Note 128 — Chapter X · THE ORDINATION IN DECEMBER.

The learned Bianchini plausibly conjectures that the station on Easter Sunday is not at the Lateran (the cathedral), nor at St. Peter’s, where the Pope officiates, at one of which it would naturally be expected to be, but at the Liberian basilica, because it used to be held for the administration of baptism at St. Pudentiana’s, which is only a stone’s throw from it.