Chapter XXVII.
Why Lent is kept by very many with a different number of
days.
Further
, as for what you say;
viz., that in some countries Lent is kept in different ways, i.e., for
six or seven weeks, it is but one system and the same manner of the
fast that is preserved by the different observance of the weeks. For
those who think one ought to fast also on the Saturday, have determined
on the observance of six weeks. They therefore fast for six days out of
the seven, and this being six times repeated makes up the six and
thirty days. It is therefore, as we said, but one system and the same
manner of the fast, although there seems to be a difference in the
number of the weeks.