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Eulalia, and bidding them bring baskets of flowers in honour of the youthful martyr ; and at the same period was the custom introduced of burning tapers before the places where the saints reposed. The priest Vigilantius cavilled at this practice, and taxed it * Theodoret, cited by Barunius, ad. ann. 44, 87 ; St. August, epist. 29 ; St. Gregory Nyssan.in Vita St. Gregorii Thaumaturgi. The Councils instantly reproved the disorders which crept into these new festivals. Concilium Caxthagin. iii. ca...non 30 ; Tolet. in. cap. xxiii ; Marangoni, p. 282. 126 CIVIIilZATION IN FIFTH CENTURY. with idolatry ; bnt St. Jerome replied, and his clever genius embraced at once the whole scope of the question. " You call these Christians idolaters. I deny it not, for all who believe on Christ* have come from idolatry ; but because we rendered this worship once to idols, mu^t it be forbidden now to oflfer it to the true God ? All the churches of the East bum candles at the mo- ment of the reading of the Gospel, not truly to dissi- pate the darkness, for at that hour the sun is shining with all its brightness, but as a sign of joy, in memory of those lamps which the wise virgins kept burning in honour of the Eternal Light, of which it is written, * Thy word, Lord, shall be a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my paths.' "* St.
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