Note 573 — Chapter II · THE SAINTS’ DAYS (continued 2)

“Depositio,” κατάθεσις, etc., is the actual name of the feast in the Calendars, and in the older menologies it is called “ἡ σορὸς τῶν βλαχένων Σορός.” Arca or loculus is the wooden coffin in which Mary is said to have been originally placed in Jerusalem, and which was brought to Constantinople under Marcian. Morcelli, ii. 151. Muralt, Chronogr. Byz., i. 83.