day
are still shown the couch on which he reposed while giving his singing
lessons; and the whip with which he threatened the boys is still
preserved and venerated as a relic, as well as his authentic
Antiphoner. By a clause inserted in his deed of gift, he laid down
under pain of anathema that these estates should be divided between the
two portions of the School in payment for the daily service."--(_Patr.
Lat._, lxxv., 90.)

This extract may be taken to prove that--

1. In 872 at Rome Gregory I. was believed to be the author of the
Antiphoner which bears his name.

2. The Schola Cantorum looked upon Gregory I. as its founder and
endower.

3. The Schola was still believed to possess his "authenticum
Antiphonarium" and certain other objects connected in the popular mind
with the memory of what Gregory had done for the cause of the
ecclesiastical chant.

It is certainly an important point that the Schola itself attributed its
foundation to Gregory I. Such a tradition would be carefully preserved in
an important corporation like this.

A further witness to the existence of St. Gregory's couch is to be found
in _Notitia Ecclesiarum Urbis Romae_, an itinerary assigned by de Rossi to
the seventh century, (de Rossi, _Rom. Sot._, _vol._ i., _pp._ 138-143.)

II.--Pope Leo IV. (847-855) to the Abbot Honoratus, _Ex registro Leonis
IIII_. "There is something quite incredible, the sound of which has
reached our ears: a thing which, if true, tends rather to diminish our
consideration than to give it honour, to obscure it rather than to give
it lustre. It appears in short that you feel nothing but aversion for
the beautiful chant of St. Gregory, and for the manner of singing and
reading laid down and taught by him in the Church, so that you are in
disagreement on this point not only with the Holy See, which is near to
you, but also with almost the whole Western Church, with all who use
Latin to offer their praises to the Eternal King and pay Him the
tribute of harmonious sounds.

"All these Churches have received with so much eagerness and ardent
affection this tradition of Gregory, and after having received it
unreservedly they find so much pleasure in it, that even now they apply
to us for more of it, thinking that perhaps something more which they
do not know of, may have been preserved among us. This Holy Pope
Gregory, a servant of God and a famous preacher