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JUDE S TIDE. 



OCT. 28. SS. Simon and Jude, apostles, 

 St. Faro, bishop and confessor. 

 St. Neot, anchoret and confessor. 

 King Alfred the Great. 



Obs. St. Simon is styled the Canaanite, from the Hebrew Cana, 

 to be zealous ; hence his name Simon Zelotes, or the Zealot : see 

 Luke vi. 15. He sufl'ered martyrdom on the cross with the greatest 

 composure, after much persecution and suffering. 



St. Jude is called both by the name of Thaddaeus and Libbaeus, 

 Matt. X. 3, and Markiii. 18. Jude, the brother of James, Jude v, 1. 

 And Judas, not Iscariot, John xiv. 22. He was of our Lord's kin- 

 dred : " Is not his mother culled Mary, and his brethren James and 

 Joses, and Simon and JudasV Matt. xiii. 55. After great success 

 ia his apostolic ministry, he was at last put to death for a reproof of 

 the superstitious rites of the Magi. He has left one Epistle, 

 esteemed to be of universal concern and great importance to 

 Christians, 



The Feast of St. Simon and St. Jude was superstitiously consi- 

 dered rainy, as well as that of St. Swithin, and this probably because 

 the autumnal rains began on or about that day. We have seen this 

 passage somewhere quoted from the very old play of the Roaring 

 Girls, " I know it as well as I know 'twill raine on Simon and Jude's 

 Day." Holinshed informs us, that so great a quantity of rain fell 

 on this day in 1536 as to prevent the action of a great battle that was 

 to have been fought between the king's troops and the rebel army. 



The commencement of cold weather probably suggested the fol- 

 lowing rhymes of Buckler : 



Festa Hies Judae prohibet te incedere untih, 



Sed vult ut corpus vestibusomne tegas. 

 Festa dies Jiidae cum transiit atque Simonis, 



In forihus nobis esse putatur hyeras. 

 Simonis, Judae post festum vae tibi nud^, 

 Tunc iuflant genti mala gaudia veste carenti. 

 In the Runic Calendar SS. Simon and Jude's Day was marked by a ship, on 

 account of their having been fisherman. — ff ormii Festi Danici, lib. ii. c.9. 



A la Saint Simon et Saint Jude on envoi au Temple les Gens un peu simple, 

 demanderdes Nefles, afin de lesattiaper et faire noircir pardes Valets. — Sauval 

 Antiq. de Paris, torn. ii. p. 617. 



Butler, in his account of .Alfred the Great today, describes a very curious 

 manner that he adopted of measurin;; time, so as to be enabled to observe ca- 

 nonical hours more punctually, clocks at that time being unknown. Alfred 

 caused waxen candles, marked by notches every inch, to be kept burning in his 

 oratory before the figures of the saints, hence measurinz tlie hours. These 

 candles were put into horn lanterns, which gave rise to the iutroduction of lan- 

 terns into general use. 



Late Goldflower Cluysanthemum serotinum fl. 

 Scattered Starwort Aster sparsiflorus fl. 



