Sabbath in Scotland in the time of St. Margaret (Turgot, Bishop of St. Andrews; Forbes-Leith, tr., Life of St. Margaret Queen of Scotland, 1884)

Text: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:8-11

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   It was another custom of theirs to neglect the reverence due to the Lord's Day by devoting themselves to every kind of worldly business upon it just as they did upon other days. That this was contrary to the law, she proved to them as well by reason as by authority. "Let us venerate the Lord's day," said she, "because of the resurrection of our Lord, which happened upon that day, and let us no longer do servile works upon it; bearing in mind that upon this day we were redeemed from the slavery of the devil. The blessed Pope Gregory affirms the same, saying: 'We must cease from earthly labour upon the Lord's Day and we must devote ourselves entirely to prayer, so that upon the day of our Lord's resurrection we may make expiations for such negligence as we may have committed during the six days.' " [...]

[...] and from this time forward these prudent men paid such respect to her earnestness that no one dared on these days either to carry any burdens himself or to compel another to do so.

Turgot, Bishop of St. Andrews; Forbes-Leith, William, tr., Life of St. Margaret Queen of Scotland, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1884, pp. 49-51.

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