Earth Moss. _Phascum cuspidatum._
Dedicated to _St. Chrysostom._
~January 28.~
_St. Agnes._--Second Commemoration.
_St. Cyril_, A. D. 444. _Sts. Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus._ _St.
John of Reomay_, A. D. 540. Blessed _Margaret_, Princess of Hungary,
A. D. 1271. _St. Paulinus_, A. D. 804. Blessed _Charlemagne_, Emperor,
A. D. 814. _St. Glastian_, of Fife, A. D. 830.
_St. Thyrsus._
Several churches in Spain are dedicated to him. In 777, the queen of
Oviedo and Asturia presented one of them with a silver chalice and
paten, a wash-hand basin and a pipe, which, according to Butler, is “a
silver pipe, or quill to suck up the blood of Christ at the communion,
such as the pope sometimes uses--it sucks up as a nose draws up air.”