number, and to the history of their cultus.
[471] E. A. Kneller, in order to explain the choice of the 24th for the 25th June, draws attention to the way in which the ancient Roman Calendars were written, i.e. viii. Kal. Jan. = 25th December; viii. Kal. Jul. = 24th July (Innsbr. Zeitschr. für kath. Theol., 1901, 527).
[472] Agath. Can. 31, 63.
[473] Ivo Carn., Decretum, 4, 14. Migne, Patr. Lat., clxi. 266.
[474] According to St Augustine (sermo 292, c. i.) it was “traditione majorum receptum.”
[475] Morcelli, Menol. Const., ii. 13 seq. No less than fifteen churches and chapels were dedicated to St John the Baptist in Constantinople.
[476] Josephus, Antt., 18, 5, 2.
[477] Tillemont, Mém., i. 44; vii. 163.