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Billuart quotes the text of the fourth Council of Carthage to prove that it existed in the fourth century, Clericus, qui absque corpusculi sui inequalitate vigiliis deest, stipendiis privatus, excommunicatur. Gavantus can find traces of it only as late as the sixth century. Several decrees of provincial councils regarding this custom are quoted by writers on liturgy.
John of the Cross, at the instance of the Saint, was sent to Avila, with another father of the reformed Carmelites, to be confessor of the nuns of the Incarnation, who then disliked the observance of the primitive rule. 2 Cor. xi. 27: "In labore et aerumna, in vigiliis multis." St. Matt. xvii. 2: "Et transfiguratus est ante eos." St. John xiii. 16: "Non est servus major domino suo." Relation IV.
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