ST. Paul's tide. 29 



JAN. 29. St. Francis of Sales, bp. &c. a.d. 1622. 

 St. Sulpitius Severus, disciple of St. Martin. 

 St. Gildas the Wise, called Badonicus. 

 St. Gildas of Scotland. 



Obs. St. Francis was bora at Sales, near Anecy, in Swizzerland , 

 his education was principally received from the Jesuits, which 

 accounts for his habitu il activity of mind, and his intense desire to 

 do some act of public or private utility. His letters to Philothea, 

 or Introduction a la Vie Devote, are a masterpiece of eloquence, 

 and bespeak a mind endowed, as his was, with a great power of 

 comparing ideas. St. Francis of Sales was founder of the religious 

 community of Visitantines or the Order of the Visitation, of which 

 there are still several convents. The rule and discipline of this 

 Order is said to be less severe than those of almost any other reli- 

 gious community. 



MoonwortFern Osmunda Lunana fructifies. 



This great fern is found in various parts of England, as in Sussex, 

 near to East Grinstead, and other places : it inhabits forest bogs. 



Procyon or the Lesser Dogstar rises achronically 

 in the east. 



In summer this star is with the Sun, and it was that period 

 to which Horace alludes when he says, in his Ode to the Bandusian 

 Fountain. 



Te flagfrantis atrox hora Caniculae 

 Xescit tangere. 



The achronycal rising, however, of this star, which lakes place 

 today, is marked by weather fiercely cold. 



