History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

the sixth day of the week, as their religious festival.
And thus "the Mahometans and the Romanists
crucified the Sabbath, as the Jews and the Romans
did the Lord of the Sabbath, between two thieves,
the sixth and first day of the week."[17] For
Mahometanism and Romanism each suppressed the
Sabbath over a wide extent of territory. About the
middle of the seventh century, we have further
canons of the church in behalf of Sunday:--
"At Chalons, a city in Burgundy, about the year
654, there was a provincial synod which confirmed
what had been done by the third council of
Orleans, about the observation of the Lord’s Day,
namely that 'none should plow or reap, or do any
other thing belonging to husbandry, on pain of the
censures of the church; which was the more
minded, because backed with the secular power,
and by an edict menacing such as offended herein;
who if bondmen, were to be soundly beaten, but if
free, had three admonitions, and then if faulty, lost
the third part of their patrimony, and if still
obstinate were made slaves for the future. And in
the first year of Eringius, about the time of Pope
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