Editorial note — APPENDIX E ON THE FOUR COLOURS USED IN CHURCH HANGINGS, ETC.

[Footnote 661: That is, on the 27th of December, the day of his 'deposition': the other feast, kept in memory of his deliverance from the boiling oil, before the Latin gate, and therefore called S. Joannes ante Portam Latinam, is the 5th of May.] [Footnote 662: The 22nd of February.] [Footnote 663: Which are S. Stephen, the Holy Innocents, S. Thomas of Canterbury.] [Footnote 664: Isaiah xix, 3.] [Footnote 665: S. Luke i; 35.] [Footnote 666: Jeremiah i, 3.] [Footnote 667: S. Luke i, 15.] [Footnote 668: Isaiah Ix, 3.] [Footnote 669: A very harsh construction: but surely preferable to that by which the Blessed Virgin herself is spoken of as the promised light.]