318 MAUTILMAS TIDE. 



NOV. 13. St. Didacus, confessor, a. v. 1463. 

 St. Stanislas Kostka, confessor, 1568. 

 St. Mitrius, martyr, 444. 

 St. Brice, bishop and confessor, 444. 

 St. Constant, priest in Ireland, 777, 

 St, Chillen or Kilian of Ireland, priest. 

 St. Homobonus, 1197. 



Obs. St. Didacus, or Diego, being Spanish for James, was of the 

 town of St. Nicholas, in the diocese of Seville in Andalusia. He 

 became earlj' an Observantine Friar, and attended the Jubilee at 

 Rome whereat St. Bernardin of Sienna was canonized in 1450; 

 among the numerous votaries were present above 3800 of the order 

 of St. Francis. In 1463 he died at Alcala. 



St. Homobonus was a merchant of Cremona, and had his good 

 name given him by his father at his baptism. Vida honoured him 

 with the following lines, and considered him as patron of his native 

 city: 



Beate paiiperum Pater 

 Tu Dientecoelum cogitans 

 Deuni gerebus pectoie 

 Queni deperihas unice 

 Rerum tuiiruni nil memor 

 Tu laruus indigentibus 

 Eras profiiniieiia oninibus 

 Parvum tno quod Pradiuni 

 Vixsuppetabat victui 

 Ascriptu-. inde coelitum 

 Choiisbeatis iiidicas 

 Apud Deum quJi polleas 

 Renim satoiem gratia 

 Funus veoitur ad tuum 

 • laeci vident, Claudi ineaot, 

 Muti loquuntur, audiunt 

 Surdi, laevautur languidi. 

 Today being old All Souls Day, and the country people fre- 

 quently foUowino: the old style, it is called in Shropshire Souling 

 Day, from the custom of making Soul Cakes, as they are called, or 

 cakes to be eaten on All Souls Day. The children, particularly about 

 Bridgenorth, still go about singing the following verses at their neigh- 

 bours, and begging thereby for one or more of these small cakes : 

 Soul, Soul, for a Soul Cake, 

 I prithee, good mother, a Sottl Cake ; 

 One for Peter, lit'O for Paul, 

 And three for him that made us all, 

 Soul, soul, for a Soul Cake. 



There used in other places to be a custom of begging today by 

 singing : 



Ood bless your soul. Beans and all. 



Late Golden Rod Solidago ■petiolaris still fl. 

 Bay Laurus Poetica. 



We find this tree recorded today in the Floral Directory, and 

 called Shrub of St. Homobonus, 



