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NOV. 12. St. Martin, pope and martyr, a.d. 655. 

 St. Nilus, anchoret, Father of the Church, 390. 

 Sr. Livhi, bishop and martyr, 633. 

 St. Lebwin, confessor, 8th cent. 



Obs. The St. Martin recorded today was Pope Martin I. who 

 was born at Todi in Tuscany. He was a martyr to imprisonment 

 and starvation, and died on the 16th of September, 655. 



St. Livin was a zealous and learned Irish bishop, who went over 

 to Flanders to convert the idolaters. He began his work by dedi- 

 cating himself a holocaust to God, and spending thirty days in 

 prayer at the tomb of St. Bavo at Ghent, and offered there every 

 day the holy sacrifice. He wrote an elegy to St. Bavo, which was 

 formerly sung in the divine Office of St. Bavo at Ghent, and is pub- 

 lished by Usher and jNIabill, Saec ii. Bon. p. 461. 



St. Lebwin is patron of Daventer, and had a famous church there, 

 still bearing his name. In it were preserved his reliques, famous 

 for miracles. See Delices des Pays has. 



Grape Alve Veltheimia Uvaria fl. 



We cannot expect nny great difference in the weather between the first week 

 111 November and this time. It is generally gloomy, or else windy .with 

 showers, which continue to beat off the leaves now seen flying iu the air some- 

 times to a great height. 



The effect of a whirlblast or sudden gnst of wind, accompanied with hail, 

 not unfrequent at this season, on the falling leaves, is thus naturally delineated 

 by the mountain poet Wordsworth : 



But see! vihere'er the hai'stones drop, 

 The withered leaves all skip and hop; 

 There's not a breeze, — no breath of air, — 

 Yet here, and there, and everywhere, 

 Along the floor, beneath the shade 

 By those emboweririg Hollies made. 

 The leaves in myriads jump and spring, 

 As if with pipes and music rare 

 Some Robin Goodfellow were there. 

 And all those leaves, in festive glee. 

 Were dancing to the minstrelsy. 



The month of November was said by the ancients to be under the tutelary 

 protection ot Uiana, and this niij-'ht possibly be on account ol the prevalence ol 

 hunting and fieldsports in general during this month. In the calm dark warm 

 days which now often occur, when sounds are heard at a distance, this notion 

 has often suggested itself to us n hen we have heard the cheerful and lively 

 music of several packs of Harriers and of Beagles at one time, in full cry, in 

 different directions, as may be often heard in Sussex, and on heating which we 

 might well say with Shakspeare : 



Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them, 



And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth. 



This is old All Saints Day, and by a curious old set of couidets in Welch it 

 appears that on the eve preceding, the Heath in some places used to be burned- 

 by way of a bonfire : 



Calangauaf Unn goddaith, 



Aradyr yn rhych, ych yn ngwaith : 



O'rcant odid cydymmaith. 



On All Saints Day bare is the place where the Heath is burnt ; 

 The plough is in the furrow, the Ox at work: 

 Amongst a hundred, 'tis a chance to find a friend. 



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