ANGELS TID£. 283 



OCT. 9. St. Dionysius, bishop of Paris, &c. mar- 

 tyrs, A.D. 272, 

 St. Domninus, martyr, 304. 

 St. Guislain, abbot, 681. 

 St. Lewis Berirand, confessor, 1581. 



Obs. St. Dionysiiis, otlienvise abbreviated into Denys, was Bishop of Paris, 

 and died in tlie year 272 of our era. The Ctiristian faith seems, however, to 

 have been phiuted in Gaul inucli before his lime by St. Lulie and St. Crescens ; 

 and these saints living about tlie time of the other St. Denys the Areopagite, 

 the latter beiame confounded witii the saint celebrated today. See Bu/ler's 

 Lives, vol. X. 57 and KB; also ourOctoljer 3. 



Some of the French writers inform us that St. Denys first preached the Gos- 

 pel aiiionsr them, and therefore regard him as their tutelar saint. His reliques 

 are enshrined in his abbey chuicti. This famous abbey of St. Denys near 

 Paris is well known to almost all travellers. 



Traiiition informs us tliat St. Denys was lieheaded on Mont Martre, and a 

 most absnrd distich has been founded on the idle and mendacious story cooked 

 up by lieretics, that his decapitated body carried his head in its hands : 

 St. Denys had his head cut off'; he ilid not care for that, 

 He took it up and carried it a mile without his hat. 

 This is one anion;; the many endeavours of false Christians to perplex the sa- 

 cred Catholic historian by a wilful mixture of absurd and faKe miracles with 

 those which are well attested. Against this let all Catholics be guarded. 



Milky Mushroom Agaricus lactiflaus abounds. 

 Eatable Mushrooms ^^aric?/s crtmpes^rjs still abound. 



The .Milky Mushroom or Agaric is now in the greatest abundance, and in 

 weather favouralile to their growth a most nnmerons tribe of these excrescence* 

 are now to be seen springing up in every damp place. Our celhirs, our yards, 

 and waste places, even damp houses, are infrsted with them. The dry rot is a 

 fungus, the mould on paste is a fungus, the mould on cheese is a fungus. 

 Fiom the Stately Agaric or Ponderous Boletus to the liairlike blue mould on 

 decaying animal substances, every imaginable link is filled up of fungi of all 

 sorts and kinds, and Nature in this as in other instances seems to revel in 

 countless varieties of forms. 



Mushrooms still are plentiful; we have already cautioned our readers against 

 the too frequent use of them. There are some fuugi closely resembling them 

 that are actually poisonous. 



The Everlilowing Hose still flowers, and its fine deep red colour remind us of 

 the poetical idea that it was painted by Cupid, as expressed in the following 



Epithalamium. 

 Salve grado Himeno, 

 Ya Hespero eu el cielo 

 Enciende, fiel consuelo. 

 La vela del Amor. 



Llega, alia, Selina 

 A su caro marido, 

 Roxeante en el vestido 

 De carinosa ardor. 

 Como ea las florestas, 

 Teraprana y dicliosa 

 Es la sa^rada Rosa 

 Pintada por Amor. 



O Musas de Helicone, 

 Enterpe y Clio amada, 

 Con vuestra vos sagraaa 

 Centals en su honor. 

 Las Dias de verano. 

 Mala, y pintada Flora, 

 Pingan la terra ahora. 

 Con vario color. 

 Feliz feliz marido, 

 A te echa sus brazos, 

 En amorosos lazes, 

 Objeto del amor. 



