306 



ALLIIALLOW TIDE. 



+ NOV. 1. ALL SAINTS. 



St. Caesarius, martyr, a.d, 300. 



St. Mary, martyr. 



St. Marcellus, bishop of Paris, 5th cent. 



St. Benignus, apos. of Burgundy, 272. 



St. Austremonius, confessor, 3d cent. 



St.. Harold IV. king, 980. 



St. Benignus, bishop in Lombardy. 



St. Fortunatns. 



Obs. All Saints Day.— The church in this great festival honours all the 

 sainfs rising together in glory. The Latin term fie/igua «eems to imply that 

 the feast was instituted to celebrate all the remainder of the saints not speci- 

 fied under their proper day : this, however, is not really the case. The insti- 

 tution of this fesiival originated in the dedication of the great church of the 

 Pantheon in Rome, formerly a heathen temple built by Marcus Agrippa. — See 

 Butler's /.ives, vol. xi. p. 1. 1 he Frenciicali today Lc Tmissamt, a corruption 

 of Tous hs Saints. 



In tliis great feast, says Butler, as in all other festivals of the saints, 

 Almighty God is the only object of supreme wor-hip, and the whole of that 

 inferior veneration paid to the ?ainis is directed to give sovereign honour to 

 God alone, whose gifts tb.eir graces are. When, therefore, we honour the 

 saints, in them and through ihem we honour God and Christ, the true God 

 and true man, the Redeemer of mankind, horn of the immaculate Mary, even 

 Virgin, the Kingof iheSainis, and the source of their glory andsanctity. Those, 

 and many they are, who grossly misrepresent the Cathobc doctrine on this 

 point, should read Butler's account i>f the first and second days of November 

 before they form hasty opinions. The following antient hymn sung at Vespers, 

 as well as another similar one ai Laudes, convey the true doctrine on the 

 subject : 



Christe Redemptos omnium 



Conserva tuos famulos 



Beatae semper Virginis 



Placaiis Sanctis precibus 



Beata quo(|ue as;mma, 



Coelesiuum spirituum 



Practerita, presentia 



Futura mala pellite, 



Vates aeierni Judicis 



Apostolique Domini, 



Suppliciter exposcimus 



Salvari vestris precibus, 



Martyres Dei inclyti 



Confessoresque liicidi 



Vestris orationibus 



Nos fertis in coelestibus 



Lhori Sanctarum Virginum, 



Monarchorumque omnium 



Simul cum sancti- omnibus 



Consortes Chrisn facile 



Gentem refenis perfidam 



Credentium de finibus, 



Ut Christolandes debitas 



Persolvimus alicriter. Gloria, kc. 



This day was formerly dedic ited by superstition to the angel presiding over 

 fruits, and called Lamas L'bhal, or lit Slesse des Pnnimes, words corrupted 

 into Lamb>' Wool, bells formerly u^ed to be rang on this feast, and the ring- 

 ing, which began on the vigil before, was continued through the night and all 

 the next day ; a custom not quite gone out of use. 



Bonfires in some places are still lighted on the Vigil of AUhallows, and con- 

 tinue to burn all night. 



All the Agaricks now begin to decline, and after this time few are seen. 



