CHAPTER XX

THE EPISTLES OF DIONYSIUS, ON FESTIVALS, IN WHICH HE GIVES THE CANON ON THE PASSOVER

BESIDES these epistles, the same Dionysius, about this time, also composed others, called his Festival Epistles, in which he discourses much in praise of the festival of the Passover. One of these he addressed to Flavius, another to Domitius and Didymus, in which also he gives the canon for eight years, showing that it is not proper to observe the paschal festival before the vernal equinox was past. Beside these, he composed another epistle, addressed to his compresbyters at Alexandria. Also to several others, and these during the prevalence of the persecution.