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Canonical Letter to Basilides
St Dionysius of Alexandria, NPNF II.14; summary
Chapter 1
When the Paschal fast is to be broken depends on the precise hour of our Saviour’s resurrection, and this was not certainly to be known from the Four Evangelists; therefore they who have not fasted the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday before Easter, do no great thing if they fast the Friday and Saturday, and so till past three on Easter morning. But they who have fasted the whole six days, are not to be blamed if they break their fast after midnight. Some do not fast any of these days.
Notes
- I have here placed Johnson’s epitome of these canons; the Ancient Epitome is lacking.