The Church Seasons historically and poetically illustrated
Publisher: J. Hogg
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS.; title: ADVENT.; title: Its Institution — The capital Seasons of Advent — General longing for a Christ — Hymn of Eupolis — Subjects of Advent Poetry — The Ambrosian Hymn, Veni Medempior Gentium — Poetry of the Second Advent — Theodore of the Studium — Ode on the Second Advent — George Wither's "Hymns and Songs of the Church" — Various Advents of Christ — Bishop Jeremy Taylor — His "Hymn for Advent" — Bishop Doane's "Two Advents." 1; title: CHRISTMAS DAY.; title: Antiquity of Celebration — Various derivations of the Festival — Its relation to Judaism — And to Heathenism — The exact Time of the Nativity not ascertained — The three-fold Cycle of Sacred Seasons — Christinas Topics — Course of Prophecy — The Incarnation the great Fact in the History of the World — Defines and Limits the Fall of Man — Rationale of Christ's Poverty — Manhood the highest Offering of Earth to Heaven — Ephraim Syrus — His Hymn on the Nativity — Cosmas of Jerusalem — Ode from his Canon for Christmas Day — Maubumus — Hen quid jaces stabulo — Luis de Gongora — "Sonnet on the Nativity" — Archdeacon Churton's Translation — George Herbert's Lines on "Christmas" — Herrick's "Ode of the Birth of our Saviour" — Withers Christmas Hymn — Bishop Jeremy Taylor — His Lines on "Christ's Birth in an Inn" — Poetic Literature of America — Edmund H. Sears — His "Angels' Song." 13; title: ST. STEPHEN'S DAY — December 26.; title: Early Commemorations of the Martyrs — Probably of Apostolic injunction — Singular glory of St. Stephen — The Proto-Martyr the greatest of the Martyrs — Manner of Commemoration — Epistles of the Churches of Smyrna and Antioch — Nativity of the Martyrs — Meaning and acceptation of the word Martyr — Letters of the Churches of Vienna and Lugdunum of Gaul — Privileges of the Martyrs — Effect of the Novelty of the Hopes of Christianity — Volunteer Martyrdom — Definition of the expression " Christian Martyr" — The Ideal Martyr — Caswall's Translation of Sanctorum meritis inclyta gaudia — Martyrdom not one of the Evidences of Christianity — Various Victors over the fear of Death — Lord Bacon on "Death" — Dr. Donne's "Holy Sonnet" — Desire to anticipate Heaven — The Summons to die to be waited for — Death easier than Holy Living — Martyrs on calculation — The true Glory of the Martyr — Institution of the Festival of St. Stephen — Gregory Nyssen — St. Augustine — Juxtaposition of Christmas and St. Stephen's Day — Adam of St. Victor — His Sequence on St. Stephen — Discovery of the Relics of St. Stephen — Honours of St. Stephen — St. Augustine — St. Chrysostom — Cornelius Lapide — Date of St. Stephen's Martyrdom — Peculiar Distinctions of St. Stephen — Dr. Monsell's "Gentle Witness" — The Three Aureoles — Martyrdom a proof of Convictions merely — Bishop Latimer 31; title: ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S DAY — December 27.; title: A Martyr in Will but not in Deed — Reason for the Order of St. John's Festival — Propriety of such a Festival — Its History — Call of St. John — His character and elevation of Mind — Venerable Bede — St. Jerome — Reasons for the production of St. John's Gospel — Five Reasons for Christ's peculiar Affection for St. John — All-Sufficiency of Love — Bishop Ken — Distinctions of St. John — St. Ambrose — Christ's Legacies — St. John at Jerusalem — On his Travels — Churches founded by St. John — At Ephesus — At Rome — The Caldron of Boiling Oil — Miraculous Preservation — Banishment to Patmos — Mrs. Alexander — St. John at Patmos — Again at Ephesus — Dying Blessing, and Death of St. John — Matthew Prior's poem on" Charity." 49; title: THE INNOCENTS' DAY — December 28.; title: Various Orders of Martyrs — Martyrs in Deed but not in Will — Antiquity of the Day — Innocence — Crashaw's Poem — Number of the Innocents — Character of Herod, by Neander — Fulfilment of Prophecy — Sorrow of the Church — Daniel's Thesaurus — Hymn of Prudentius — Salvete Flores Martyrum — Keble's Translation — The Gospel of Childhood — Affinity of Infancy and Heaven — Practical Philosophy of Christianity — Wordsworth's Ode 60; title: THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST — January 1.; title: History of the Day — Extravagances of the Heathen — The Devil's Festival — New Year Revellings — Sermon of Faustinus the Bishop — Legislation of Various Councils — "Octave of the Nativity" — Divers opinions on the Origin of the Circumcision — Maximus Taurinensis — Sacramentary of Popes Leo I. and Gelasius I., and of Gregory the Great — Decree of Reciswindus — Venerable Bede — Casaubon's Opinion — Council of Oxford — History of the Rite of Circumcision — Its Obligation on the Jews, and their Observance of it — Manner and circumstances of Circumcision — Prevalence of Circumcision — Philo Judseus — Pride of the Jews in Circumcision — The Circumcision of Christ a Fulfilling of the Law — A Proof of His veritable Humanity — Baseless Hypothesis of Cardinal Baronius — Poetical Treatment of the Festival — Jeremy Taylor — George Wither's Verses — Richard Crashaw — His Poem on the Circumcision — Robert Southwell — His Mceonice — Sorrows of the Virgin in the Circumcision — Christopher Harvey — Lines on the "Circumcision of the Heart," from "Schola Cordis" — Extract from Bishop Ken's Hymn — Jeremy Taylor on the Uses of Circumcision — Festival of the Name of Jesus — The Hymn Qloriosi Salratoris — Dr. Neale's Translation — Peculiar Offices for the Day — Collect 72; title: THE EPIPHANY; OR, THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST TO THE GENTILES. — January 6.; title: The Epiphany anciently Associated with the Nativity — Common Idea of Manifestation — Mr. Riddle — Fpiphania jprima et secunda — Dr. Hook — St. Augustine's Account of Events Commemorated in the Epiphany — Sanctity of the Season — Bingham's " Antiquities " — Legislation of the Emperors — Epiphany Declaration of the Moveable Feasts — Cassian — Epistolce Heortasticce — Epiphany in the Greek Church — One of the Great Baptismal Seasons — The Day of the Holy Lights — Various Ceremonies — Designations of Epiphany — Wheatly — Offices for the Day — Epiphany in the Western Church — Dramatic representation — Royal Bounty in England — Dr. Trench's "Star of the Wise Men" — Nature of the Star — Mystical or Real — Opinions of St. Chrysostom, Mar Eusebius, and Neander — Divine Guidance of the Heathen- Poetry of the Star — Bishop Heber's Epiphany Hymn — Anonymous American Poem — Rev. F. W. Kittermaster's "Epiphany" — Star of Balaam — Keble's Picture of Balaam — Country of the Wise Men — Alban Butler — Neander — The Natural Development of the Heathen Mind — Tacitus — Suetonius — Character of the Magi — Gradual Degradation of Position — Quality, Number, and Names of the Wise Men — Rev. R. S. Hawker's "Armenian Myth" — Dr. Faber's "Three Kings" — Subsequent History of the Wise Men — Their Relics at Constantinople, and Cologne — Dean Alford's Epiphany Salutation — John Rist — His Poem — Milton's Ode on the Nativity — Discomfiture of the Heathen Deities 93; title: LENT.; title: Philo Judaeus — "Every Day a Festival" — Practical Solution of this Rule — Rationale of Humiliation — Observance of Fasts — Diogenes Laertius — Abstinence of the Cynics — Of Epicurus, and Pythagoras — Legislation of Moses — One Fast of Obligation amongst the Jews — Superinduced Fasts — Significance of the Quadragesimal Period — Moses, Elias, Christ; the Law, the Prophets, and the Gospel — Fasts of our Lord and His Apostles — Rebuke of Pharisaic Fasting — When Fasting is commendable — Individual and Corporate Fasts — George Herbert's Poem on "Lent" — Institution of Lent — Diversities of Opinion and Practice — Tertullian — Iren® us — Sozomen — Socrates — Designations of Lent — Original Duration of Lent — St. Chrysostom — Epiphanius — Abstraction of Sundays, or of Saturdays and Sundays, from the Fast — Tithe of the Year — Institution of Ash- Wednesday — Legislation of the Councils of Orleans, Toledo, and Trent — Kin g Earconbert, of Kent — George Wither's Verses on "Lent" — Rationale of the Fast — St. Chrysostom — Cassian — Lenten Charity of the Emperors — Robert Herrick — "To keep a True Lent" — James Montgomery — "The Poor Wayfarer" — Sundays in Lent — Andrew of Crete — "Stichera for the Second Week of the Great Fast" — True Use of Lent — Its Wholesome Effects 122; title: ASH-WEDNESDAY.; title: Origin of Ash-Wednesday — Caput Jejunii — Radical Idea of Lent — Bishop Hooper — Purposes of Lent — Penitence and Contrition — Sir Archibald Edmons tone's Poem on Ash-Wednesday — Dr. Donne's "Hymn to God the Father" — A French Penitential Bonnet — Charles Wesley — His Poem on "Wrestling Jacob" — Ecclesiastical History of Ash-Wednesday — Bellarmine — Bingham — Gratian — Convocation of 1536 — Commination Office — Spirit of the Church — Commination Sonnets of Bishop Mant, and Wordsworth 145; title: HOLY WEEK; OR, PASSION WEEK.; title: In Lent, but more than Lent — Antiquity of Holy Week — St. Chrysostom — Various Pious Observances — Testimony of Epiphanius — Wheatly — Offices for Holy Week — Public Reading of the History of the Passion — Hymn from Dean Milman's "Martyr of Antioch" — Vernacular Names of Holy Week — Disintegration 161; title: Maundy Thursday — Vernacular Names — Ancient Names — Incidents of the Thursday before Easter — Sequence, De Superna AElierarchia — Rev. A. M. Morgan's Translation — George W. Bethune — His Poem on "Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet" — Southwell — "Christ's Bloody Sweat" — Jeremy Taylor's Lines "On Good Friday" — Council of Carthage — St. Augustine — Double Celebration of the Eucharist — Royal Almsgiving — Redditio Symboli — Reception of the Penitents — Manner of their Reconciliation 169; title: Good Friday. — Vernacular Names — Grief and Prostration of the Church — Herrick's " Rex Tragicus" — Dr. Bonar's "'Twas I that did it" — Liguori's Lines "To the Instruments of the Passion of Jesus" — Giles Fletcher — "Christ's Triumph over Death" — "Juxta Crucem" — Dean Milman's "Crucifixion" 179; title: Easter Eve ; on, Holy Saturday. — George Herbert on the "Sepulchre" — Solomon Franck's "Easter Even" — Lactantius — St. Jerome — The Paschal Vigil — Baptism of Catechumens 188; title: EASTER DAY.; title: The Perpetuation of a Hebrew Anniversary — Apostolic Authority of its Celebration — Disputes as to Time — Dean Stanley — The Easter Controversy — Council of Nicsea — Gradual Achievement of Uniformity — The two Paschs — Vernacular Equivalents — Conjectural Etymologies of "Easter" — Gregory Nazianzen — St. Chrysostom — George Herbert — Solemn Celebration of the Eucharist — Imperial Legislation — Gregory Nyssen — Immunities of Easter — Duration of Easter Rejoicings — Council of Macon — Constitutions of Egbright — St. Ambrose — Tertullian — St. Chrysostom — Council of Tours — Easter Greeting and Response — Rev. Phipps Onslow — "Christ is Risen" — Prime Idea of Easter — Poem by John of Damascus — Luther's Hymn on "Easter-Day" — Rev. Gerard Moultrie — "The Lord is Risen" — Light from Darkness — Historical Accessories of the Resurrection — Easter Aspects of Nature — Poem by Venantius Fortunatus — Easter Phenomena — Dean Alford's "Easter Ode" — Canon Oakeley's "Evening Benediction" — St. Paul's Exposition of Paschal Doctrine — Klopstock on the "Resurrection" — Certification of the Soul's Immortality — Crashaw's "Easter-Day" — Dr. Isaac Williams's Easter Sonnet — Professor Archer Butler — Easter Lessons 193; title: THE ASCENSION-DAY.; title: Antiquity of the Festival — Councils of Agde, and Orleans — Proclus — Tertullian — St. Chrysostom — Modem Designations — A Great Feast in the Eastern Church — Honours paid to the Day — Degradation — Bingham — Foreshadowings of the Ascension — Singular Glory of the Ascension of Christ — Gregory the Great — Benedict XIV. — Elias and Christ — Perfection of Christ's Activity — St. Bernard — Resurrection Greater than Ascension — The Psalms of David the Motive of Ascension Poetry — The Mount of Olives — Ode from the "Canon for Ascension" of St. Joseph of the Studium — Hymn, AEteme Hex Altissvme — Rev. E. Caswall's Translation — Charles Wesley's Ascension Hymn — Giles Fletcher — "Christ's Victory and Triumph" — Reception in Heaven — Dr. Monsell's "Link with Heayen" — Human Participation in Christ's Ascension — Verses by Rev. John Logan — Disputed Authorship — Celestial Law of Primogeniture — Dr. Donne's "Sonnet" — Dr. Watts — "Ascending to Christ in Heaven" — St. Augustine — Dr. Williams's "Sonnet." 223; title: PENTECOST, OR WHITSUNDAY.; title: The Gospel in the Law — Coincidences — St. Augustine — Pope Leo the Great — Twofold Significance of Pentecost — Tertullian — Council of Elvira — Duration and Privileges of the Season — Tertullian — Epiphanius — St. Augustine — Cassian — St. Ambrose — Mamercus, Bishop of Vienne — Institution of Litany, or Rogation Days — Councils of Orleans and Mayence — George Herbert — Richard Hooker — "Hallelujah" — Acts of the Apostles — Why read during Pentecost — St. Chrysostom's Reasons — Council of Toledo — Imperial Legislation — One of the Solemn Times of Baptism — Honours of the Season narrowed to a particular Day — Popes Leo the Great and Gelasius the First — Obligatory Communion — Council of Agde — Jewish Pentecostal Customs — Durandus — Dramatic Representations of Pentecostal Phenomena — Naogeorgus — Conjectures as to the Institution of Pentecost — Did St. Paul keep the Feast as a Jew, or a Christian? — Whitsunday — Paulinus, Bishop of Nola — Divers Etymologies — L'Estrange — Wheatly — Verstegan — Richard de Hampole — John Mirkus — Liber Festi - valis — Dr. Neale's Theory — Vernacular Names — Jam Christus attra ascenderat — Translation by Rev. E. Caswall — Jeremy Taylor's Verses — Sinai and Sion — Keble's Whitsunday — Minor Memorabilia — Number of the Inspired — Nature of the Tongues — The "Day of the Holy Ghost" — His Attributes and Activities — Vent Sancte Spiritus — Disputed Authorship — Dryden's Translation of Veni Creator Spiritus — Ecclesiastical Retrospection — George Herbert on "Whitsunday" — Herrick's" Litany to the Holy Spirit" — Perpetuation of this Poem at Dean Prior — Doctrine of Whitsunday — Dr. Williams — "Let there be Light!" — "On the Descent of the Holy Ghost" — Fiat Lux — Tardy Fulfilment of the Command — Second Whitsunday Sonnet, by Dr. Williams — Mr. J. W. Hopkins — His "Rushing Mighty Wind." 245; title: Bishop Heber's Hymn — Late Institution of the Festival — Pope John XXII. — The Baptismal Formula — Councils of Nicaea and Narbonne — Popes Alexander II. and Pelagius II. — Micrologus — Durandus — Rupert, Abbat of Duitz — Decretal of Alexander II. — Its Sense, according to Micrologus and Benedict XIV. — Carturfius — Charlemagne — Synod of the Franks — Stephen, Bishop of Liege — Dr. Waterland's Note on Wheatly — Octave of Pentecost — Protest of the Festival against Arianism — Rationale of tho Festival, by George Wither, Bishop Sparrow, Durandus, and Joachim Hildebrand — Reasons for the tardy Institution of Trinity Sunday — The Festival not of an Event, but of a Creed — Creeds the Result of Heresies — Dr. Barrow's Sermon — The Divine Nature has no Symbol or Analogue — For ever Incomprehensible — St. Augustine and the Child — George Wither's Hymn — Man, the Image of God — Thomas Heywood — His "Hierarchie," and "Search after God" — The True Attitude of the Soul in Contemplating the Trinity — Sir John Beaumont — His "Ode of tho Blessed Trinity" — Archbishop Hildebert's "Prayer to the Trinity" — Dr. Kynaston's Version — Canon Oakeley's Hymn, "The Most Holy Trinity" — Practical Connection of Prayer and Praise — The Universe a Temple — Man not the only Worshipper — Charles Wesley's Hymn — Doxology 276; title: ST. ANDREW'S DAY — November 30.; title: Birth-place and Family of St. Andrew — The first to propagate the Gospel — Vocation to the Apostolate — Dr. Monsell's Poem for St. Andrew's Day — "Domestic Care" — Antiquity of the Festival — Apostolic Province of St. Andrew — His Travels, Labours, and Martyrdom — His Address to the Cross — Paraphrased by Venerable Bede — Dr. Kynaston's Version — Uncertainty of the Date of St. Andrew's Death — His Relics removed to Constantinople — His stupendous Fortitude and Confidence — Campbell's "Last Man" 301; title: ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE — December 21.; title: Hymn from the Rugby Hymn-Book — Names of St. Thomas — Phases of Discipleship — Magnanimity of St. Thomas — Challenged by St. Chrysostom — Death made nasy by Fellowship — Bishop Ken's Poem "On St. Thomas" — Unbelief of St. Thomas — Was he really more Incredulous than the rest of the Apostles? — His gravest Fault — Value of Scepticism, and of his Scepticism — St. Augustine — Gregory the Great — Willingness to die — Promptness to Adore — Abraham Cowley — "Reason : the Use of it in Divine Matters" — Apostolic Province of St. Thomas — Travels and Labours in India — Death at Calamina — "Christians of St. Thomas" — Institution of the Festival — Extent of the Travels of St. Thomas — Madame Guion's Hymn — Version by Cowper — God, Father and Fatherland 310; title: THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL. January 25.; title: Roscoe's Sonnet — Durandus — Reasons for the exceptional Commemoration of the Conversion of St. Paul — George Wither's Hymn — Institution of the Festival — Innocent III. — His epistle to the Bishop of Worms — Baronius — Councils of Cognac and Oxford — History of the Day in our own Calendar — Note from Wheatly — St. Paul commissioned to the Gentiles — Activity in the West — Nelson's Argument for his Visit to Britain — At Rome — Anger of Nero — Decapitation — Burial — Did St. Peter and St. Paul suffer at the same time? — Dr. Cave's Opinion — Dr. Monsell's Poem on the "Conversion of St. Paul." 322; title: PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE, COMMONLY CALLED THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN — February 2.; title: Various Feasts of the Virgin — Conception — Nativity — Visitation — Assumption — Annunciation — Purification — The last two adopted by the English Church — The Purification a "Double Feast" — Bishop Sparrow — Disputed Antiquity of the Festival —; title: St. Chrysostom — Pope Gelasius — Not of Universal Celebration till the time of the Emperor Justinian — Testimony of Sigebert of Gembloux — And of Paulus Diaconus — Hyjpajpante — From what Adopted or Developed? — Joachim Hildebrand — L' Estrange — Dean Stanley — Various Derivations not Contradictory — Consecration of Tapers — Pope Sergius the First — Durandus — Symbolism and Lessons of the Tapers — St. Bernard's Sermon on the Purification — Phenomena and Rationale of Processions — Primary Idea of the "Double Feast" — Bingham's Argument from the name Hypapante — Names, ancient and vernacular — Humility, the special Virtue of the Virgin — Law of Purification — Benedict XIV. — Neander's Apology for the Purification — Bishop Jeremy Taylor's Hymn — Schola Cordis — "Humiliation of the Heart" — Complement of the Epiphany and the Angelic Message — "The Light to lighten the Gentiles" — Dr. Newman's "Lead kindly Light!" — Poem of Ephraim Syrus, "In AEpiphania et Prcesentatione Domini" — Dr. Monsell's "Daily Prayer" — Artistic and Poetic Affinities — Lessons of the "Double Feast." 331; title: ST. MATTHIAS. — February 24.; title: Institution of the Festival — Irregularity of Observance — St. Matthias probably one of the Seventy — The Election of St. Matthias, a Warning — Multiformity of Betrayal — Treason of Self-Indulgence — George Herbert's "Self-Condemnation" — "Who is the Traitor?" — Apostolic Province of St. Matthias — Julius Africanus — Nicephorus — Different Accounts of the Death of St. Matthias — And of the Disposal of his Remains — Poem from the "Christian Year" — "Who is God's chosen Priest?" 351; title: THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. — March 25.; title: Origin of the Commemoration — Various Theories — Benedict XIV. — Baronius — L'Estrange — Bingham — Primary character of the Feast — Council of Laodicea — Council in Trullo — Mr. Riddle's account of the Festival — Gelasius I. — Sergius I. — Council of Toledo — Names and Titles of the Day — St. Bernard — Ivo Camotensis — Artistic Treatment — The Lily, the peculiar Emblem of the Annunciation — Purity of the Virgin — Wordsworth's Sonnet on "The Virgin" — Occurrence of the Annunciation — At what time of the Day? — At what age of the Virgin? — Baronius — Cajetan — Catharinus — Doctrine and Distinctions of the Day — Alban Butler — Circumstances and Contents of the Annunciation — Vision of the fulfilment of Messianic Prophecies — Pope's "Messiah" — Honours of the Day — Mother and Son — Mary's Exemplification of the "Mind of Christ" — Submission of the Will — John Joseph Winkler — His Poem on "The Annunciation" — Happiness of the Soul that has no Will but God's 360; title: ST. MARK'S DAY — April 25.; title: The Three Marks — Slight New Testament mention of the Evangelist — Antiquity of the Festival — Dr. Waterland's Account — Council of Cognac — Universality — Reasons of the Celebration on 25th April — Origin of St. Mark's Gospel — Clement of Alexandria — Eusebius — Tertullian — St. Athanasius — Qualities and Language of the Gospel — Diversity of Gifts — Dr. Doddridge's Hymn — Labours and Martyrdom of St. Mark — Translation of Relics to Venice — AEvangelium secundum Hunc — Dr. Williams's Translation of the Hymn Vos Succensa Deo Splendida Lumina — Symbolical History of the Evangelists 373; title: ST. PHILIP AND ST. JAMES'S DAY — May 1.; title: The earliest Commemoration of the Apostles, an aggregate one — Gradual Allocation of Special Days — The Feast of All Apostles set apart for St. Philip and St. James — Origin of their Association — Institution of their Festival — The Greek Church commemorates them severally 382; title: St. Philip — His History — His anxiety to communicate — Mr. Wilcox — His Verses on "Christian Activity" — Question of Thomas and Philip — "I am the Way" — Bishop Hall's "Anthem for the Cathedral of Exeter" — Labours and Death of St. Philip — Was he Strangled, Crucified, or Stoned? — Buried at Hierapolis 383; title: St. James — Brother of the Lord — "He was seen of James" — Circumstances of the Apparition, according to the Gospel of the Hebrews — Bishop of Jerusalem — Asceticism of St. James — Constant in Prayer — George Herbert's Lines on "Prayer" — St. James taken to a Pinnacle of the Temple — Bears witness for Christ — The Popular "Hosanna" — The Scribes and Pharisees cast St. James headlong from the Temple — The mangled Apostle prays for his Murderers — His Brains at length beaten out — Epistle of St. James — "James the Just" — James Shirley — "The Memory of the Just is Blessed." 387; title: ST. BARNABAS THE APOSTLE — June 11.; title: Calestis Aula Principe s — Parentage of St. Barnabas — Bom in Cyprus — Educated at Jerusalem — Disciple of Gamaliel, and Fellow-disciple of St. Paul — Probably one of the Seventy — "Son of Consolation" — Introduces St. Paul to the Disciples at Jerusalem — Labours with him at Antioch — Their Co-operation during Fourteen Years — Separation — Uncertain History of St. Barnabas — Traditionary Labours in Cyprus — Martyrdom — Burial in a Cave near Salamis — Transference of his Belies to Constantinople by the Emperor Zeno — Catholic Epistle of St. Barnabas — Institution of his Festival — Imperfect Information — Keble's Poem — "The Son of Consolation, a Levite" 392; title: ST. JOHN BAPTIST'S DAY — June 24.; title: Position of St. John the Baptist with reference to the Mosaic and Christian Dispensations — In the Desert — Robert Montgomery's description from the " Messiah" — An Exceptional Celebration — Festum Decollations — Nativity of John the Baptist — Of Early Celebration in the Church — Councils of Agde and Oxford — Career, of John — His Baptizing of Christ — Dr. Newman's Verses on "Pusillanimity" — Collection and Distribution of the Belies of John the Baptist — Their Miraculous Virtues — Verses for the Day from the "People's Hymnal" 400; title: ST. PETER'S DAY — June 29.; title: St. Peter at Borne — Unnecessarily debated — Precedence of the Church of Jerusalem — Hospinian's Account of the Introduction of the Festival — Early Observance — Request of Festus to the Empress Ariadne — Splendour of Celebration — Family, Name, and Character of St. Peter — Stability by Falling — Poem from Quarles's "Emblems" — George Wither's Verses on "St. Peter's Day" — Later Character of St. Peter — Travels and Labours of the Apostle — At Borne — At Jerusalem — In Britain — Again at Borne — Simon Magus Deified — Shamed and Discomfited — Proposes to fly to Heaven — Falls headlong to the Ground, fatally bruised and mangled — St. Peter blamed by Nero for this Catastrophe — Imprisonment — Escape — Demine quo Vadis? — Crucifixion of St. Peter — His Tomb in the Vatican — St. Peter's at Borne — Nelson on the Personal Prerogative of St. Peter — John Newton — "Lovest thou Me?" 407; title: ST. JAMES THE APOSTLE — July 25.; title: Surnamed the Great — His Parentage and Family — A Son of Thunder — Salome's Ambition — Bishop Mant's Sonnets — "The Ambitious Disciples" — "Christian Ambition" — Various Phenomena of Ambition — Series of "Sonnets" — On the Mount of Transfiguration — Herbert Knowles — "The Three Tabernacles" — Hermogenes the Magus — Baffled and Converted — St. James slain by order of Herod Agrippa — Miracle on a Paralytic — Conversion of Josias, the chief Accuser of the Apostle — Association in Martyrdom — Peace, a dweller in a far Country — Verses by Henry Vaughan — Proto-Martyr of the Apostles — Death of Herod — Probable Burial of St. James at Jerusalem — Boasted Possession of his Belies at Compostella — Patron Saint of Spain — Early Local Celebration of the Festival — Later achievement of Universality 418; title: ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE — August 24.; title: Institution of the Commemoration — Bartholomew a Patronymic — Conjectural Etymologies — Identity of Bartholomew and Nathanael — Vocation of Nathanael — Neander — Gospel for the Day — George Herbert's "Elixir" — Travels of St. Bartholomew — Remarkable escape of Bartholomew from the fate of Philip at Hierapolis — Further Labours — In Armenia — Martyred and buried at Albanopolis — Various translations of his Belies — Finally they rest at Borne — William Habington — His poem, "Cupio Dissolvi," 427; title: ST. MATTHEW THE APOSTLE — September 21.; title: Presumed identity of Matthew and Levi — Office and Repute of the Publican — Renunciation of Fortune — Sonnet by Nicholas Breton — Austerity of the later Life of St. Matthew — Quarles's "Emblems" — "Delight in God only" — Gospel of St. Matthew — His Travels and Labours — Various Accounts of his Martyrdom — Commemoration — Its first Institution — George Herbert's lines, entitled "The Quip." 435; title: ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS — September 29.; title: Antiquity of Local Celebration — Sect of the "Angelites" — Council of Laodicea — Apparitions of St. Michael — At Chonee, in Phrygia — At Mount Garganus, in Apulia — On Mount Tumba — Mont St. Michel, in Normandy — St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall — Varieties of Celebration — Council of Mentz — Michael Comnenus — St. Michael, the Angel of the Resurrection — His special Offices — Drummond of Hawthomden — "On the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel" — Michael as Champion and Combatant — Gabriel, the Angel of the Annunciation — Raphael, and his Mission to the family of Tobit — Uriel, the Enlightener of Esdras — Spenser's "Ministration of Angels" — Angelic Duties, Employments, and Manifestations — Bishop Ken's Doctrine about Angels — Enforced in "Hymnotheo : or the Penitent" — Opinion of St. Ambrose — Ken's Verses "On St.Michael" — Number, Quality, and Nature of the Angels — Dr. Townsend — Relative Dignity of Men and Angels — Dionysius the Areopagite on the Celestial Hierarchy — Thomas Heywood — Angelic Precedence undecided — Richard Hooker on the Nature of Angels — Spirit becoming to this Festival — Its Suggestiveness and Sublimity — St. Joseph of the Studium — "Stars of the Morning" — Dr. Neale's Version — Joahann Rist — His lines on "St. Michael and All Angels" — Dr. Newman's Sonnet on "Angelic Guidance" — Mr. Keble's "Carved Angels" — Heaven, the Starting-point and Goal — Three Eras of the Universe — Thomas a' Kempis — "On the Joys of Heaven." 442; title: ST. LUKE THE EVANGELIST — October 18.; title: No Certain Account of the Origin of the Festival — Mr. Riddle — Dr. Waterland — Mr. Brady — Was Luke one of the Seventy? — Assertion and Counter- Assertion — A Middle Theory — Was Luke a Painter? — Denied by Hospinian — A Physician of Bodies and of Souls — Rev. Gerard Moultrie's Hymn for St. Luke's Day — The All-Healer — On the way to Emmaus — Lines from Cowper's "Conversation" — Gospel of St. Luke — Approved and favoured by St. Paul — Dr. Watts — "Christ the Substance of the Levitical Priesthood" — Dr. Kynaston — "Only Luke is with me" — "Acts of the Apostles" — Labours of St. Luke — Various accounts of his Death — His Relics translated to Constantinople. 465; title: ST. SIMON AND ST. JUDE, APOSTLES — October 28.; title: Reason of Joint Commemoration 473; title: St. Simon — Styled the Canaanite, and Zelotes — Sect of the Zealots — Call of St. Simon to the Apostolate — His Labours — Traditionary joint Martyrdom with St. Jude — "Schola Cordis" — "The Inflaming of the Heart." 473; title: St. Jude — Of our Lord's Kindred — Called Labbseus and Thaddeus — His Apostolic Province — Meets his brother Simon in Mesopotamia — They engage in contests with two famous Magi — Power of the Apostles over the Demons — Their Fellowship in Death — Eusebius — Interview of the Emperor Domitian with the grandsons of St. Jude — Christ's Kingdom not of this World — Gnosticism the Apostolic Antichrist — Tenets and tendencies of that System — Its Ethics — Encouragement of Sensuality — Indifference of External Actions — Antagonism to distinctive Christian Doctrines — Poem for the Day from the "Christian Year." 476; title: ALL SAINTS' DAY.; title: The Pantheon — M. Agrippa — Dedication of the Pantheon — Christian Treatment of Pagan Temples — Emperors Theodosius and Honorius — Gregory the Great — The Emperor Phocas makes a Grant of the Pantheon to Boniface IV. — Bede's Account of the Conversion of the Pantheon — Santa Maria ad Martyres — Consecration of a Chapel to All Saints by Pope Gregory III. — Institution of the Festival — Gradual attainment of Universality — Exaggerated Respect for the Departed — Images of the Saints — Dean Milman's Statement of the Doctrine of Saints in the Ancient Latin Church — Dion Chrysostom — Frequency of Canonization — Multiplication of Shrines — Assumption by Pope Alexander III. of the Prerogative of Canonization — Local Saints — Tutelary Saints — Superstition works upward from below — Luther's "Table Talk" — Wordsworth's Sonnet on "Saints" — St. Augustine's Doctrine — Richard Hooker — Chivalrous clinamen to a Worship of the Virgin — George Herbert's Poem, "To all Angels and Saints" — Sainthood of Reality, and of External Canonization — Church Militant and Church Triumphant — The Great Multitude — Topics of the All Saints' Muse — Saints of All Conditions — Antagonism of Flesh and Spirit — John Newton's Poem — "Inward Warfare" — Saints without the Limits of Christianity — Hidden Saints — Dr. Newman's Poem on "Heathenism" — Ideal Sanctity of Men, Angels, and Infants — Bishop of Winchester's Poem on "All Saints" — Sir Archibald Edmonstone — Sonnets on "The Church Militant," and "The Church Triumphant" — Present State of Departed Saints — "Book of Wisdom" — Incomplete Beatitude — The Resurrection Gathering of the Saints — Communion of Saints — Hooker — The Sword and the Palm — The Pro-Epistle — Sealing of the Elect of the Twelve Tribes — Schenck's Poem on "All Saints' Day" — Teaching of the Festival — Collect for the Day — John of Damascus — "Idiomela for All Saints" — The Future Glory. 482