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Dec. 13. — S. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr. Cypress Arbor 

 Vitae. Thuja ciipressoides, 

 S. Lucy was a young lady of S}Tacuse, who, 

 preferring a religious single life to marriage, gave 

 away all her possessions to the poor. Having been 

 accused to Peschasius, a heathen judge, of pro- 

 fessing Christianity, she was wantonly and bar- 

 barously murdered by his order. 

 Dec. 21. — S. Thomas, the Apostle. Sparrow Wort. 

 Erica passerina, 

 S. Thomas is affirmed to have travelled and 

 promulgated Christianity among the Parthians, 

 Medes, and Persians; to have been the Apostle 

 of the Indies. He was mart)Ted at Melapore, 

 on the Coromandel coast. His preaching raised 

 the indignation of the Brahmins, who instigated 

 the people against him till they threw stones and 

 darts at him, and ended his life by running him 

 through with a lance. 

 Dec, 2j. — The Nativity of Christ, or Christmas Day. 

 Holly. Ilex bacciflora. 



