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DEC. 4. St. Barbara, virgin and martyr, a.d. 306. 

 St. Peter Chrysologus, 450. 

 St. Anno, bishop and confessor of Cologn, 1075. 

 St. Osmund, bishop, 1099. 

 St. Maruthas, bishop, 5th cent. 

 St. Siran or Sigirannus, 655. 

 St. Clement of Alexandria, 189. 



Obs. St. Barbara was a scholar of Origen, and suffered martyr- 

 dom at Heliopolis in Egypt, in the reign of Galarius, about the 

 year 306. 



St. Peter Chrysologus was formed to perfect virtue from his youth 

 by the exercises of an interior life. He was consecrated Bishop of 

 Ravenna, and governed that see with great prudence and zeal. He 

 died on the 2d of December, in 450. 



The adoration paid to St. Barbara was formerly very great, and 

 is so still in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and other faithful countries, 

 whereby the Catholic religion has never suffered at all by revolutions. 

 The following is nearly the translation of a Spanish prayer to this 

 saint against storms, to be used particularly before and during 

 tempests : 



Prayer to the g-lorious St. Barbara, virgin and martyr, especially 

 against Tempests. 

 + Eternal and omnipotent God, who with the rays of thy divine 

 love didst illuminate the blessed St. Barbara, that she might appre- 

 ciate the high mystery of the blessed Trinity, and, despising the 

 dangerous delights of a vain world, she might embrace a state of 

 perpetual virgin purity, and by the blood of her glorious martyrdom 

 might shew forth a bold example of perseverance in the Catholic 

 faith, concede, we humbly beseech thee, that by her intercession 

 and glorious merits we may be delivered from the dangers, tempests, 

 and storms of this life, and especially that we be enabled at the hour 

 of death to receive worthily the blessed sacraments of confession, 

 and the communion of the holy body and precious blood of our 

 Lord, thy only begotten son Jesus Christ, to the end that we may 

 be received like her into the kingdom wherein thou reignest in per- 

 fect trinity and unity for ever and ever. Amen. — Then follows the 

 Our Father, and the Hail Mary.-\- 



In a curious old Prayer Book, entitled Celeste Palmetum, pub- 

 lished at Bruges, p. 287, we have a little Office of St. Barbara, com- 

 posed chiefly of orations and hymns, most of which express the vari- 

 ous particular objects of her patronage, and are addressed to her against 

 disease, violent death, and imminent danger. One runs thus : 



To St, Barbara. 

 Admitte nostra vota, 

 O Sancta Barbara, 

 Profecta mente tota 



Patrona maxima, t 



Exopto te videre 



Cum cesso vivere. 



Tunc, oro, me tuere 



Coeloquesuscipe. 



Barbadoes Gooseberry Cactus Pereskia fr. 



