8 TWELFTH TIDE. 



JAN. 8. St. Gudula V. Patroness of Brussels, 

 A.D. 660. 

 St. Lucian, archbishop of Beauvais. 

 St. Pega V. of England. St, Severinus. 

 St. Vulsin. St. Nathelan. St. Apollinaris. 



Sacrificium Jani. — Julian Cal. 



Obs. St. Gudula, called in Brabant Goule, and in Flemish 

 (joelen, was the daughter of St. Amalberge : about the year 664 

 she made the vow of perpetual virginity, and lived a very austere 

 life in her early years in her father's house. Siie was unrivalled in 

 her assiduous attention to the wants of the poor, as well as in her 

 constancy to her devotions: she used to go before daybreak to 

 matins at St. Saviour's church at Morzelle, with her maid carrying a 

 lantern before her, and it is related in legendary history that when 

 on one occasion her lantern was blown out by chance, it was miracu- 

 lously lighted again at her prayers, whence this saint is usually 

 drawn with a lantern in her hand. In the Aspirations it is said : 



Even as the Lord dldjight up the candle for thy prayers, O holy St. 

 Gudula, when adverse winds had puffed out thy lamp ; so when the 

 devil shall blow out the lamp of my devotion, light thou it again 

 by the splendour of thy example, and replenish it by the oil of thy 

 perpetual intercession, and be to me as a polestar in the troubled 

 ocean of life and a light in the thorny path that leads to glory. — 

 Florilegium Aspirat. 8. 



The Agonalia were celebrated today in antient Rome. 



Yellow Tremella Tremella deliquescens fructifies. 



This cryptogamous excrescence is found on old palings, decayed 

 posts, and rotten wood, and is easily recognised by its bright orange 

 colour, which shining at a distance, has been called, amidst the 

 various antient emblems of commemoration, St. Gudula's Lamp. 



