Ad duas voces aequales?for Due voces equaliter
And firstly, with regard to our Saviour's Birth on December 25, we have St John Chrysostom (A.D. 386) telling us, in his Homily for this Feast, that the Western Churches had, from the very commencement of Christianity, kept it on this day. He is not satisfied with merely mentioning the tradition; he undertakes to show that it is well founded, inasmuch as the Church of Rome had every means of knowing the true day of our Saviour's Birth, since the acts of the Enrolment, taken in Judea by command of Augustus, were kept in the public archives of Rome.
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