New Curiosities of Literature & Book of the Months, Том 2 |
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MIDSUMMER EVE , the Vigil of Saint John the Baptist's Day - June 23. Properly speaking , Midsummer Day denotes the time of the summer solstice , and is not , as many from its name have supposed , connected at all with the idea of middle ...
MIDSUMMER EVE , the Vigil of Saint John the Baptist's Day - June 23. Properly speaking , Midsummer Day denotes the time of the summer solstice , and is not , as many from its name have supposed , connected at all with the idea of middle ...
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... of the air in general - or it might be that such conflagrations were intended as a memorial that the heathens burnt the bones of Saint John at Sebaste - or it might signify that on the coming of the new law , the old should cease .
... of the air in general - or it might be that such conflagrations were intended as a memorial that the heathens burnt the bones of Saint John at Sebaste - or it might signify that on the coming of the new law , the old should cease .
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His family arms were a Saint Andrew's cross with four roses , and Buhle , as well as others , has supposed that it was to them and their symbolical interpretation that he owed the idea of the phrase , Rose - Crux .
His family arms were a Saint Andrew's cross with four roses , and Buhle , as well as others , has supposed that it was to them and their symbolical interpretation that he owed the idea of the phrase , Rose - Crux .
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... feeling has led the Catholies on so many occa- sions to adopt under another form so much of the pagan principle ; where the one deified human beings , the others elevated them to Saints and martyrs and implored their intercession .
... feeling has led the Catholies on so many occa- sions to adopt under another form so much of the pagan principle ; where the one deified human beings , the others elevated them to Saints and martyrs and implored their intercession .
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This belief is said to have origi- nated in one of the old Roman Catholic fables respecting Saint Swithin , Bishop of Winchester . Before his death , which took place in 868 , he had desired " that he might be buried in the open ...
This belief is said to have origi- nated in one of the old Roman Catholic fables respecting Saint Swithin , Bishop of Winchester . Before his death , which took place in 868 , he had desired " that he might be buried in the open ...
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