24 Paul's tide. 



JAN. 24. St. Timothy, bishop and martyr, a.d. 97. 



St. Suranus, abbot in Umbria. 



St. Babylas, bishop of Antioch in 250. 



St. Macedonius, anchoret in Syria. 



St. Csidoc.— Vigil of St. Paul. 



Obs. St. Timothy was disciple of St. Paul, and by him made 

 Bishop of Ephesus in the year 64. He was stoned to death during 

 the time of the Emperor JS'erva, while St. John was still in the isle 

 of Patmos. St. Jerom, St. Paulinus, and St. Chrysostom, relate 

 that many miracles were performed by the relics of St. Timothy, 

 which were conveyed to Constantinople in 356. 



The Stalkless Moss Phascum vmticum fructifies. 



It seems that what is called Timothy Grass Pkleum pratense 

 was named after this saint, but wherefore we have not been able to 

 discover. 



The weather at this time of year is usually very cold, and the 

 ground often under snow. Birds now begin to be much distressed 

 for want of food, and a great variety of them flock to the farm-yards 

 for food and shelter, and frequently come close to our windows in 

 search of crumbs of bread, and of which the following lines, in the 

 Spencerean style, recorded in some Calendars on the 24th of 

 January, remind us : 



On St. Paul's Eve. 

 AVinter's white shrowd doth cover all the grounde, 



And Caecias blows his bitter blaste of woe; 

 The ponds and pooies, and streams in ice are bounde, 



And famished birds are shivering in the snowe. 

 Still round about the house they flitting goe, 



And at the windows seek for scraps of foode 

 AMiich charity with hand profuse doth throwe. 

 Right weeting that in need of it they stoode. 

 For charity is shewn by working creatures' goode. 



The Sparowe pert, the Chafiinch gay and cleane, 

 The Redbreast welcome to the cotter's house. 

 The livelie blue Tomtit, the Oxeye greene. 



The dingie Dunnock, and swart Colemouse; 

 The Titmouse of the marsh, tlie nimble Wrenne, 



The Bullfinch and the Goldspink, with the King 

 Of Birds, the Goldcrest. The Tiirush, now and then 

 The Blackbird, wont to whistle in the spring. 

 Like Christians seek the heavenlie ioode St. Paul doth brmg. 



Catholic Friend, No. 1, p. 16. 

 Several birds, as the Thrush, the Blackbird, the Robin, and the 

 Wren, are now already singing. 



In the evening of this day in 1827 a remarkable luminous pheno- 

 menon, like the Zodiacal Light, was seen in Sussex, but it differed 

 in having a cross or transverse bar. 



