Quasi modo geniti infantes, rationabile,
sine dolo lac concupiscite ut in eo crescatis in salutem
si gustastis quoniam dulcis Dominus.
Quasimodo Sunday has a certain indirect literary fame, in that it is the holy day that gave its name to the central character of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In the story, a little deformed baby is left on the steps of the Cathedral of Notre Dame on Quasimodo Sunday; and the theme of the verses that open that Sunday haunts the rest of the tale.