St. Fulgentius, Bishop of Ruspe (+533), in North Africa, in his Epistle to Monimus, speaks concerning the question of the Epiclesis then present in the variant of the Orthodox Western Liturgy in the North African rite at the time:
"Now that question has come around to us concerning the mission of the Holy Spirit: If a Sacrifice is Offered to the Holy Trinity, why is the sending of the Holy Spirit only asked for, for the sanctifying of the gift of our oblation, as if (so to speak) God the Father Himself, from Whom the Holy Spirit Proceeds, could not Sanctify the Sacrifice Offered to Him; or the Son Himself was unable to Sanctify the Sacrifice of His Body which we Offer, since He Sanctified His Body Which He Offered to Redeem us; or that the Holy Spirit was to be sent to Consecrate the Sacrifice of the Church, as if the Father or the Son was missing from the Sacrifices?"
What is important to note here is that in North Africa at the time an invocation of the Holy Ghost upon the oblation during the Anaphora was considered a normative thing.
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