Editorial note — APPENDIX E ON THE FOUR COLOURS USED IN CHURCH HANGINGS, ETC.
J. M. (John Mason) Neale translation
[Footnote 675: Apocalypse vii, 14.] [Footnote 676: Isaiah lxiii, 2.] [Footnote 677: Both retained by our Church. The former (May 3) instituted in commemoration of the discovery of the True Cross, by S. Helena: the other (Sept. 14), which regulates the ember days in that month, in honour of its recapture from Chosroes by the Emperor Heraclius. ] [Footnote 678: Acts i, 1.]