[Footnote 87: Compare Procopius (Hist. Arcan. c. 28, and
Aleman's Notes) with Theophanes, (Chron. p. 190.) The
council of Nice has intrusted the patriarch, or rather the
astronomers, of Alexandria, with the annual proclamation of
Easter; and we still read, or rather we do not read, many of
the Paschal epistles of St. Cyril. Since the reign of
Monophytism in Egypt, the Catholics were perplexed by such a
foolish prejudice as that which so long opposed, among the
Protestants, the reception of the Gregorian style.]