Note 726 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Ut ex recordatione eorum proficiamus.—Orig. in Rom., xii. These commemorations of the departed were generally celebrated on the anniversaries of their death—their birthday as it was called—Oblationes pro defunctis pro natalitiis, annua die facimus—Tertul., De Coron. Mil., c. 3; cf. De Monogam., c. 10.