Yellow Rattle. _Rhinanthus Galli._
Dedicated to _St. Peter_.
[201] Rome in the Nineteenth Century.
~June 30.~
_St. Paul_, the Apostle. _St. Martial_, Bp. of Limoges, 3d Cent.
_St. Paul._
Paul, the apostle, was martyred, according to some accounts, on the 29th
of June, in the year, 65; according to others in the month of May,
66.[202] A Romish writer fables that, before he was beheaded, he “loked
vp into heuen, markynge his foreheed and his breste with the sygne of
the crosse,” although that sign was an after invention; and that, “as
soone as the heed was from the body,” it said “Jesus Christus fyfty
tymes.”[203] Another pretends from St. Chrysostom, that “from the head
of St. Paul when it was cut off there came not one drop of blood, but
there ran fountains of milk;” and that “we have by tradition, that the
blessed head gave three leaps, and at each of them there sprung up a
fountain where the head fell: which fountains remain to this day, and
are reverenced with singular devotion by all Christian Catholics.”[204]
The fictions of the Romish church, and its devotions to devices, are
innumerable.
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