Early Monastic Sabbath Observance

Historical Account★★★

In this latter instance they [the ] seem to have followed a custom of which we find traces in the early monastic by which they held Saturday to be the Sabbath on which they rested from all their labors.

— William Forbes Skene

W.T. Skene, Adamnan’s Life of St. Columba, 1874, 96.

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A historical note from W.T. Skene's 1874 book suggests that early monastic communities observed Saturday as the Sabbath day of rest.

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