328 PRESENTATION TIDE. 



NOV. 23. St. Clement, pope and mart, a d. 100. 

 St. Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium, 394. 

 St. Tron, confessor, 693. 

 St. Daniel, bishop and confessor, 545. 



Ohs. St. Cleroent was the son of Fausiinus, and was converted to the faith 

 by St. Peter and St. Paul. He was a Roman, and, as he himself says, of ihe 

 race of Jacob. He wrote two excellent Epistles to the t'orinihians. found in 

 the Alexandrian Manusciipt of the Bible.' St. Clemen! succeeded St. Cleius 

 in the Apostolical Chair of Rome in the year 91, and reigned nine years. 

 Eusebius says he died in the third year of Trajan, others style him a martyr. 

 St. Clement is generally believed to have died a natural death about the year 

 100, at the commencement of the Emperor Trajan's reign. His legend relates 

 that he was cast into the sea with an anchor about his neck, and that on the first 

 anniversary of Ins death the sea retired from the place where he suffered, 

 though three miles from the shore, and discovered a superb temple of the 

 finest marble, which contained a monument to the saint. The sea withdrew 

 in this way for several years, for seven days in succession. In allusion to this 

 circumstance, the device of an anchor may he seen in the various parts of the 

 cliurchof St. Clement Danes, London, and on the boundary marks of the parish. 

 Many of the parishes in the city of London have got certain surnames, as St. 

 Clement Danes, St. Margaret Raitens, St. Giles Cripplegate, St. Michael Bassi. 

 shaw, &c. derived from oral circumstances, or Irom facts in the history of 

 those parishes. 



Plott, in his " History of Staffordshire," page 430, describing a Clog Alma- 

 nack, says. A pot is marked against the 23d of November, for the feast of St. 

 Clement, from the antient custom of going about that night to beg drink to 

 make merry with. 



Bradv, in the Clavis Calendaria, 8vo. Lond. 1812, vol. ii. page 279, observes 

 that Old Martinmass continues to be noticed in our Almanacks on the 23d of 

 November. 



St. Tron was the founder of the great Benedictine .Abbey near Liege, called 

 St. Trons or Truyen's. His life is written by Theodoricus. 



Convex Woodsorrel Oxalis convexa fl. 



As the severer weather of winter is approaching, it is advisable to forewarn 

 persons who hustle the cold, as it is called in Sussex, against ihe too frequently 

 incurred dangers of close apartments, which are in many ways destructive of 

 the healih. The cheerful fire, closed doors, and drawn curtains of an even- 

 ing, by which Jack Frost and his biting Aeolian companions are kept out, are 

 admittedly very snug means of rendering our northern winter agreeable : but 

 persons err by not having sufficient vent tor air to pass freely in and out of 

 their apartments, pariicularlv tlieir bedrooms by night. People s.t in draughts 

 in warm summer weather, when thev are really dangerous, and exclude all air 

 in winter. Tlie metallic wheels or flyers placed in window panes and door 

 pannels, which whirl round with the passing current, and are called Ventila- 

 tors, are very useful machines; as, besides tending to circulate the air, the ra- 

 pidity of their motion indicates the comparative heat of our rooms. — Perennial 

 Ca/'-ii(i^ir. 



Autumnal appearances are increasing, and occasional gales of wind and in- 

 terchanges of nipping frost hasten the approaching winter. The following pas- 

 sage in Isaiah seems to allude to the wintry garb of Nature: — 7%e earf/i 

 mourneth and lnni;uis/ietli ,■ Lebnnrm is ashnmrd, and irithtreth aua!/; Sharon 



is li/ie a wilderness ; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruils. 



Isaiah, xxiii. &. 



There is in the Paris Breviarr an antient hymn to St. Clement to be used on 

 this day, beginning Martyr Dei, &c. 

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