Sabbath Historical Highlights

"Because you observe the Sabbath with the Jews and the Lord's Day with us, you seem to imitate with such observance the sect of Nazarenes."

- Hergenroether, "Photius," Vol. 3, p.746. (The Nazarenes were a Christian denomination.)

Pope Sylvester. . . the same pope decreed that the rest of the sabbath should be transferred rather to the Lord’s day (sunday) in order that on that day we should rest from worldly works for the praise of God. . .

- Hrabanus, Maurus: De institutione clericorum libri tres - BSB Clm 14210, Folio 66v

The angel was won’t to come to him on every seventh day of the week and, as one man talks with another, so Patrick enjoyed the angel’s conversation.

- The Book of Armagh folio 8v, c. 9th century

Pope Sylvester first among the Romans ordered that the names of the days of the week (Which they previously called after the name of their gods). . . the same pope decreed that the rest of the sabbath should be transferred rather to the Lord’s day (Sunday) in order that on that day we should rest from worldly works for the praise of God. . .

- Rabanus Maurus (776-856) Abbot of Fulda, Archbishop of Mainz, Germany