[224] St. Aug. Tract. cxviii. in Joan.
[225] Tertullian (who lived earlier than two hundred years after Christ, and is the oldest Latin ecclesiastical writer) de Corona Milit. c. 3.
[226] Audientes.
[227] Genuflectentes.
[228] Electi and competentes.
[229] These will be found, particularly in the baptism of adults, joined with repetitions of the Our Father.
“Agnæ sepulchrum est Romulea in domo,
Fortis puellæ, martyris inclitæ.
Conspectu in ipso condita turrium
Servat salutem virgo Quiritum:
Necnon et ipsos protegit advenas,
Puro ac fideli pectore supplices.”
Prudentius.
“The tomb of Agnes graces Rome,
A maiden brave, a martyr great.
Resting in sight of bastioned gate,
From harm the virgin shields her home;
Nor to the stranger help denies,
If sought with pure and faithful sighs.”
[231] St. Ambrose said Mass in the house of a lady beyond the Tiber. (Paulinus, in his Life, tom. ii. Oper. ed. Bened.) St. Augustine mentions a priest’s saying Mass in a house supposed to be infested with evil spirits. De Civ. D. lib. xxii. c. 6.