'Although the venerable merits of all the saints, most beloved brethren, are for our zeal, yet especially with all our affection is to be venerated the nativity of the glorious and ever-virgin Mother of God, Mary,' etc. It ends: 'You have as helper of your contest this blessed and most glorious Virgin and Mother, under whose protection you may take refuge,' etc. The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary did not begin to be celebrated in the Church until the eighth century; and it has nothing of the Maximian vein, but the author patched it together with childish and insipid sentences. I do not wonder at the ignorance of the copyist, who in the Paris codex 3820 inscribed it to the most eloquent holy prelate of Turin.