Glosses

Context, cited: 54 notes.

• A cross that became a flag
• A line with no successor
• Adam at the root
• And the Son
• Because it is New Rome
• The word Catholic enters law
• Clopas and Cleopas
• Ecumenical in the West only
• Three ways to count forty days
• How a passion gets written
• Whether Ignatius argues or describes
• Junia and the accent
• Kerala counts from Quilon
• Lazarus Saturday
• Loaves and fish before the cross
• Martyr means witness
• Nine months to the day
• Why there is no year zero
• Octavius or Apologeticum?
• Presbyter and bishop
• Preserved in order to be refuted
• Seventy, or seventy-two
• The count that still runs
• Why a saint's day is the day they died
• The earliest 25 December
• The Erastus pavement
• The fast that can disappear
• The fish, and the acrostic inside it
• The stone that dates the first century
• The five Johns
• The libellus
• The mountain the gospels do not name
• Who exactly was condemned in 553
• The five sees
• The Pilate stone
• The pseudo-Areopagite
• The saint who never was
• The three Jameses
• The three Marys
• The Twelve Great Feasts, and the one that is not among them
• The two Ammonii
• The two Hermases
• The years before the list
• Thirteen days apart
• Thirty thousand is memory
• Two patriarchs of Alexandria
• What a feast day is evidence for
• What Hegesippus made at Rome
• What the pilgrim of 333 was actually shown
• When the sea was open
• Where Michael's list of the East begins
• Who followed Peter at Rome
• Why Easter moves
• The church that withdrew to Pella