Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

attacked the Roman Catholic Church on a number
of points, including fasting on the Sabbath. Now
the haughty Cardinal Humbert comes into the
picture. While Lanfranc was assailing Berengarius,
and Cardinal Damian was preparing to gather
Waldensian territory into the fold, the pope sent
three legates to Constantinople with
countercharges. Amongst others, the following
charge was made by the pope against the Greek
Church: “Because you observe the Sabbath with
the Jews and the Lord’s Day with us, you seem to
imitate with such observances the sect of
Nazarenes who in this manner accept Christianity
in order that they be not obliged to leave
Judaism.”[47] Enraged at his failure to bring the
Greek Church under subjection, Humbert declared
it excommunicated. He found that the leading
bishops of the East sided with the Greek patriarch.
The gulf between these two communions was final.
The following quotation from John Mason
Neale will reveal the difference in attitude toward
the Sabbath between the Greek and the Latin
Church: “The observance of Saturday is, as
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