V, col. 1511; see also "Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers,"
Vol. XIII, book 13, epistle 1._
Eleventh Century
The Pope's legates at Constantinople (A.D. 1054) were called to
discuss with Nicetas, "one of the most learned men at that time in the
East," says Bower, whose position was "that the Sabbath ought to be kept
holy, and that priests should be allowed to marry."--_"History of the
Popes," Vol. II, p. 358._
The people of north Scotland, the ancient Culdee church founded by
Columba and his followers, far removed from direct papal influence, was
still keeping the seventh-day Sabbath in the eleventh century. Of this
church Andrew Lang says in his "History of Scotland:"
"They worked on Sunday, but kept Saturday in a Sabbatical
manner."--_Volume I, p. 96._
Skene, in his classic work, "Celtic Scotland," says of these Sabbath
keepers:
"They seemed to have followed a custom of which we find traces
in the early monastic church of Ireland, by which they held
Saturday to be the Sabbath, on which they rested from all their
labors."--_Book 2, chap. 8.
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