Note 32 — February 11.
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The term used throughout in the Acts is "the Collect."
[33] These were, by laying her head on the altar to offer it to God, and all her life after wearing her hair long, as did the ancient Nazarenes: Act. p. 417. S. Optatus, c. 6. S. Ambr. and Virg. c. 8. But in Egypt and Syria the ceremony of this consecration consisted in the virgin cutting off her hair in the presence of a priest.
[34] An instance of a child being, in the fourth century, allowed to assist at Mass.
[35] Lebito, or Levitonarium, described thus in the life of S. Pachomius, c. 14. Levitonarium est colobium lineum sine manticis, quali Monachi Ægyptii utuntur.