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Pope _Innocent I._ constituted a fast on the Sabbath day, which seems to be the first constitution of that fast; but dedicating the Sabbath to the Virgin Mary was by _Urban II._, in the latter part of the eleventh century. About this time we find _Esychius_ teaching the doctrine that the precept for the observance of the Sabbath is not one of the commandments, because it is not at all times to be observed according to the letter; and _Thomas Aquinas_, another Romish ecclesiastic, saying,
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This year, he says,
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and he quotes as his authority Roger Hoveden, Matth. Paris, and Lucius' Eccl. Hist. He says,
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By this council it was enacted that it should be holy time from the twelfth hour on Saturday noon until Monday.
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In 1203, _William_, king of Scotland, called a council of the principal of his kingdom, by which it was decreed, that Saturday, from the twelfth hour at noon, should be holy, that they should do no profane work, and this they should observe until Monday.
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It came from Heaven to Jerusalem, and was found on St. Simeon's tomb in Golgotha. And the Lord commanded this epistle, which for three days and three nights men looked upon, and falling to the earth, prayed for God's mercy. And after the third hour, the patriarch stood up; and Akarias the archbishop stretched out his mitre, and they took the holy epistle of God and found it thus written.