elm's tide. 105 



APRIL 14. St. Lidwina, virgin, a.d. 1433. 

 St. Tiburtius, &c. martyrs, a.d. 229. 

 SS. Carpus, Papylus, and Agathodorus,mm.in 251. 

 SS. Antony, John, and Eustachius, mm. 1342. 

 St. Benezet, patron of Avignon, 1184. 



Obs. St. Lidwina or Lidwyd, as she is called, was bora at 

 Squidam in Holland, and was distinguished by an early devotion to 

 the Blessed Virgin. She made the vow of perpetual virginity at 

 twelve years of age. She fell and hurt herself while skating on the 

 canals, and died a martyr to a dreadful internal complaint, which it 

 brought on in 1433. 



The holy martyrs Tiburtius and others have always been held in 

 singular veneration in the church. Valerian was espoused to St. 

 Cicely, and converted by her to the faith, and with her he became 

 the instrument of the conversion of his brother Tiburtius. Maximus, 

 the officer appointed to attend their execution, followed their exam- 

 ple, and received with them the crown of martyrdom in the year 229. 



Borage Borago officinalis flowers. 



Borage is one of the natural order Luridae: it has a fine bright 

 light blue flower, which now opens in mild years on the old last 

 year's plants ; they go on flowering all the summer. When this 

 plant once gets into the ground there is no such thing as getting it 

 out again ; although an annual or biennial at most, if the plants be 

 all cut up before seeding time, the plant will yet spring up again in 

 the ground ; hence the proverb. Ego Borago gaudvt semper ago, 

 translated into, " I Borage always give courage." 



The spring flight of pigeons now takes place. 



In the Ftorilegiuni Div. Asp, we may read :— As Borage when 

 once its seeds be sown in the soil of the garden will ever keep coming 

 up and flowering afresh, first in this place and then in that, in spite 

 of every tryal to destroy it ; so ought our holie religion, when the 

 seeds of faith be once set in the soil of our hearts, to grow up and 

 flourish under all oppression and persecution, and, like Borage, the 

 more it be beat down or levelled, the moie it should spring up and 

 flourish, till in diverse and sundry places it shall have shed forthe 

 seeds of salvacioun. 



The Cuckoo has been heard as early as today, and in Sussex 

 about Heathfield it is called Cuckoo Day. 



