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He also decreed that whoever among the faithful should bury a martyr should by no means bury him without a dalmatic or a purple-dyed colobium, this however to be made known to him. He held five ordinations in the month of December: fourteen presbyters, five deacons; bishops in various places, to the number of nine. And he was crowned with martyrdom. He too was buried in the cemetery of Callistus on the Appian Way, on the eighth day before the Kalends of August. And the episcopate was vacant for eight days. Gaius, Dalmatian by nation, of the family of the emperor Diocletian, son of Gaius, occupied the see eleven years, four months, and twelve days. He lived in the times of Carinus, from the sixteenth day before the Kalends of January, from the consulship of Carus (his second) and Carinus (283), until the tenth day before the Kalends of May, in the consulship of Diocletian (his fourth) and Constantius (his second) (296).

He decreed that all the orders in the church should be ascended thus: that if anyone should be deemed worthy of the episcopate, he should be doorkeeper, lector, exorcist, server, subdeacon, deacon, presbyter, and thereafter be ordained bishop. He divided the regions among the deacons. Fleeing the persecution of Diocletian by dwelling in the crypts, he was crowned with martyrdom after eight years. He held four ordinations in the month of December: twenty-five presbyters, eight deacons; bishops in various places, five. [After eleven years he, together with his brother Gabinus, was crowned with martyrdom on account of the daughter of the presbyter Gabinus, named Susanna.] He was indeed buried in the cemetery of Callistus on the Appian Way, on the tenth day before the Kalends of May. And the episcopate was vacant for eleven days.

Marcellinus, Roman by nation, son of Projectus, occupied the see nine years, four months, and sixteen days. He lived in the times of Diocletian and Maximian, from the Kalends of July, from the consulship of Diocletian (his sixth) and Constantius (his second) (296) until that of Diocletian (his ninth) and Maximian (his eighth) (304), at which time there was a great persecution, so that within thirty days seventeen thousand persons of both sexes throughout the various provinces were crowned with Christian martyrdom. On account of this, Marcellinus himself was led to sacrifice to offer incense, which he indeed did. And after a few days, brought to repentance, he was beheaded by the same Diocletian for the faith of Christ together with Claudius and Cyrinus and Antoninus, and they are crowned with martyrdom.

And after this deed the holy bodies lay in the open street for twenty-five days as an example to Christians, by order of Diocletian. And thereafter the presbyter Marcellus gathered the bodies by night, together with presbyters and deacons, with hymns, and buried them on the Salarian Way, in the cemetery of Priscilla, in a chamber that lies open to this present day, which he himself had appointed as a penitent while he was being dragged to execution, in a crypt beside the body of the holy Crescentio, on the seventh day before the Kalends of May. He held two ordinations in the month of December: four presbyters, two deacons; bishops in various places, five. From that day the episcopate was vacant seven years, six months, and twenty-five days, while Diocletian persecuted the Christians.

Marcellus, Roman by nation, son of Benedictus, from the region of the Via Lata, occupied the see five years, seven months, and twenty-one days. He lived in the times of Maxentius, from the consulship of Maxentius (his fourth) and Maximus until after the consulship. He made the cemetery of Novella on the Salarian Way, and established twenty-five title-churches in the city of Rome, as it were dioceses, for the baptism and penance of the many who were being converted from the pagans, and for the burials of the martyrs. He ordained twenty-five presbyters in the city of Rome and two deacons in the month of December; bishops throughout the regions, twenty-one. He was constrained and seized because he was ordering the church, and was apprehended by Maxentius so that he might deny he was a bishop and be humbled to the sacrifices of demons.

But always despising and mocking the words and commands of Maxentius, he was condemned to the catabulum (the public stable). While he served in the stable for many days, he did not cease to serve the Lord with prayers and fastings. But in the ninth month his whole clergy came by night and rescued him by night from the stable. A certain matron named Lucina, a widow, who had been married fifteen years with her husband Marcus and had lived nineteen years in her widowhood, received the blessed man; and she dedicated her house as a title-church in the name of the blessed Marcellus, where day and night she gave praise to the Lord Jesus Christ with hymns and prayers.

When Maxentius heard this, he sent and seized the blessed Marcellus again, and ordered that planks be brought into that same church and that the animals of the public stable be gathered there and kept, and that the blessed Marcellus himself should serve them. Yet in the service of the animals, naked, clothed only in a hair-shirt, he died. His body the blessed Lucina gathered and buried in the cemetery of Priscilla on the Salarian Way, on the seventeenth day before the Kalends of February. And the episcopate was vacant for twenty days. Lucina indeed was condemned by a written sentence. Eusebius, Greek by nation, formerly a physician, occupied the see six years, one month, and three days. He lived in the times of Constans. In his time was found the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, on the fifth day before the Nones of May, and there was baptized Judas, who was also called Cyriacus.

He found heretics in the city of Rome, whom he reconciled by the laying on of the hand. He held one ordination in the month of December: thirteen presbyters, three deacons; bishops in various places, to the number of fourteen. He too was buried in the cemetery of Callistus on the Appian Way, on the sixth day before the Nones of October. And the episcopate was vacant for seven days. Miltiades, African by nation, occupied the see four years, seven months, and eight days, from the Nones of July, from the consulship of Maxentius (his ninth) until that of Maximus (his second), which fell in the month of September in the consulship of Volusianus and Rufinus. He decreed that on no account should any of the faithful keep a fast on the Lord's Day or on Thursday, because the pagans celebrated those days as a kind of sacred fast. And Manichaeans were found in the City.

From that same day he ordained that the consecrated offerings should be sent through the churches from the bishop's consecration, which is called the fermentum. He held one ordination in the month of December: seven presbyters, five deacons; bishops in various places, to the number of eleven. He was buried in the cemetery of Callistus on the Appian Way, on the fourth day before the Ides of December. And the episcopate was vacant for sixteen days. Silvester, Roman by nation, son of Rufinus, occupied the see twenty-three years, ten months, and eleven days. He lived in the times of Constantine and Volusianus, from the Kalends of February until the Kalends of January in the consulship of Constantius and Volusianus.

He was in exile on Mount Soracte, and afterward, returning with glory, he baptized Constantine Augustus, whom the Lord healed of leprosy, fleeing whose persecution he is known to have first gone into exile. He built in the city of Rome a church on the estate of one of his presbyters who was surnamed Equitius, which church he established as a Roman title, near the baths of Domitian, which to this present day is called the title of Equitius, where he also established these gifts: a silver paten, weighing twenty pounds, from the gift of Augustus Constantine. He gave also: two silver chalices, each weighing ten pounds; a golden chalice, weighing two pounds; five ministerial chalices, each weighing two pounds; two silver flagons, each weighing

ten pounds; a silver chrismal paten overlaid with gold, weighing five pounds; ten crowned lamp-stands, each weighing eight pounds; twenty bronze lamps, each weighing ten pounds; twelve bronze candle-bearing chandeliers, each weighing three hundred pounds; the Valerian estate in the Sabine territory, which yields eighty solidi; the Statian estate in the Sabine territory, which yields fifty-five solidi; the estate of the Two Cottages in the Sabine territory, which yields forty solidi; the Percilian estate in the Sabine territory, which yields twenty solidi; the Corbian estate in the territory of Cora, which yields sixty solidi; a house in the city with a bath, in the Sicininus region, which yields eighty-five solidi; a garden within the city of Rome, in the region 'At the Two Lovers,' which yields fifteen solidi;

a house in the Orpheus region, within the city, which yields fifty-eight and a third solidi. He made a constitution concerning every church. Also in his times a council was held by his command at Nicaea in Bithynia; and there gathered three hundred and eighteen catholic bishops, who set forth the whole faith, catholic and immaculate, and condemned Arius and Photinus and Sabellius and their followers. And in the city of Rome he himself gathered, with the counsel of Augustus, two hundred and sixty-seven, and again condemned both Callistus and Arius and Photinus and Sabellius;

and he decreed that a presbyter should not receive a repentant Arian unless the bishop of the designated place did so, and that chrism should be confected by the bishop, and that bishops should have the privilege of signing the baptized, on account of heretical persuasion. He also decreed this, that the presbyter should anoint the baptized with chrism taken up from the water, on account of the eventuality of death in passing. He decreed that no layman should dare to bring a charge against a cleric. He decreed that deacons should wear dalmatics in church and that their left arms should be covered with linen palls. He decreed that no cleric, for any cause whatsoever, should enter the court of justice, nor plead a case before a girt judge, except in church.

He decreed that the sacrifice of the altar should not be celebrated on silk nor on dyed cloth, but only on linen produced from the earth, just as the body of our Lord Jesus Christ was buried in a clean linen shroud: so should the Masses be celebrated. He decreed that if anyone desired to serve in the church or to advance, he should be a lector for thirty years, an exorcist for thirty days, an acolyte for five years, a subdeacon for five years, a guardian of the martyrs for five years, a deacon for seven years, a presbyter for three, proven in every respect, and that even from those who are outside he should have good testimony, being the husband of one wife, his wife blessed by a priest, and thus advance to the order of the episcopate;

that no one should usurp a greater or higher place, but should with modesty acknowledge the order of the seasons, by the willing favor of all the clerics, with no cleric whatsoever objecting. He held six ordinations of presbyters and deacons in the month of December: forty-two presbyters, twenty-seven deacons, at various times in the city of Rome; bishops in various places, to the number of sixty-five. In his times Constantine Augustus built these basilicas, which he also adorned: the Constantinian Basilica, where he placed these gifts: a silver baldachin of beaten work, which has on its front the Savior seated on a throne, five feet high, weighing one hundred and twenty pounds, and the twelve apostles, each five feet high weighing ninety pounds, with crowns of the purest silver;

likewise, looking back into the apse, the Savior seated on a throne, five feet high, of the purest silver, weighing one hundred and forty pounds, and four angels of silver, each five feet, weighing one hundred and five pounds, with Alabandine gems for eyes, holding spears; the baldachin itself weighing two thousand and twenty-five pounds, of wrought silver. A vault of the purest gold, and a lamp of the purest gold which hangs beneath the baldachin with fifty dolphins of the purest gold, weighing fifty pounds, with chains weighing twenty-five pounds; four crowns of the purest gold with twenty dolphins, each weighing fifteen pounds; the vault of the basilica of triple-threaded gold, five hundred pounds in length and breadth; seven altars of the purest silver, each weighing two hundred pounds; seven golden patens, each weighing thirty pounds;

sixteen silver patens, each weighing thirty pounds; seven cups of the purest gold, each weighing ten pounds; a single cup of coral material, adorned all around with green and hyacinth gems, inset with gold, which weighs in all twenty pounds and three ounces; twenty silver cups, each weighing fifteen pounds; two flagons of the purest gold, each weighing fifty pounds, each holding three medimni; twenty silver flagons, each weighing ten pounds, each holding one medimnus; forty smaller chalices of the purest gold, each weighing one pound; fifty smaller ministerial chalices, each weighing two pounds. Adornment in the basilica:

a lamp-chandelier of the purest gold, before the altar, in which burns pure spikenard oil, with eighty dolphins, weighing thirty pounds; a silver lamp-chandelier with twenty dolphins, which weighs fifty pounds, where pure spikenard oil burns; forty-five silver lamp-chandeliers in the nave of the basilica, each weighing thirty pounds, where the aforesaid oil burns; on the right side of the basilica, forty silver lamps, each weighing twenty pounds; in the left of the basilica, twenty-five silver lamp-chandeliers, each weighing twenty pounds; fifty silver candle-bearing chandeliers in the nave of the basilica, each weighing twenty pounds; three vats of the purest silver, each weighing three hundred pounds, holding ten medimni;

seven candelabra of orichalcum, before the altars, which are ten feet high, with ornamentation of silver inset with figures of the prophets, each weighing three hundred pounds. For these he appointed in the service of the lights: the Gargilian estate in the Suessan territory, yielding four hundred solidi; the Bauronican estate in the Suessan territory, yielding three hundred and sixty solidi; the Aurian estate in the Laurentine territory, yielding five hundred solidi; the Urban estate in the Antian territory, yielding two hundred and forty solidi; the Sentilian estate in the Ardeatine territory, yielding two hundred and forty solidi; the estate of Castis in the Catenan territory, yielding one thousand solidi; the estate of Trapeae in the Catinan territory, yielding one thousand six hundred and fifty solidi; two censers of the purest gold, weighing thirty pounds; a gift of spices before the altars, one hundred and fifty pounds each year.

The holy font, where Augustus Constantine was baptized, made of porphyry stone and covered on every side, within and without and above, with the purest silver, and as much as holds the water, of three thousand and eight pounds. In the midst of the font a porphyry column which bears a golden bowl where the candle is, weighing fifty-two pounds of the purest gold, where in the days of Easter there burns balsam to the amount of two hundred pounds, with a wick made of asbestos tow. On the rim of the baptismal font a golden lamb pouring forth water, weighing thirty pounds; at the right of the lamb, the Savior of the purest silver, five feet high, weighing one hundred and seventy pounds; at the left of the lamb, the blessed John the Baptist of silver, five feet high, holding a written inscription which has this:

BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD, BEHOLD HIM WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD, weighing one hundred and twenty-five pounds; seven silver stags pouring forth water, each weighing eighty pounds; a censer of the purest gold with forty-nine green gems, weighing fifteen pounds. A gift to the holy font: the estate of Festus, prefect of the sacred bedchamber, which Augustus Constantine gave, in the Praenestine territory, yielding three hundred solidi; the estate of Gaba in the Gabine territory, yielding two hundred and two solidi; the estate of Pictae in the aforesaid territory, yielding two hundred and five solidi; the Statilian estate in the territory of Cora, yielding three hundred solidi; the estate of Taurana within Sicily, in the Panormitan territory, yielding five hundred solidi; within the city of Rome, houses or storehouses, yielding two thousand three hundred solidi; the estate of Bassus, yielding one hundred and twenty solidi;

the estate of Laninae in the Carseolan territory, yielding two hundred solidi; the estate of Caculae in the Nomentan territory, yielding fifty solidi; the Statian estate in the Sabine territory, yielding three hundred and fifty solidi; the estate of Murinae in the Appian-Albanense territory, yielding three hundred solidi; the estate of Virgo in the territory of Cora, yielding two hundred solidi; overseas, within the parts of Africa: the estate of Iuncis in the Mucarian territory, yielding eight hundred solidi; the estate of Capsis in the Capsitan territory, yielding six hundred solidi; the estate of Varia Sardana in the Mimnensian territory, yielding five hundred solidi; the estate of Camarae in the territory of Cryptalupus, yielding four hundred and five solidi; the estate of Numas in the territory of Numidia, yielding six hundred and fifty solidi; the Sulphurous estate in the territory of Numidia, yielding seven hundred and twenty solidi;

the oil-producing estate of Walzari in the territory of Numidia, yielding eight hundred and ten solidi; in the Greek lands: the Cephalinian estate, yielding five hundred solidi; in Mengaulum: the estate of Amazon, yielding two hundred and twenty-two solidi. At the same time Augustus Constantine built a basilica to the blessed apostle Peter in the temple of Apollo, whose coffin with the body of Saint Peter he enclosed thus: he sealed the coffin itself on every side with Cyprian bronze, so that it is immovable: at the head, five feet; at the feet, five feet; at the right side, five feet; at the left side, five feet; beneath, five feet; above, five feet; thus he enclosed and laid away the body of the blessed apostle Peter. And he adorned it above with porphyry columns and other vine-wreathed columns, which he brought from the Greek lands.

He made also the vault of the basilica gleaming with gold leaf, and over the body of the blessed Peter, above the bronze with which he had sealed it, he made a cross of the purest gold, weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, on the place of measurement, where this is written: CONSTANTINE AUGUSTUS AND HELENA AUGUSTA SURROUND THIS ROYAL HOUSE, A HALL GLEAMING WITH LIKE RADIANCE, written in black-inlaid letters on the cross itself. He made also four candelabra of orichalcum, ten feet high, inset with silver with silver figures of the Acts of the Apostles, each weighing three hundred pounds; three golden chalices with green and hyacinth gems, each having forty-five gems, each weighing twelve pounds; two silver vats, weighing two hundred pounds; twenty silver chalices, each weighing ten pounds;

two golden flagons, each weighing ten pounds; five silver flagons, each weighing twenty pounds; a golden paten with a tower, of the purest gold with a dove, adorned with green and hyacinth gems which number two hundred and fifteen pearls, weighing thirty pounds; five silver patens, each weighing fifteen pounds; a golden crown before the body, which is a lamp-chandelier, with fifty dolphins, which weighs thirty-five pounds; thirty-two silver lamps in the nave of the basilica with dolphins, each weighing ten pounds; on the right of the basilica, thirty silver lamps, each weighing eight pounds; the altar itself of silver overlaid with gold, adorned all around with green and hyacinth and white gems, the number of gems being four hundred, weighing three hundred and fifty pounds;

a censer of the purest gold adorned all around with gems numbering sixty, weighing fifteen pounds. Likewise as income, the gift which Constantine Augustus offered to the blessed apostle Peter throughout the diocese of the East: in the city of Antioch: the house of Datianus, yielding two hundred and forty solidi; a small house in Caene, yielding twenty solidi and a third; cells in Aphrodisia, yielding twenty solidi; a bath in Cerateae, yielding forty-two solidi; a bakery in the same place, yielding twenty-three solidi; a tavern in the same place, yielding ten solidi; the garden of Maro, yielding ten solidi; a garden in the same place, yielding eleven solidi; below the city of Antioch: the property of Sybilles, given to Augustus, yielding three hundred and twenty-two solidi, one hundred and fifty decads of papyrus, two hundred pounds of spices, two hundred pounds of spikenard oil, thirty-five pounds of balsam;

below the city of Alexandria: the property of Timialica, given by Ambrosius to Augustus Constantine, yielding six hundred and twenty solidi, three hundred decads of papyrus, three hundred pounds of spikenard oil, sixty pounds of balsam, one hundred and fifty pounds of spices, fifty pounds of Isaurian storax; the property of Euthymus the lapsed, yielding five hundred solidi, seventy decads of papyrus; throughout Egypt, below the city of Armenia: the property of Agapus, which he gave to Augustus Constantine; the property of Passinopolis, yielding eight hundred solidi, four hundred decads of papyrus, fifty medimni of pepper, one hundred pounds of saffron, one hundred and fifty pounds of storax, two hundred pounds of cassia spice, three hundred pounds of spikenard oil, one hundred pounds of balsam, one hundred sacks of flax, one hundred and fifty pounds of cloves, one hundred pounds of Cyprian oil, one thousand bundles of clean papyrus rolls; the property which Hybromius gave to Constantine Augustus, yielding

four hundred and fifty solidi, two hundred decads of papyrus, fifty pounds of cassia spice, two hundred pounds of spikenard oil, fifty pounds of balsam; in the province of Euphratensis, below the city of Cyrus: the property of Armanazon, yielding three hundred and eighty solidi; the property of Obaria, yielding two hundred and sixty solidi. At the same time Augustus Constantine, at the suggestion of bishop Silvester, built a basilica to the blessed apostle Paul, whose body he likewise laid away in bronze and enclosed as he had the blessed Peter's; to which basilica he offered this gift: below Tarsus of Cilicia, the island of Gordian, yielding eight hundred solidi. For all the sacred vessels of gold or silver or bronze he placed there just as in the basilica of the blessed apostle Peter, so also he ordained for the blessed apostle Paul. Moreover he placed a golden cross over the place of the blessed apostle Paul, weighing

one hundred and fifty pounds. Below the city of Tyre: the property of the Counts, yielding five hundred and fifty solidi; the property of Tymia, yielding two hundred and fifty solidi; the property of Fronimusa, yielding seven hundred solidi, seventy pounds of spikenard oil, fifty pounds of spices, fifty pounds of cassia; below the Egyptian city: the property of Cyrios, yielding seven hundred and ten solidi, seventy pounds of spikenard oil, thirty pounds of balsam, seventy pounds of spices, thirty pounds of storax, one hundred and fifty pounds of stacte; the property of Basilea, yielding five hundred and fifty solidi, fifty pounds of spices, sixty pounds of spikenard oil, twenty pounds of balsam, sixty pounds of saffron; the property of the island of Maccabes, yielding five hundred and ten solidi, five hundred bundles of clean papyrus, three hundred sacks of flax.

At the same time Constantine Augustus built a basilica in the Sessorian palace, where he also enclosed in gold and gems wood of the holy Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, and where he dedicated the name of the church, which to this present day is called Jerusalem; in which place he established this gift: candelabra before the holy wood which shine, of silver, four, according to the number of the four Gospels, each weighing eighty pounds; fifty silver lamp-chandeliers, each weighing fifteen pounds; a cup of gold, weighing ten pounds; five golden ministerial chalices, each weighing one pound; three silver cups, each weighing eight pounds; ten silver ministerial chalices, each weighing two pounds; a golden paten, weighing ten pounds;

a silver paten overlaid with gold with gems, weighing fifty pounds; a silver altar, weighing two hundred and fifty pounds; three silver flagons, each weighing twenty pounds; and he gave as a gift to the church all the lands next to that palace; likewise the property of Sponsae on the Labican Way, yielding two hundred and sixty-three solidi; below the city of Laurentum, the property of Fatrae, yielding one hundred and twenty solidi; below the city of Nepi, the property of Anglesis, yielding one hundred and fifty solidi; below the aforesaid city, the property of Terega, which yields one hundred and sixty solidi; below the city of Falerii, the property of Nymphae, yielding one hundred and fifteen solidi; likewise below the city of Falerii the property of Hercules, which he gave to Augustus and Augustus offered to the church of Jerusalem, yielding one hundred and forty solidi; below the city of Tuder, the property of Angulae, yielding one hundred and fifty-three solidi.

At the same time he built a basilica to the holy martyr Agnes at the request of his daughter, and a baptistery in the same place, where his sister Constantia was baptized together with the daughter of Augustus by bishop Silvester, where he also established this gift: a paten of the purest gold, weighing twenty pounds; a golden chalice, weighing ten pounds; a crown, a lamp-chandelier of the purest gold with thirty dolphins, weighing fifteen pounds; two silver patens, each weighing twenty pounds; five silver chalices, each weighing ten pounds; thirty silver lamp-chandeliers, each weighing eight pounds; forty lamp-chandeliers of orichalcum; forty stands of orichalcum inset with silver and sealed; a golden lamp of twelve wicks over the font, weighing fifteen pounds; and a gift as income:

around the city of Figlinae all the land, yielding one hundred and sixty solidi; on the Salarian Way below the ruined walls all the land of holy Agnes, yielding one hundred and five solidi; the field of Mucius, yielding eighty solidi; the property of the Vicus of Piso, yielding two hundred and fifty solidi; the field of Casulae, yielding one hundred solidi. At the same time he built a basilica to the blessed martyr Laurentius on the Tiburtine Way in the Verano field, above the sandpit of the crypt, and as far as the body of the holy martyr Laurentius he made steps for ascent and descent. In which place he constructed an apse and adorned it with porphyry marbles, and above the place he covered it with silver, and adorned the railings with the purest silver, which weigh one thousand pounds; and before that place in the crypt he placed: a lamp of the purest gold of ten wicks, weighing

twenty pounds; a crown of the purest silver with fifty dolphins, weighing thirty pounds; two bronze candelabra ten feet high, each weighing two hundred pounds; before the body of the blessed martyr Laurentius, silver-overlaid panels with figures of his passion, with two-wicked silver lamps, each weighing fifteen pounds. The gift which he offered: a golden paten, weighing twenty pounds; two silver patens, weighing thirty pounds; a cup of the purest gold, weighing fifteen pounds; two silver cups, each weighing ten pounds; ten silver ministerial chalices, each weighing two pounds; two silver flagons, each weighing ten pounds; thirty silver lamps, each weighing twenty pounds; a silver vat, weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, holding two medimni; in the same place:

the property of a certain Cyriaca, a religious woman, which the fisc had seized in the time of persecution, the Veranum estate, yielding one hundred and sixty solidi; the property of Aqua Tutia adjacent, yielding one hundred and fifty-three solidi; the property of Augustus in the Sabine territory, yielding to the name of the Christians one hundred and twenty solidi; the property of the Sulphurous springs, yielding sixty-six solidi; the property of the Micinae of Augustus, yielding one hundred and ten solidi; the property of Termulae, yielding sixty solidi; the property of Aranae, yielding seventy solidi; the property of Septimitum, yielding one hundred and thirty solidi.

26. In the same times Augustus Constantine built a basilica to the blessed martyrs Marcellinus the presbyter and Peter the exorcist, in the estate between the Two Laurels, and the mausoleum where his mother Helena Augusta was buried, on the Via Labicana, at the third milestone. In which place, both for love of his mother and for veneration of the saints, he placed the gifts of his vow: a paten of purest gold, weighing 35 pounds; silver candlesticks overlaid with gold, on feet, 12 of one kind and 4 of another, each weighing 200 pounds; a golden crown which is a chandelier with 120 dolphins, weighing 30 pounds; 3 golden chalices, each weighing 10 pounds, with green and hyacinth gems; 2 golden ewers, each weighing 60 pounds; an altar of purest silver, weighing

200 pounds, before the tomb of blessed Helena Augusta, which tomb is carved out of porphyry stone with figures; 20 silver chandeliers, each weighing 20 pounds. 27. Likewise in the basilica of Saints Peter and Marcellinus he gave a gift: an altar of purest silver, weighing 200 pounds; 2 patens of purest gold, each weighing 15 pounds; 2 silver patens, each weighing 15 pounds; a larger scyphus of purest gold, on which the name of Augustus is inscribed, weighing 20 pounds; a smaller golden scyphus, weighing 10 pounds; 5 silver scyphi, each weighing 12 pounds; 20 silver service chalices, each weighing 3 pounds; 4 silver ewers, each weighing 15 pounds; each year 900 pounds of pure nard oil, and of balsam