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The next day the promised commemoration of Chalcedon took place.

Again as the patriarch made his processional entrance and approached the pulpit clamours arose: " Restore the relics of Macedonius to the church!

Restore those exiled for the faith!

Let the bones of the Nestorians be dug up!

Let the bones of the Eutychians be dug up!

Cast out the Manichees!

Place the four councils in the diptychs!

Place Leo, bishop of Rome, in the diptychs!

Bring the diptychs to the pulpit !".

This kind of cry continuing, the patriarch replied, " Yesterday we did what was enough to satisfy my dear people, and we shall do the same to-day.

We must take the faith as our inviolable foundation ; it will aid us to reunite the churches.

Let us then glorify with one mouth the holy and consubstantial Trinity ".

But the people went on crying madly, " This instant, let none go out!

I abjure you, shut the doors!

You no longer fear Amantius the Manichee!

Justin reigns, why fear Amantius ?".

So they continued.

The patriarch tried in vain to bring them to reason.

It was the outburst of enthusiasm and excitement long pent up under heterodox repression.

It bore all before it.

The patriarch was at last obliged to have inserted in the diptychs the four councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon, and the names of Euphemius and Macedonius, patriarchs of Constantinople, and Leo, bp.

of Rome.

Then the multitude chanted for more than an hour, " Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He hath visited and redeemed His people !".

The choir assembled on the raised platform, and, turning eastwards, sang the Trisagion, the whole people listening in silence.

When the moment arrived for the recitation of the names of the defunct bishops from the diptychs, the multitude closed in silence about the holy table ; and when the deacon had read the new insertions, a mighty shout arose, " Glory be to Thee, O Lord!