[73] The example of Rome and Constantinople confirmed the faith and discipline of the Catholic world.

The honors of the saints and martyrs, after a feeble and ineffectual murmur of profane reason, [74] were universally established; and in the age of Ambrose and Jerom, something was still deemed wanting to the sanctity of a Christian church, till it had been consecrated by some portion of holy relics, which fixed and inflamed the devotion of the faithful.
[Footnote 68: See Eunapius, in the Life of the sophist Aedesius; in that of Eustathius he foretells the ruin of Paganism.] [Footnote 69: Caius, (apud Euseb.Hist.Eccles.l.ii.

c.

25,) a Roman presbyter, who lived in the time of Zephyrinus, (A.D.

202-219,) is an early witness of this superstitious practice.] [Footnote 70: Chrysostom.