"After the persecution of the Emperor , Gregory Bishop of in Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs)."
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Isaac Newton, in Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel, and the apocalypse of ..., Volume 1, p. 204
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