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The Greeks used them anciently, as Martene proves from a libellus de miraculis Anastasii presented to the second council of Nice, from S. John Chrysostom's life by Metaphrastes etc. etc. In modern times also they continue to use them. Benedict XIV observes that the practice of the Latin church on these days is intended to preserve the remembrance of the ancient custom.
Ecclesia orientalis ad Symmachum episcopum Romanum. Mansi, viii. 221-6. In qua fortitudinem Ecclesiæ suæ constituit. Epistola Anastasii ad Hormesdam pontificem. Mansi, viii. 384. Mansi, viii. 389-393. Photius, i. 143-5, translated. Ep. x. ad Avitum Viennensem. Mansi, viii. 410. Theophanes, p. 248. Mansi, viii. 425. German Röhrbacher, viii. 532, book 43, 81, mostly followed. Mansi, viii. 435.
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