There are some traces of the Sabbath among those Christians who separated from the Catholic communion, or were never embraced in it. The Greek church separated from them about the middle of the eleventh century, and had a larger extent of empire than the papists. According to _Brerewood's Enquiries_, p. 128, this church solemnized Saturday festivals, and forbade as unlawful to fast on any Saturday except in Lent, retaining the custom followed before their separation. The same author states that the Syrian Christians, who composed a numerous body in the East, celebrated divine worship solemnly on both the Sabbath and first day, continuing the custom of the Roman church at the time they separated from that community. _Sandy's Travels_, p. 173, speak of a Christian empire in Ethiopia that celebrate both Saturday and Sunday, "that they have divers errors and many ancient truths." The Abyssinian Christians, another numerous body, are represented as being similar in some respects to the Papists; and _Purchase_ speaks of them as "subject to Peter and Paul, and especially to Christ," and as observing the Saturday Sabbath. They are also mentioned by _Brerewood_. _Mosheim_ mentions a sect of Christians in the twelfth century, in Lombardy, called _Pasaginians_, charged with circumcising their followers, and keeping the Jewish Sabbath. _Mr. Benedict_ considers the account of their practicing the bloody rite a slander charged on them on account of their keeping the Jewish Sabbath. _Binius_ says that in 1555 there were Christians in Rome who kept the Sabbath, and were therefore called _Sabbatarii_, and they are represented as differing in other respects from the Romanists. Many of the Armenian Christians are believed to observe the ancient Sabbath. _Dr. Buchanan_, in his Researches, when speaking of those of them who are settled in the East Indies, says, "Their doctrines are, as far as the author knows, the doctrines of the Bible. Besides this, they maintain the solemn observation of Christian worship throughout our empire on the seventh day."