[508] Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxxv. 170, 734.
[509] Holweck, 292. When the 25th March falls on one of the three last days in Holy Week or Easter Week, it must be translated. Binterim (Denkw., v. 356) gives several historical references concerning this.
[510] Proclus, Oratio III., c. 2. When we find in collections of sermons (e.g. Combefis, Bibl. Conc.), some by the Fathers, such as Origen, St Ambrose, St Athanasius, etc., ascribed to the feasts of our Lady, we must not jump to the conclusion that these feasts were observed at the period when the authors of these sermons lived. These reputed sermons are only homilies on texts which suit the feast in question, and on this account have been inserted into the collection.
[511] Epiph., Hær., 79, c. 11: “I say not she did not die, yet I am not certain that she did die.”
[512] Vetter, Tüb. Theol. Quartalschr., 1887, 133 seqq. The letter is also given in the treatise by Nirschl, Das Grab der heiligen Jungfrau Maria, Mainz, 1896, 80 seqq.
[513] Transitus Mariæ in Tischendorf, Apocal. Apocr., Lips., 1866, 114.
[514] We have three sermons of John on the Assumption (Migne, Patr. Gr., xcvi.), one of Modestus, patriarch of Jerusalem (Migne, Patr. Gr., lxxxvi. pars 2), three of Andrew of Crete, who, before becoming bishop, was a monk in Palestine (Migne, Patr. Gr., xcvii., oratio 12-14), and three of Germanus (Migne, Patr. Gr., xcviii. 339-72).
[515] De Gloria Mart., i. 4.
[516] Nicephorus, Hist. Eccl., 17, 28.
[517] Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxii. 225. See also Mabillon’s note in the same col., 475.