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AUG. 30. St. Rose of Lima, virgin, a.d. 1617. 

 SS. Felix and Adanetus, martyrs, 303. 

 St. Fiaker of Ireland, anchoret, 670. 

 St. Pammachius, confessor, 410. 

 St. Agilus, abbot, 650. 



Obs, St. Rose was of Spanish extraction, born at Lima in 1586. 

 She was at first christened Isabel, but the figure and colour of her 

 face in the cradle seeming in some measure to resemble a beautiful 

 Rose, the name of Rose was given her. The whole life of St. Rose 

 of Lima was a continual vehement thirst after those religious and 

 pious exercises in which she found her greatest comfort and support 

 during the course of her earthly pilgrimage. She happily passed to 

 eternal bliss on the 24th of August, 1617, being thirty one years 

 old. Her festival is appointed to be kept on the 30th. St. Rose 

 when young is said to have had a little garden, which she filled 

 with crosses and pious images ; thinking that as all life was a garden 

 of crosses, which we had to bear in succession, so we could not be 

 reminded thereof by the exhibition of too many emblems of the same 

 in pleasure gardens of our infantine years. The life of St. Rose 

 has been written in Latin, illustrated with many plates, represent- 

 jbl; her principal actions. 



Reflections on the following of a Guardian Angel. 



What is life but a garden of crosses? 



What the woilil but a valley of tears ? 

 Ouri^ains are but preludes to losses, 



Our hopes are all balanced by fears. 

 In the flowers of our gardens are breeding 



The worms that devour the fruit. 

 And the flowers of our virtues want weeding 



Of tlie nettles of sin at the root. 

 !n ohjects of earthly devotion 



All smiles are surrounded by scorns 

 Like gems on a rough troubled ocean, 



Like Hoses that bloom among thorns. 

 Then I'll plant me a garden of crosses. 



And there on their merits repose. 

 That since all human pleasure but dross is, 



They may help me to Heaven to St. Rose. 



Antholoifia, Bor. et Aust, 



Rose Lily Nerine Sarniensis fl. 



The liose Lily or Guernsey Lily received its last name from having natu- 

 ralized itself in Guernsey, where a ship carrying its bulbous roots seems to 

 iiave been formerly wrecked. It is called Hose Lily from its colour, which 

 is however of a deeper crimson than of any Rose. It has also been called 

 the Rose of Lima in tlie Floral Directory, but it is a native, we believe, of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. It may however be to this Lily that the following aspi- 

 ration alludes : — As the Rose in sweetness doth excel all other flowers, and 

 containeth their colours and potencies, so doth St. Rose of Lima excel all other 

 virgins in the nerfunie of her heavenlie virtues. Her chastity is as pure as the 

 wliite Lily, her charity refreshens the country aronnd like the Hose, whose 

 odour is felt before it is seen. Her faith was as a rock in the ocean, whose 

 Assures were full of flowers, and the hope that lighted up her mind was as the 

 moonbeams that silver the summits of the Andes, foieiunners of the rising 

 sun of protnisc. — F/ori/egintti viii. 30. 



In our Office for St. Rose in the Breviary a perpetual play on the flower, evi- 

 dently by accident, runs through the whole collect. 



