i.e. Friday, the old Jewish term being still retained and widely used, although with the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week it had entirely lost its meaning. Upon the prevalence of the word among the Fathers as a designation of Friday, see Suicer’s Thesaurus, s.v. παρασκευή and νηστεῖα. The day of Christ’s crucifixion was called μεγ€λη παρασκευή, the “great preparation.”