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The Jewish scriptures suggest that plants were provided as food for animals, and so plants at least must have died in the garden of Eden. The death introduced by the fall (Rom 5:12), apparently did not apply to plants.
S Caesarius condemned the old tradition of observing Thursday as Thor’s or Jove’s day, and therefore a weekly holiday, because the Christians were trying to replace it with Sunday. Even until the time of Gregory II in the eighth century no stations or masses were appointed for a Thursday, even in Lent. Caesarius preached against those “wretched people who, in honour of Jove, will do no work on Thursdays, though beyond doubt they are deterred neither by shame nor fear from working on Sundays”. He recommended flogging those who would not desist. All of it is recorded in J-P Migne, PL.
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