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
Without noticing every saint to whom each day is dedicated in the
Roman catholic calendars, the names of saints will be given day by
day, as they stand under each day in the last edition of their
“Lives,” by the Rev. Alban Butler, in 12 vols. 8vo. On the authority
of that work the periods will be mentioned when the saints most noted
for their miracles flourished, and some of those miracles be stated.
Other miracles will be given: First, from “The Golden Legend,” a black
letter folio volume, printed by W. de Worde.--Secondly, from “The
Church History of Britain,” by the Benedictine father, S. Cressy,
dedicated by him to the queen consort of Charles II., a folio, printed
in 1668.--Thirdly, from the catholic translation of the “Lives of the
Saints,” by the Rev. Father Peter Ribadeneira, priest of the society
of Jesus, second edition, London, 1730, 2 vols. folio; and Fourthly,
from other sources which will be named. By this means the reader will
be acquainted with legends that rendered the saints and the
celebration of their festivals popular. For example, the saints in
Butler’s Lives on this day occur in the following order:
_St. Fulgentius; St. Odilo, or Olou; St. Almachus, or Telemachus; St.
Eugendus, or Oyend; St. Fanchea, or Faine; St. Mochua, or Moncain, alias
Claunus; St. Mochua, alias Cronan, of Balla_.
_Sts. Mochua._ According to Butler, these were Irish saints. One founded
the monastery, now the town of Balla, in Connaught. The other is said to
have founded 120 cells, and thirty churches, in one of which he passed
thirty years, and died about the sixth century. Bishop Patrick, in his
“Reflexions upon the Devotions of the Roman Church,” 1674, 8vo. cites of
St. Mochua, that while walking and praying, and seeing a company of
lambs running hastily to suck their mothers, he drew a line upon the
ground which none of the hungry lambs durst pass. Patrick again cites,
that St. Mochua having been visited by St. Kyenanus and fifteen of his
clergy, they came to an impetuous and impassable river on their return,
and wanted a boat; whereupon St. Mochua spread his mantle on the water,
and Kyenanus with his fifteen priests were carried safely over upon the
mantle, which floated back again to St. Mochua without wrinkle or
wetting.
_St. Fanchea_, or _Faine_, is said by Butler to have been an Irish saint
of the sixth century. Patrick quotes that St. Endeus desiring to become
a monk, his companions approached to dissuade him; but, upon the prayers
of St. Faine, and her making the sign of the cross, their feet stuck to
the earth like immovable stones, until by repentance they were loosed
and went their way.
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