[214] “[The tomb] of Dionysius, physician [and] priest,” lately found at the entrance to the crypt of St. Cornelius, in the cemetery of Callistus.
[215] “Qui verbo suo instaurat universa.” The Breviary.
[216] Eusebius, in his account of Serapion, teaches us that this was the manner of administering Holy Communion to the sick, without the cup, or under only one kind.
[217] Persons freed from slavery retained the title of freedman or freedwoman (libertus, liberta) of the person to whom they had belonged, as “of Augustus.” If they had belonged originally to a free class, they were liberated as ingenuus or ingenua (well-born) and restored by emancipation to that class.
[218] Phil. ii. 7.
[219] Isaias vii. 14.
[220] “Cum arcam suam, in qua Domini sanctum fuit, manibus indignis tentasset aperire, igne inde surgente deterrita est, ne auderet attingere.” “When she attempted to open, with unworthy hands, her chest, in which was the holy (body) of our Lord, she was deterred from daring to touch it, by fire rising up from it.” De Lapsis.
[221] See Martenne, De antiquis Ecclesiæ Ritibus.
[222] So in the eastern liturgies. Fortunatus calls the Blessed Eucharist, “Corporis Agni margaritum ingens.” “The huge pearl of the Body of the Lamb.” Lib. iii. car. 25.
[223] De morte Satyri.