274 MICHAELMAS TIDE. 



SEPT. 30. St. Jerom, priest, and Doctor of the 

 Church, A. D. 420. 

 St. Gregory the Illuminator, apostle of Armenia, 



4th cent. 

 St. Honorius, abp. of Canterbury, 653. 



Obs. St. Jerom, who is allowed to have been in many respects 

 the most learned of all the Latin fathers, and considered a Doctor 

 of the Church from his illustrations of the Scriptures, was born at 

 Stridonium, now Idigni, a small town upon the confines of Pannoraia, 

 Dalmatia, and Italy, near Aquileia. Having triumphed over all 

 vices, subdued the infernal monsters, and made his life a martyrdoin 

 of penance and labours, at length by a fever, in a good old age, he 

 was released from the prison of his body in 420, on the 30th of Sep- 

 tember. The Latinity of St. Jerom is particularly elegant, and his 

 manner of treating his subject impressive. He wrote several trea- 

 tises against the heretic Jovinian, and against Vigilentius, princi- 

 pally to defend the Catholic doctrines respecting holy virginity, and 

 the respect paid to saintly relics, proving against the opinion of these 

 heretics that the Catholics only venerate relics and images as memo- 

 rials of the saints they represent, who are honoured as being the 

 more renowned servants of God, and martyrs to the true faith. No 

 controversial person should make up his mind about religion who 

 has not read the works of St. Jerom ; but that especially DeVirginate. 

 In the Office Comm. Viig. we linve a hymn in honor of our Lord, followed 

 by the chorus of holy viigins which betcins Jtsu corona virginam. In the 

 same office is the followina; beautiful hyinii in lyrical measure: 



Quid sacrum Viraogerierosa martyr 



Ambnint frontem diiplices coronae 



Nimpe non ununi jreminoreportas 

 Hoste triumplnim, 



Mollior fre^it neqne te voUiptas, 



Impotens flexit neqne te tyrannus, 



Tu sraves poenas pariterqiie blandos 

 Vincis amores, 



Liliis sponsus recubat rosisque, 

 , Tu tuo semper bene fidasponso 



El rosas martyr simul et dedisti 

 Liliavirgo, 



Snmma laus Patri senitoque Verbo 



Et tibi conipar utriusque Nexus 



Fac tibi semper placeamus uni 

 Moribus acquis. 



Golden Star Lily Amaryllis aurea fl. 

 Italian Pimpernel Anagullis Morelli still fl. 

 Great Waxflower Cerintlie major still fl. 



The Golden Star Lily has also been called St. Jerom's Lily. There are in- 

 deed many plants of this tiibe called after saints which we have hardly ven- 

 tured to put down as positively in blow on any particular day, from not know, 

 ing exactly the period of their flowering, as St. Bruno's Lily Anthericum 

 Liliailrum, figured bv Curtis in the Hot. Mag.; also St. James' Cross 

 Amari/l/is fonnomosissima . The former we snspect will be found in blow on 

 the Alps about July 18, and the latter July 25. However the former may have 

 only been so calle<l St. Bruno's Lily by some pious Carthusian, in whose monas- 

 tery garden it may have been cultivated, and who named it after the liolv 

 founder of the Order. With us, in the greenhouse, it will blow in May. 



