Flowers and Pla7its 



He was bom at Jarrow, in Northumberland, 

 A.D. 673 ; and is said to have expired, dictating the 

 last words of a translation of S. John's Gospel, in 

 the year 735. He is called the Lamp of the 

 English Church. 



June I. — S. Nicomede, Priest and Martyr. Single 

 Yellow Rose. Rosa lutea. 

 He was a scholar to S. Peter, and discovered 

 himself to be a Christian by his honourably burying 

 one Felicula, a martyr. He was beaten to death 

 with leaden plummets for refusing to sacrifice to 

 the gods, A.D. 90. 

 June 5. — S. Boniface, Bishop of Mentz, and Martyr. 

 Three-leaved Rose. Rosa sifiica. 

 This saint was born at Crediton, in Devonshire, 

 educated at a Benedictine monastery at Exeter, 

 sent to Friesland as a missionary, became Arch- 



