Eucharist, The Liturgies. Their Origin and Content The Oriental Liturgies, The Occidental Liturgies, . Sacerdotal Vestpaents, g 96. §95. S 97. i? §9S. ^ 99. ij ^ 100 A.cta Sanc- Preachino PAGE 425 428 4G9 THIRD PERIOD. FEOM CONSTAKTINE THE GEEAT TO GBEGOEY THE GEEAT. ^ ^^ A.D. 311—590. ^-p . sjet SOURCES. r. CHRISTIAN SOUECES : (a) The Acts of Councils ; in the CoUectiones conciliorum of ffardouin, Par. 1715 sqq. 12 vols. fol. ; Mami, Flor. et Ven. 1759 sqq. 31 vols, fol.; FucTis: Bibliothek der Kirchenver- sammlungen des 4ten und 5teii Jahrh. Leipz. 1780 sqq. ; and Bruns : Bibhoth. eccl. vol. i. Canones Apost. et Cone. saec. iv.-vii. Berol. 1839. (b) The Impeeial Laws and Deceees referring to the church, in the Codex Theodosianus, collected a.d, 438, the Codex Justinianeus, collected in 529, and the Cod. repetitae praelectionis of 534. (c) The Official Lettees of popes (in the Bullarium Romannm),. patriarchs, and bishops. (d) The writings of aU the CnrECH Fathees from the beginning of the 4th century to the end of the 6th. Especially of Eusebits, Atfaxasius, Basil, the two Geegoeies, the two Cyeils, Chetsostom, and Theo- doeet, of the Greek church ; and Ailbbose, ArorsTiNE, Jeeome, and Leo the Great, of the Latin. Comp. the Benedictine editions of the several Fathers; the Maxima Bibliotheca veterum Patrum, Lugd. 1677 sqq. (in all 27 vols, fol.j, vols, iii.-xi. ; Gallayuli: Biblioth. vet. Patram, etc. Ven. 1765 sqq. (14 vols, fol.), vols, iv.-xii. (e) Contemporary Chuech Histoeiaxs, (1) of the Greelc church : Eusebits of Caesarea (t about 340) : the ninth and tenth books of his H. E. down to 324, and his biography of Constantine the Great, see § 2 infra ; Soceates Scholasticus of Constantinople : Histor. ecclesiast. libri vii, a.d. 306-439; Heemias Sozojiex of Constantinople: H. eccl. 1. ix, A.D. 323-423 ; Theodoeet, bishop of Cyros in Mesopo- tamia: H. eccl. 1. V, a.d. 325-429; the Arian Philostoegius : H. eccl. 1. xii, A.D. 318-425, extant only in extracts in Photius cod. 40 ; Theodoeus Lectoe, of Constantinople, epitomizer of Socrates, Sozo ■ VOL. II. — 1 2 THIRD PERIOD. A.D. 311-590. men, and Tbeodoret, continuing the latter down to 518, preserved in fragments by Nicephorus Oallistus ; Evagrius of Antioch : H. eccl. 1. ■vi, A.D. 431-594 ; Nicepiioeus Callistds (or Nicepli. Callisti), about 1330, author of a church history in 23 books, to a.d. 911 (ed. Fronto Ducaeus, Par. 1630). The historical works of these Greek writers, excepting the last, are also published together under the title : Historiae ecclesiasticae Scriptores, etc., Graec. et Lat., with notes by//. Valesius (and G. Reading), Par. 1659-1673; and Cautabr. 1720, 8 vols. fol. (2) Of the Latin church historians few are important: Rufinds, presb. of Aquileia (1410), translated Eusebius and continued him in two more books to 395; Sulpioius Severus, presb. in Gaul: Hist. I Pf '«rv**.v»V' sacra, J. ii, from the creation to a.d. 40^; Paulijs Oeosius, presbyter lA in Spain: Ilistoriarum libri