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APRIL 7. St. Apiiraastes, anchoret, in 4th age. 

 St. Hegesippus. 

 St. Albert, recluse. 

 B, Herman Joseph, confessor. 

 St. Final), of Ireland. 



Natalis Apollinis, Socratis, et Platonis.—i\i\\z.n Cal. 



Ob$. Saint Aphraastes was descended from an illustrious family, 

 but infected with the superstitions of idolatry ; he had the happiness of 

 attainin"- to an early knowledge of the truth, which he embraced with 

 his whofe heart. Regardless of honours and worldly advantages, he 

 left his friends and country to shut himself up in a little cell without 

 the walls of Edessa in JMesopotamia : he left his retreat to come to 

 the assistance of the distressed Catholics of Antioch. After assuaging 

 the fury of their heretical persecutors, our saint returned to his 

 solitude, and there happily departed this life to possess heaven.— 

 Butler. 



Wood Anemone Anemone nemorosa flowers. 



The little white bells of this Wood Anemone or Windflower, begin 

 now to be seen quivering to the vernal breezes, and covering large 

 tracts of marshy pasture land, as well as moist woods. It usually 

 blows at the same time with Wood Sorrel, which we shall hereafter 

 describe. The Marsh Marigold Caltha palastris is also now in full 

 flower, and the banks and waste places begin to be covered with a 

 beautiful profusion of Primroses and Violets, \\ hich mix very agreeably 

 to<^ether, and in parts of Sussex are so numerous as to appear on the 

 baliks at a small distance like a particoloured mantle thrown over 

 them. Cowshps or Pagels as they are called begin to appear in the 

 meadows. And the blossoms ot fruit trees now become plentiful. 

 The Spring rapidly advancing, every day adds something new to the 

 scene. 



Butterflies become common, that is the Sulphur Butterfly, and the 

 several red sorts. The common Cabbage Butterfly comes later. 



In fine weather in fields and highways we may now perceive 

 numerous sorts of coleopterous and other beetles coming forth, and it 

 has been remarked that many sorts come out first on one and the 

 same day, and are very regular as to their times of coming. 



