...the temples of the Heathens, and in the Romilh church, v. 103. Introduced into the Chriftian church about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century, v. 179. PLATINA afcribes the inflitution of holy water to pope Alexander the firft, V. 97. His affertion...

...and ac5ts of chriftian faints*. The cuftom of having pictures in churches being once begun (which was about the end of the fourth or the beginning of the fifth century, and generally by converts from paganifm) the more wealthy among the chriftians feem to have vied with...

...the four feafons wer? inftituted at Rome, about JSeafon of Advent, its Origin and Inftitution. .23 the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century ; and LEO who wrote about AD 450, when they were fully eftablifhed, afiigns feverat reafons for the...

...the insertion of a cross within its circumference is first noticed in SS. Peter and Marcellinus at the end of the fourth or the beginning of the fifth century. The Virgin receives the nimbus later still, and it is not until the end of the fifth century that it...

...death, by Peter. That most of these constitutions, as we now have them, were not compiled sooner than the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth, century, bishop Pearson* and Dr. Grabef have put beyond A doubt. That the order about the observance of easterj...

...scruple to recur to it for aid, in explaining the Scriptures. The version, thus quietly introduced about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth, century, and left to its fate, to be used by those who liked it, and neglected by those who disliked it, advanced...

...scruple to recur to it for aid, in explaining the Scriptures. The version, thus quietly introduced about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth, century, and left to its fate, to be used by those who liked it, and neglected by those who disliked it, advanced...

...Advent-fast the three Ember days in December. The Ember days for the four seasons were instituted at Rome, about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century ; and LEO who wrote about AD 450, when they were fully established, assigns several reasons for the...

...of the Apostles, was current in the christian world without the clause, communion of saints, until the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century. It was then inserted, in order to maintain the principle of the union and communion of the Catholic...

...idea is Nonnus of Panopolis in Egypt. Unfortunately his age is rather late, he having flourished at the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century : yet this was many centuries before the ancient Greek ceased to be a living, language. Nothing is...