[627] Pope Innocent I. flatly denies that any apostle had founded the Church of Spain. Epist. ad Decentium, 25, c. 2: “Aut legant, si in his provinciis alius apostolorum invenitur, etc.” Migne, Patr. Lat., xx. 552.

[628] Edited by Duchesne in Acta SS. Nov., vol. ii., pars. 1, 96.

[629] [And also on the 25th May.—Trans.]

[630] Hieron., De Vir. Ill., c. 2.

[631] For the proof of this, see the Author’s art. in the Katholik, 1887, i. 23.

[632] Morcelli, i. 168. He can only produce as evidence the Calendars of Reichenau and Rheinau, but they are sufficient for his purpose.

[633] The Hieronymianum at least says so on the 27th December: “Adsumptio S. Johannis Evangelistæ apud Ephesum et ordinatio episcopatus S. Jacobi fratris Domini qui ab apostolis primus ex Judaeis Hierosolymis episcopus est ordinatus.”

[634] Theodosius (530 circ.), De Situ Terræ Sanctæ, ed. Vindob., 1898, 142, 174. Venantius Fort., Carmina, 8, 6.

[635] So the Chronographer of 354. The Hieronymianum in its oldest recension (Weissenburg) has the entry: “In Africa natalis S. Philippi Apostoli, Jacobi, Quintiani, etc.” The recensions of Echternach and Metz have: “Natalis SS. Apostolorum Philippi et Jacobi,” and the incorrect addition in Africa is transferred to another place.

[636] Liber Pont., ed. Duchesne, i. 303, 306, note 2.