[558] Passaglia, De Imm. Conc., iii. 1767. Binterim, Denkw., v. 1, 302 seq.
[559] Binterim and Mooren, Die Erzdiözese Köln I., Düsseldorf, 1892, 538. Würdtwein, Diplomat Magunt., i., Mainz, 1788, 131, No. 69. Urkunde des Klosters Jechaburg in Thüringen, see Falk, Katholik, 1903, 1.
[560] The 2nd Canon of this synod of Canterbury runs:—“Venerabilis Anselmi, prædecessoris nostri, qui post alia quædam B.M.V. antiquiora sollemnia Conceptionis festum superaddere dignum duxit, vestigiis inhærentes, statuimus, etc.” On the one hand the synod does not say that Anselm had actually introduced the feast, and, on the other, the words are too plain to allow of us thinking, with some recent writers, that the synod confused the uncle and the nephew. One cannot charge it with ignorance of this kind. See Hardouin, Conc., vii. 1538; Labbe-Cossart, Conc., ix. 2478.
[561] Hardouin, Conc., viii. 1266. Schwane, Dogmengesch., iii. 427.
[562] Nat. Alexander., Hist. Eccl., 8, 546, ed. Paris, 1627. Labbe-Cossart, Conc., viii. 1403.
[563] The feast was kept with special devotion by the Carmelite nuns in their church in Rome. Under Innocent VIII. the order of the Conceptio B.M.V. for women was also instituted in Rome. Passaglia, De Imm. Conc., iii. 1776.
[564] Passaglia, op. cit., 1777, and, after him, Tappehorn, Predigtentwürfe, ii. 9, give the date incorrectly as 1476.
[565] Ferraris, Prompta Bibl., 3, 379.
[566] Passaglia, op. cit., iii. 1788; Constitution of 10th November 1644: “In his quæ per.”
[567] From 1477-1854 is scarcely four hundred years.