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

[Footnote 681: This alludes to the history of the feast of All Saints. Pope Boneface obtained a grant of the Pantheon from the Emperor Phocas: and dedicated it in honour of S. Mary and All Martyrs. This was on the 11th of May: and the feast of All Martyrs was kept on that day under the title of S. Maria ad Martyres. S. John, having confessed before the Latin gate on the 6th, the feast was subsequently kept on that day. But Gregory IV transferred it to Nov. 1st, because the harvest was then gathered in: and because the feast of All Apostles being kept on May 1st, the other would answer to it half-yearly. All Martyrs occurs, in a solitary instance, as an English dedication: All Apostles not to be found in this country, has been adopted in Germany. ]