308 ALLHALLOW TIDE. 



NOV. 3. St. Wenefribe, virgin martyr. 

 St. Malachi, archbishop of Armagh, 1148. 

 St. Papulus, 3d cent. 

 St. Flour, 389. 

 St. Rumwald. 



Obs. St. VVenefride was a holy virgin of exemplary piety, who 



was murdered by the infamous Caradoc prince of JNorth Wales, an 



account of which maybe found in Butler's Live.s of the Saints, and 



also in a small publication on the Miracles performed at Holywell, 



by the Right Reverend Dr. Milner. At the place where she was 



immolated, a well of pure water sprung up, the stones at the bottom 



of which, it is said, were marked with red streaks, in memory of her 



innocent blood shed on that spot, to which spring, so celebrated for 



its miraculous cures, the following lines allude : 



Ad BasinifH'erk foris oritur, 

 Qui satis vuli»o dicitur, 

 Kt tanns bullisscacurit 

 Quod mox injectti rejicit. 

 Tarn magnum flunien procreat 

 Ut Cambriae sufficiat. 

 Aegri qui dant rogamiua, 

 Reportant meiiicaniiiia. 

 Rubro guttatoslapides 

 In scateliris repenes; 

 In sianum sacri sang-uinis 

 Quern Wiuifredae Virgiuis 

 Guttur truDcatum fuderit. 



Mr. Pennant, speaking of St. VVenefride's Well in Flintshire, 



says : — A bell belonging to the church was also christened in honour 



of her. I cannot learn the names of the gossips, who, as usiial, 



were doubtless rich persons. On the ceremony they all laid hold 



of the rope, bestowed a name on the bell, and the priest, sprinkling 



it with holy water, baptized it. These consecrated bells were 



always inscribed. The inscription on that in question ran thus : 



Saucta Wenefieda, Deo hoc coinmendare memento, 

 Ut, pietate sua, nos servtt ab lioste cruento. 



And a little lower was another address : 



Protege prece pia quos convoco, Virgo Maria. 



Modest Spiranthes Spiranthes pudica fl. in the hot- 

 house. 



Ten petalled Sunflower Helianthus decapetalus full fl. 

 Hairy Rudbeckia Rudbeckia hirta still fl. 



The cold wet fogs of November now creep on apace, and the few 

 flowers remaining in the garden have a melancholy appearance. 



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