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THE SABBATH IN THE GREAT SCHISM OF A.D. 1054 Early in Christian era church leaders was the matter 1053 In that Trani, in Migne's PatroEogia Gaeca, Vol. CXX, cols. 835-845; Patrologia Latina, Vol. CXLIII, cols, gzg-g32. 76 R. L. ODOM rius, he reiterated Roman same means Emperor Constantine sympathy and Constantinople prior 1054. a year thereafter was filled I1 in April 1055. received definite before leaving Rome, should fail or succeed. Hence, not have wait for and the pope. Cerularius, the letter had written he felt toward him. associates proceeded Studion debated there spent their in the city without been insulted dramatic act schism. Proceeding Sophia on 6 Leo IX, Epistle 103, to Emperor Constantine Monomachos, in Migne's Patrologia Latina, Vol. CXLIII, cols. 777-78 I. Humbert, Brevis et Succincta Commemoratio, chaps. I and 2, in Migne's Patrologia Latina, Vol. CXLI I I, cols. I OOI I 002. 78 every (sort of) do) on fast as (are wont to) fast sixth day day next to it. However, you [Greeks], if you do not judaize, tell (us) why you have something similar observance They certainly observe the Sabbath, you observe (it) ; always break 40-day period except you [Greeks] in your 40-day except one. They [the twofold reason for day on account resurrected. Wherefore, Sabbath with [Sunday] Lord's appear such observance manner accept Christianity compassionate regard for (His) resurrection the Lord's day, when concern much troubled Jews as sepulcher by means [Latins], holding end, are careful ancient and venerable confirmed, among Pope Sylvester, spiritual father Great, said, among other things: every [Sunday] Lord's [Lord's] resurrec- ion account] of the burial is to be estimated in execration of the had a lamentation buried Lord, brevailed] fasting apostles sadness reigned. thereforc, sad with tllc rejoice with them should observe Jewish custom, the subversions of the foods and ceremonies of the Jews.' lo similar things having said by 792-795), in his Epistle 70, to Bishop Egila of Spain, and Nicholas I, bishop of Rome (A.D. 858-867), only speak of over fasting but cite Sylvester ceased among Catholics in general.14 Greek churches, intents and be regarded worship among be? information concerning seventh day Privilege connected with see: Pope Pius XI, Epistle I (dated March 18, 1922)~ in Acta Apostolicae Sedis, XIV (Rome, 1922)~ 274; Wm. E. Addis Arnold, "Mary, Saturday," A ; New York, 1958)~ pp. 609, 610; Donald Attwater, "Mary, Saturday Office of the Blessed Virgin," ibid., p. 450; "Saturday," ibid., p. 450; Lady, Saturday," 1956), p. 211 Privilege," ibid., "Saturday and ibid., pp. 262, 263; Conde B. Pollen and John J. Wynne, "Saturday," The New Catholic Dictionary (New York, 1929)~ p, Carol, Mariology, 111 (Milwaukee, 1961)~ the Sabbath Roschi- nil "Sabbato," Dizionario di Mariologia (Rome, 1961)~ p. 447; John F. Sullivan, The Externals of the Catholic Church (New York, 1919)~ pp. 194, 195; "Avignon," The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 11, p. 160; "Sabbatine Privilege," ibid ., Vol. XIII, pp. 289, 290 ; "Scapular," ibid., Vol. XIII, pp. 51 I, 512 ; "Virgin," ibid., Vol. XV, p. 463, col. I ; "Mary," Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, ed. James Hastings, VIII (New York, 1928)~ ed. Zefferts 11 (Grand Rapids, 1955)~ 991 ; "Mary, the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of God," The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. F. L. Cross, (London, 1958), p. "Sabbatine Privilege," clSaturday," 1218; "Mary Christian Antiquities, ed. Smith and I1 (London, 1880), 1140, 1148. l4 On the disuse of the Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, as a Catholics, see 907), 69-7 I ; "Balti- more," ibid., Vol. 11, p. 233; "Calendar," Vol. 111, p, 166; "Super- stition," ibid., Vol. XIV, p. 340; "Abstinence," The Oxford Dictionary 2; "Fasts and 495; Church Year and Calendar (Cambridge, I~IO), p. 8. l5 See the remarks of Dowden, ibid., pp. 143, 144.