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SEPT. 3. St. Simeon Stylites the younger. 

 A.D. 592. 

 St. Remaclus, bishop of Maastricht, 664. 

 St. Mansuet, bishop of Toul, 375. 

 St. Macnisius, bishop in Ireland, 513. 

 B. Adamnan? 

 St. Cohnan in Ireland ? 

 St. Mergeus in Ireland ? 

 St. Ballon in Ireland ? 

 St. Vepe in Cornwall ? 

 St. Gregory the Great. — AusT. BreV.* 



(Jbs. St. Simeon recorded today was of Antioch, and born in 512. He very 

 early retired into the deserts of Syria, and fixed himself in the monastery of 

 Thaumastore, where it is recorded he for threescore years lived successiv^y 

 on two pillars, like his prototype St. Simeon of the Pillar recorded on the .ith 

 of January, and that he did this in obedience to a certain monii, who had lived 

 the same way. To the modern married lounger, who passes his days between 

 his sofa and his easy curricle, and his nights on a feather bed, whoeats vora- 

 ciously of the luxuries of each successive season, in whose mind the feasts of 

 the church are recorded only as a periodical return of ditfereut sorts of fruits 

 and meats, the lives of pillar saints, and the austerities of the e.irly hermits 

 and anchorites must appear as perfect miracles ; and yet we are well assured 

 that they found the greatest of human delight in these solitudes, where, pinna- 

 cled on some lofty eminence, they passed their lives in perpetual adoration of 

 the Divinity. In Ireland and in some other countries we may still see the re- 

 mains of the lofty round towers erected in the pristine a,<es of the church for 

 these solitary and devoted Christians, some of whom scarcely ever exchanged 

 a word with any human being, except perhaps with some " sad votarist in 

 palmer's weed-," who, wendini; his way on his pilgrimage to the shriue of a 

 favourite saint, paid to the pillared solitary some passing act of respect. 



Harvest Bells Campanula rotundifolia still full H. 

 Lesser Fleabane Inula pulicaria full fl. 

 Roadside Fleabane Inula dysenterica in fullest fl. 



The little Blue Harvest Bells are still in fullest flower, and are seen spring, 

 ing from walls and old towers as well as from the grassy fields. We have 

 seen them even on the tops of high steeples, their pendant bells wavering to 

 the autumnal breeze. 



To the BeUJlowers (hat ^row round a Saint's Pillar, 

 O little drooping bells of blue. 

 Like roaiies ot azure hue. 

 That catch the Palmer's passing view. 



As on he's wending 

 To some saint's shrine ; at evening hour 

 I'll sit beneath the mantled tower. 

 To tell my beads, while pelts the shower. 



To which thou'rt bending, 

 When high aloft, in accents fair, 

 The pillar'd martyr makes his prayer. 

 And carols to the ambient air. 



As if revealing 

 Some mystery deep of God on high. 

 Pensive and motionless I'll try 

 To catch the prophetic words that fly 

 'Neaih Heaven's high ceiling. 



Anihologia, 



