Note 544 — Chapter II · THE SAINTS’ DAYS
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Passaglia (De Imm. Conc., iii. 1755 seqq.) is not at all shaken in his opinion by the fact that Mabillion, as he himself admits, has shown the falsified life was not written by Ildefonsus, Acta Ord. S. Bened., ii. 521. The title “conceptio S.V.M. Genitricis Domini” refers to Christmas. It is an altogether absurd idea that the Jews in the seventh century joined in the celebration of the 8th December. Unfortunately Schwane (Dogmengesch., iii. 414) has copied Passaglia’s mistake.