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- 62 Such apparitions are frequent. See Faber’s The Foot of the Cross: or, The Sorrow of Mary, Fourth Edition, 1872, p. 209. Le Vicomte Hippolyte de Gouvello’s Apparitions d’une âme du Purgatoire en Bretagne, Téqui, Paris, 4me édition, 1919, may be read with profit. Dante says, Purgatorio, xi, 34-36:
Ben si dee loro aitar lavar le note,
che portar quinci, sì che mondi e lievi
possano uscire alle stellate rote.
- 63 W. W. Story, Roba di Roma, 8vo, London, 1863, remarks: “Saturday is considered lucky by the Italians, as the day of the Virgin.” On a Saturday the sun always shines, if it be but for a moment. Orlando Pescetti, Proverbi Italiani, 12mo, Venice, 1603, has: “Ne donna senza amore ne Sabbato senza sole.” The Spaniards have a similar proverb, and the French rhyme runs:
En hiver comme en été
jamais Samedi n’est passé
qué le soleil n’y ait mis son nez.
Aveyron, Proverbes et Dictous Agricoles de France, 12mo, Paris, 1872, quotes several saws to this effect. In the Côté d’Or, Meuse, they say:
Le soleil fait par excellence
le Samedi la révérence.
Another proverb runs:
Il n’y pas de Samedi sans soleil
ni de viele sans conseil.
- 64 The Glories of Mary. “Practices of Devotion …. Fourth Devotion, of Fasting.”
- 65 De Passione Domini, c. ii.
- 66 Abbott, Macedonian Folklore, pp. 221-222.
- 67 F. S. Krauss, “Vampyre im südslavischen Volksglauben,” Globus, lxi (1892), p. 326, says that in some parts of Bosnia, when peasant women pay a visit of condolence to a hosue, in which a death has occurred they put a little sprig of hawthorn behind their headcloth, and on leaving the house throw away the flower into the street. The vampire will be so busy gathering together the leaves and picking up the buds that he will not be able to follow them to their own homes.
- 68 1526-1585. See G. Dejob, Marc-Antoine Muset, Paris, 1881.
- 69 Historia Naturalis, VII, liii, 52.
- 70 31st October, 1885, p. 841.
- 71 p. 80.
- 72 Horace Welby, The Mysteries of Life and Death.
- 73 In Monsignor’s Benson’s A Winnowing, 1910, Jack Weston dies, and returns to life. But his death would have dissolved the contract of matrimony, a point not appreciated by the author.
- 74 Cooper’s The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death.
- 75 Second Edition by Walter R. Hadwen, M.D., London, 1905.
- 76 La Morte Apparente, p. 16.
- 77 Lancet, 22nd December, 1883, pp. 1078-80.
- 78 p. 65.
- 79 De Anima, v.
- 80 As this is the feast of S. Martin some Martyrologies transfer the commemoration of S. John Eleemosinarius to 23rd January, others to 3rd February, and a few assign 13th July. Among the Greeks 11th November is the feast of S. Mennas, so S. John is transferred to the following day.
- 81 Born circa 345; died 399. One of the most important ascetical writers of the fourth century. His works will be found in Migne. Patrologia Graeca, xl. It must be noted, however, that S. Jerome (Epistola 133 ad Ctesiphontem, n. 3) charges him with Originistic errors and deems him the precursor of Pelagius.
- 82 S. Babylas, Bishop of Antioch, with other Christians, suffered during the Decian persecution, 250 A.D. His burial-place was very celebrated. Cæsar Gallus built a church dedicated in the Martyr’s honour at Daphne to put an end to the abomination and demonism of the famous Temple and oracle there.
