399. Honorius and Arcadius forbid races on Sunday (Cod. Theod., 2, 8, 23).
400. The same emperors forbid games in the circus on Christmas, Epiphany, and during Eastertide.
402. Discovery of the relics of St Stephen, Gamaliel, and Nicodemus by the priest Lucian of Jerusalem at Caphargamala. Some writers date this 5th Dec. 415.
405. The day of the death of SS. Peter and Paul mentioned as an ecclesiastical festival in Rome by Prudentius (Perist., 12).
425. Theodosius extends prohibition of games to Whit-week.
431. Bishop Paul of Emesa mentions that Christmas had been introduced in Alexandria.
348. The patriarch Proclus has the relics of St John Chrysostom brought to Constantinople on 27th Jan.
439. The Empress Eudocia translates the relics of St Stephen from Jerusalem to Constantinople and lays them in the basilica of St Lawrence, 21st Sept.
440 (circ.). St Leo refers to the Ember fasts in Rome.