214 FORTY DAYS OF ST. SWITIIIK. 



AUG. 1. St. Peter AD ViNcuLA. 



SS. Faith, Hope, and Charity, virgins and martyrs. 



SS. the seven brothers, Machabees, &c. mm. 



St. Ethelwold, bishop and confessor, 984. 



St. Pellegrini, hermit, 643. 



Lammas Day. 



Obs. The chains and prisons of the saints, says Butler, were the 

 subject of their greatest joie and glory. God honoured them in the 

 Trince of the Apostles with wonderful miracles. St. Peter was 

 guarded by sixteen soldiers, and fastened to the ground by two 

 chains : in the middle of the night an angel appeared to him, and 

 bade him instantly arise; following his guide, he passed through the 

 guards; when in the street, the angel vanished suddenly. This de- 

 liverance is a proof how God restrains the wicked when he pleases, 

 and how he always watches over his faithful servants. 



We extract the following account from Brande's Popular 

 Antiquities : 



On Lammas Day, or the Gale of August.— Dr. Pettingal, in the 

 2d volume of the"^ Aichaeologia, p. 67, derives "Gule" from the 

 Celtic or British " Wyl," or " Gwyl," signifying a festival or holi- 

 day, and explains " Gule of August" to mean no more than the 

 holiday of St. Peter ad Vincula in August, when the people of Eng- 

 land paid their Peter pence. 



This is confirmed by Blount, who tells us that Lammas Day, the 

 1st of August, otherwise called thi; Gule or Yule of August, may 

 be a corruption of the British words " Gwyl Awst," signifying the 

 Feast of August. He adds, indeed, "or it may come from Vin- 

 cula, chains, that day being called in Latin Fesliun Sancti Petri ad 

 Vincula." 



Stramonium Datura Stramonium full fl. 



French Marigold Tagetes patula fl. 



The French ]\larigold is more spreading and has a smaller flower 

 than the African Marigold before notice! The leaves have a simi- 

 lar and pt-rhaps still stronger smell, which approaches something to 

 that of the Crown Imperial, but is still very different ; to some per- 

 sons it is unpleasant. 



