St. LEO, L. C.-He remarks, speaking of the Passion of our Saviour, that “the variety of carnal Sacrifices ceasing, the single oblation of the body and blood takes place of all other victims." But this properly is referred to the bloody Sacrifice on the cross. Serm. viii. de Pass. Dom. p. 265.Afterwards he thus writes to Dioscorus, the same Bishop of Alexandria, whose reprehensible conduct we have just seen: “That the discipline of our Churches may in all things agree, this should be observed: that when a more solemn feast calls the people together, and more meet than the Church can contain, the offering of the Sacrifice be repeated, lest any be deprived of it; for religion and reason demand, that the Sacrifice should be as often offered, as there are people to partake. Otherwise, if the custom of one Mass be followed, they, who cannot find place, must be deprived of the Sacrifice. We therefore anxiously exhort you, that you do not neglect, but join with us, as in faith so in practice, to observe a rule that by Tradition is come down to us.” Ep. xi, al. lxxxi. ad Diosc. Alex. p. 437.
St. EUCHERIUS,[1] L. C.-“ Let all unbelief be gone,
- ↑ He was Bishop of Lyons, and had been a monk in the convent of Lerins. Some works, very elegantly written, are ascribed to him ; but I would not say, that the Sermon, from which I quote this passage, is from him, though I find it under his name. It is admitted, however, to be ancient; and as it delivers explicitly the doctrine, which, in this and in the preceding centuries, had been taught, its authority may fairly be added to the general mass of evidence. He probably was contemporary with Vincent of Lerins, of whom we have made great use; and died about the year 454. See Dupin and Cave.
