An Ancient
Introduction.
(
Found in Dionysius Exiguus
, Codex Can.
Migne
, Pat. Lat., Tom. lxvii., col. 182.)
After the consulate of the most glorious emperors,
Honorus for the twelfth time and Theodosius for the eighth time,
Augustuses, on the VIII. before the Calends of June at Carthage, in the
Secretarium of the basilica of Faustus, when Pope Aurelius had sat
down, together with Valentine of the primatial see of the province of
Numidia, and Faustinus of the Potentine Church, of the Italian province
Picenum, a legate of the Roman Church, and also with legates of the
different African provinces, that is to say, of the two Numidias, of
Byzacena, of Mauritania Cæsariensis, as well as of Tripoli, and
with Vincent Colositanus, Fortunatian, and other bishops of the
proconsular province, in all two hundred and seventeen, also with
Philip and Asellus, presbyters and legates of the Roman Church, and
while the deacons were standing by, Aurelius the bishop said, etc.,
ut infra
.