Star@hoeed od ener: Piaan — 
(24.) A. D. 1095. April 4. “'This year Easter was on the 8th 
of the Kalends of April. And, after Easter, on the festival of St. 
Ambrose, that is on the 2d of the Nones [4th day,] of April, over 
~ almost all this land and for nearly the whole of the night, stars 
were seen falling from heaven in manifold ways, not one or two 
at a time, but so thickly that no man could count them.” 
MXCV. On thisum geare weron Eastron on yur ki. Apr. 
And tha uppon Eastron on sce Ambrosius messe-niht, that is u 
Non. Apr., wees gesewen for-neah ofer eall this land swilce for- 
neah ealle tha niht swithe meni-fealdlice steorran of heofenan 
feollan, naht be anan oththe twam, ac swa thiclice thet hit nan 
mann ateallan ne mihte.”—Chron. Sax. ed. Gibson. Oxon. 1692, 
4to. p. 202. 
This instance was first quoted, anonymously, from Wilken’s 
History-of the Crusades, (Geschichte der Kreuzziige, Leipzig, 
1807,) in Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. (1836, II, 145.) Wilken 
(th. 1, s. 75,) quotes Baldric’s Chronicle, which states that the 
shooting stars were on that occasion so numerous, “ut grando, 
nisi lucerent, pro densitate putarentur.”’ The date is erroneously 
given, April twenty fifth, in Wilken. It is thus copied into the 
Comptes Rendus, from which work the false date has been ex- 
tensively propagated. Calvisius (Opus Chronolog., etc. fol. Franc. 
ad Men. 1685, p. 743,) also gives the subjoined quotation from 
Baldric, which shows the origin of the mistake. The moon was 
in fact in the twenty fifth day of the lunation, on the 4th day of 
the month of April of that year. Notices of this great meteoric 
shower are found in many different authors, some of which are 
given below. Its exact date is most satisfactorily determined. 
“1095. Stelle in eaelo die 4. April. fer. 4, Luna 25, vise sunt 
inter se pugnare, in tanta frequentia, ut numerari non possent.”— 
Baldricus, 
“Anno autem Dominice Incarnationis millesimo nonagesimo 
quinto, Indictione tertia, pridie Nonas Aprilis, quarta feria post oc- 
avas Paschee, a quarta ferme vigilia noctis, usque in crepusculum, 
Stelle innumerabiles de ceelo, versus occidentalem plagam, ubiq. 
terrarum cadere Vise sunt.’”’—Chron. Sae. Monast. Casin. ; in 
Muratori Rer. Ital. Ser. t. iv, p. 497. 
1094 [* verius 1095”’] Ind. 1. mense Aprilis Urbanus Papa Pla- 
Centie Synodum celebravit et 1v Nonas ejusdem mensis Aprilis fuit 
“mibile signum in stellis, ita quod a medie noctis tempore usque 
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