II. The second part begins with two illustrated essays on early Christian
churches and their ornaments. E. Kitzinger discusses floor mosaics at
Antioch and Bethlehem, in which crosses, or Solomon's knots deputiz-
ing for them, were placed on the threshold of a sanctuary as apotropaic
devices; and J. M. C. Toynbee describes the early Christian paintings at
Santa Maria in Stelle, near Verona.
2. Under the heading 'Liturgical Feasts and Colors': E. Sauser
describes the concept of the Paschal Mystery expressed in the so-called
'Passionssarkophagen' (8 pp.,illustrated); J. Danielou discusses Gregory
of Nyssa's Sermon on the Ascension, which is apparently the earliest
known relating to that feast, and which he dates in 388 (4 pp.); R. E.
McNally shows how the Three Kings were represented in early Irish
Latin writings (23 pp.); J. A. Jungmann shows how phrases drawn from
Marius Victorinus appear in Alcuin and pass over into the Roman
Breviary office for Trinity Sunday (6 pp.); and A. C. Rush discusses the
liturgical colours used in the Liturgy of the Dead (10 pp.: 'The leaders
of the Christian Church in the patristic period denounced mourning
black . . . In the medieval period . . . black was chosen as the . . . con-
ventional color . . . In the Church of the present. . . the rigid require-
ment of black is a thing of the past').
3. There follow three sections devoted respectively to The Liturgy
of Baptism, The Liturgy of the Word, and The Liturgy of the Eucharist.
Under the first heading: B. Neunheuser discusses recent work on the
origins of the baptismal liturgy (14 pp.); P. T. Camelot compares the
baptismal theology of Cyril of Jerusalem's Catechesis iii with that of his
(?) Mystagogical Catechesis ii; the latter is more developed and may well
belong to a later epoch than Cyril's own (5 pp.); and M. Harl examines
Gregory of Nyssa's interpretation of the phrase 'From glory to glory' in
relation to baptism (6 pp.).
4. A. Olivar inquires whether prepared or improvised sermons pre-
dominated in the Greek and Latin Fathers down to Severus of Antioch
and Gregory the Great (31 pp. in Spanish). O. Heiming introduces and
describes a Jacobite double lectionary of 824 attested by the manuscripts