. The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work. s gratefully on this young prince, reared inexile among the hereditary enemies of his race, who wasconsoled for the loss of a throne by his conversion toChristianity, who regained the kingdom of his fathers at thepoint of the sword, and planted the first cross on his nativesoil at the moment when he freed it from the usurper,crowned by the love and devotion of the people on whomhe bestowed the blessings of peace and of supreme truth,spending
. The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work. s gratefully on this young prince, reared inexile among the hereditary enemies of his race, who wasconsoled for the loss of a throne by his conversion toChristianity, who regained the kingdom of his fathers at thepoint of the sword, and planted the first cross on his nativesoil at the moment when he freed it from the usurper,crowned by the love and devotion of the people on whomhe bestowed the blessings of peace and of supreme truth,spending his very life for its sake \ united for a few shortyears to a wife whom, in marrying, he had made a Christian;gentle and strong, serious and sincere, pious and intelligent,humble and bold, active and gracious, a soldier and amissionary, a king and a martyr, slain in the flower of hisage on the field of battle, fighting for his country, andpraying for his subjects. Where shall we find in all historya hero more nearly approaching the ideal, more richlygifted, more worthy of eternal remembrance, and, it must beadded, more completely forgotten ? ^ .{,. » THE the Vienna Missal. Aug., p. 74.] [Aug. 6. • August 6.] The Transfiguration of our Lord. 75 August 6. The Transfiguration of Our Lord, on Mount Tabor. S. Sixrus II., Pope, M. at Rome; 258. SS. Justus and Pastor, MM. at Akala de Henares in Spain ; 304. S. HoRMiSDAS, Pope of Rome ; AccA, B. of Hexkajn; circ. ScHETZELO,^. at Luxemburg; circ. 1138. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD. [Roman Martyrology ; that attributed to S. Jerome. In a Kalendar ofthe Church of Cologne of the gth cent., on July 27. In the Greek Churchit is called the Feast of Tabor. Also the Coptic Kalendar. Anglicanreformed Kalendar.] |;HIS festival is kept by the Eastern and WesternChurches in commemoration of the Transfigura-tion of our Lord on Mount Tabor, before Hispassion, as recorded in Matt. x
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