[607] Augustin., Sermo, 295, c. 8; 296, c. 1.
[608] See my article “Petrus und Paulus” in the Katholik, 1887, i. 11-39.
[609] Chrysostom, Opera, ed. Montfaucon, ii. 1.
[610] Prudentius, Perist., 12, 2: “Romam per omnem cursitant orantque;” v. 52: “Aspice per bifidas plebs Romula funditur plateas,” and especially v. 63: “Transtiberina prius solvit sacra pervigil sacerdos, Mox huc recurrit duplicatque vota.”
[611] Sermo, 84, al. 81 of Leo the Great is entitled: In Octavis SS. apostolorum. See Amalarius, De Off. Eccl., 3, 36.
[612] Hist. Eccl., 2, 16, ed. Vales, 518. Theophanes, ad an. 492.
[613] Among the Calendars published by Seldenius (De Synedriis III., c. 15) one contains it, another on 27th June has “Planctus Pauli” (see p. 212), and the third (p. 241) has another martyr called Basamon. Binterim is mistaken in thinking the feast is absent from no ancient Calendar (Denkw., v. 383).
[614] Eudocia lived as a widow at Jerusalem, 450-455, and died there. She had previously visited Jerusalem in 438. Muralt, Chron. Byz., i. 47, 68.
[615] A priest of this church, called Philip, was papal legate at the Council of Ephesus.
[616] De Rossi, Inscr. Chr., ii. 1, 110, 134, 164. Grisar, Gesch. Roms., i. 172, pt. I. Other witnesses for the existence of St Peter’s chain at Rome are Arator, Acta Apost., i. 1067; Justinian, Epist., in Labbe-Cossart, iv. 1416; Gregor M., Epist., i. 30, ix. 122, xi. 53, etc.