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... Strabo (807-849). De Ecclesiasticarum rerum exordiis et incrementis (composed about 840). "The tradition is that St. Gregory, just as he regulated the order of the masses and of consecrations [i.e., the Sacramentary and the Pontifical Rituale] so also had the greatest part in the arrangement of the liturgical chants, following the order which is observed to this day as the most fitting: as is commemorated at the head of the Antiphoner." (Op. cit. ...

— St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music • E. G. P. Wyatt

... The Sacramentary of Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, Egypt, written about 350, provides for the consecration of bread and water, as well as oil, for healing; and in a prayer concerning oil and water there contained, the following words ...

— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten