The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the AlmanacHone, William
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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac
Hone, William
Days; Great Britain -- Social life and customs
not find it till night, when the tooth in the river shone as a radiant
star, and being so discovered was brought to St. Patrick, who on that
spot built a church, and deposited his tooth beneath the altar. Desiring
to pass an impassable river, and no boat being at hand, St. Patrick
prayed, and dividing the river, made himself and followers a free
passage, then “he blessed the river, and being so blessed, it abounded
in fishes above all others.” St. Mel being denounced unjustly to St.
Patrick, and preferring to prove his innocence by a miracle rather than
by an oath, he ploughed up the earth on a certain hill, and took by the
ploughshare many and large fishes out of the dry land; thereupon St.
Patrick absolved him, but lest St. Mel should continue to work miracles
presumptuously, “he bade him that he should thenceforth plough on the
land, and fish in the water.” St. Patrick had a goat, a thief stole it,
and ate it, and when accused, denied it; but the goat bleating in the
stomach of the thief, proclaimed the merit of St. Patrick; and, to
increase the miracle, by the sentence of the saint, all the posterity of
the man were marked with the beard of a goat. St. Patrick having labored
to convert a tyrant, who laughed him to scorn, he immediately converted
the tyrant, against his will, into a fox; which fox went off with a hard
run, and could never be found. Another time being benighted in the open
air, violent rain fell around St. Patrick and his companions, but did
not wet them a drop. On the same night, the driver of his chariot could
not for the darkness find the horses to re-yoke them, on which St.
Patrick, drawing his right hand from his sleeve, and lifting up his
fingers, they “shone even as sun-beams, and wonderfully illumining the
whole country, turned darkness into light, and night into day--then by
the aid of the radiant miracle, the chariot-driver found his steed.”
After the death of St. Patrick, there was no night for twelve days.
These are some of the miracles attributed to St. Patrick by Jocelin,
whose life of him published in “Dublin, Printed for the Hibernia Press
Company, By James Blyth,” is sold in London by Messrs. Keating and
Brown, Catholic Printers and Publishers, No. 38, Duke-street,
Grosvenor-square, in one volume 12mo. containing 264 pages, price 2_s._
6_d._ in boards.
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