Editorial note — Chapter VI · OF THE DEDICATION OF A CHURCH

[Footnote 375: Exodus xxx, 23-34.] [Footnote 376: I Kings iii, 6.] [Footnote 377: Daniel iii, 2.] [Footnote 378: Book iii, ch. I. ] [Footnote 379: S. John i, 17.] [Footnote 380: 'The solemnities of the consecration of churches and of priests ought to be celebrated year by year, after the example of our Lord Himself, Who at the feast of the Dedication of the Temple did set us a pattern of this in that He celebrated this festival with the rest of the people; as it is written in S. John, "And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the Dedication, and it was winter, and Jesus walked in the Temple in Solomon's porch." Felix Papa in 'Epist. ad Episc. per divers, provincias,' cap. i.]