[568] Benedict XIV., De Festis., 2, 152.
[569] Eusebius, De Nom. Hebr. Migne, Patr. Gr., xxiii. 789.
[570] See the excellent article by J. B. Kraus in the first ed. of the Kirchenlexikons, with the additions of Schrod in the 2nd ed. For special treatises, see Benedict XIV., Commentarius de Festis B.M.V., and for a more modern work, Holweck, Fasti Mariani, Freiburg, 1892.
[571] Protoevangelium, 7. Evang. de Nativitate Mariæ, 6. See Tappehorn, Ausserbibl. Nachrichten oder die Apokryphen, 25.
[572] Morcelli, i. 287. The title runs, τὰ εἰς τὸν ναὸν εἰσοδὶα τῆς Θεομητέρος. J. B. Kraus (Kirchenlex., vi., 1st ed., 884) states it was observed in Constantinople in 730, on the authority of Simeon Metaphrastes, without giving the passages. Alt (p. 52) and others have copied from him, also without citing the passages. The statement is very improbable, for in 725 the Iconoclastic controversy had broken out, rendering its introduction unlikely. It might be considered probable if the homily of Tarasius, De Præsentatione B.M.V., were genuine. Morcelli (ii. 250) considers it spurious. The feast is also not included in the Menologium of Constantinople.
[573] “Depositio,” κατάθεσις, etc., is the actual name of the feast in the Calendars, and in the older menologies it is called “ἡ σορὸς τῶν βλαχένων Σορός.” Arca or loculus is the wooden coffin in which Mary is said to have been originally placed in Jerusalem, and which was brought to Constantinople under Marcian. Morcelli, ii. 151. Muralt, Chronogr. Byz., i. 83.
[574] Binterim, Denkw., v. 407.
[575] Constit. synodica Odonis Episc. Par. Mansi, Conc., xxii. 681, No. 10.
[576] Mansi, op. cit., 1108, i. 4. Binterim, Konzilien, iv. 480; Denkw., vii. 1, 98-129. Th. Esser, Gesch. des Engl. Grusses; Histor. Jahrbuch, 1884, 92. [For the use of the Angelic Salutation in England, see Fr. Bridgett, C. SS. R., “Our Lady’s Dowry,” chap. iv. Trans.]
[577] [For questions connected with the history of the rosary, see a series of articles in vols. 96 and 97 of The Month, by Fr. Herbert Thurston, S.J.; also, Unserer Lieben Frauen Rosenkrantz, by Fr. Th. Esser, O.P., Paderborn, 1889. Trans.]