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 fast on every day in Lent.” L. de Elia et Jejunio, c. 10. T. i. 545.

St. EPIPHANIUS, G.C.—“The Catholic Church is used to observe the Lent before the seven last days of Easter, and to persevere in fasting, the Sundays excepted.” In exposit. Fidei, n. xxii. T. i. p. 1105.

St. John CHRYSOSTOM, G. C.-“ Lent, and the holy exercises conjoined with it, are undertaken, that by them those crimes being wiped away, which, in the course of the year, we have committed, we may, with a holy confidence, be made partakers of the unbloody Sacrifice.”

Homil. xx. De ira. T. ii. p. 199.-—“ It is a common practice in Lent to enquire how many weeks any one has fasted? And some answer, that they have fasted two, or three, or the whole six weeks. But where is the gain, if without good deeds we have fasted? If any one says he has fasted the whole: be you able to say ; I had an enemy, but we are reconciled.—If we barely abstain from certain meats, with the forty days the fast also passes ; but, in abstaining from sin, we keep a continual fast.” Homil. xvi. ad Pop. Antioch. Ibid. p. 168-9.

ST. JEROM, L. C.-“ According to Apostolical Tradition, at the proper season of the year, we observe Lent." Ep. xxvii. ad Marcellum, T. iv. Pars 11. p. 64.—“The fast of the whole year is alike, Lent excepted; during which more severity must be used.” Ep. xviii. ad Eustoch. Ibid. p. 46.

St. AUGUSTIN, L. C.-“From the fasts of Moses and Elias in the old law, and from that of Christ in the Gospel, Lent rests on their authority. Christ fasted forty days to shew, that the Gospel differed not from the law and the prophets.” L. ii. ad Inquisit. Januarii, Ep. lv. c. xv. T. 11. p. 139.-“ Before Easter we fast forty days.” Tract. xvii. in Evang. Joan. Pars ii. T. iii. p. 424.—“ These are the forty