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AUG. 20. St. Bernard, abbot, a.d. 1153. 

 St. Osvvin, king and martyr, 6th cent. 



Vinalia secundum Plin. — Julian Cal. 



Ohs. St. Bernard was born in 1091. He entered the monastery 

 of Citeaux in 1113 ; in 1114 he made his profession in the hands of 

 St. Stephen : he was some time after made abbot, and founded se- 

 veral monasteries. By the pious zeal and prudence of St. Bernard 

 schism was extinguished in many kingdoms. After a life of piety 

 and labour, he yielded up his soul to God on the 20th of August, 

 1153, the sixty third of his age, having been abbot thirty eight years. 



St. Bernard was the prodigy and great ornament of the eleventh 

 age : he was the third son of Tescelin and Alice, of noble family in 

 Burgundy, and was born at Fontaines, a chateau near Dijon. The 

 monastery of the Grand St. Bernard in Switzerland is well known 

 to travellers for its hospitable character and benevolent instructions, 

 no less than for the remarkably sagacious dogs kept there to conduct 

 lost travellers through the almost impenetrable snow to the convent. 



Autumnal Dandelion Apargm autumnalis full fl. 

 Shining Tagetes Tagetes lucida full fl. 

 Siberian Wallflower Cheiranthus rosfratus fl. 

 Taurian Wallflower Cheiranthus cuspidatus fl. 

 Morocco Stock Matthiola parvijiora full fl. 



By this time the Autumnal Dandelion, covering certain fields and 

 pasture lands with its yellow flowers, gives the appearance of a 

 second spring. — As there be some flouers of yellow and vernal ap- 

 pearance, which springing up and covering the shorn fields again in 

 autumn, do remind one of a second spring, after the heats and 

 storms of summer have gone Ly; so may we enjoy, when the cares 

 and tempests of maturer life shall be over, a second spring of the 

 flowers of harmless pleasures and recreated delights, before old aye 

 cometh on, while we have yet the fruits of autumn in enjoiement, 

 and the hope afore us of a spring everlasting. — Florilegium viii. 20. 



The garden may still be rendered very gay by numberless 

 autumnal plants. And young seedlings of the Great Nasturtiums 

 may be kept backward, so as to be now planted out, and to continue 

 to flower all the autumn. 



The Julian Calendar notices now the end of the vintage. But 

 we imagine that this feast of Vinalia at this time of year must 

 have been at the commencement of the vintage. 



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