Starlike Camomile. _Boltonia Asteroides._
Dedicated to _St. Placidus_.
[340] Ante, p. 1308.
[341] Who this modern poet was, says Mr. C., is a secret worth
discovering.--The wood-cut on the title of the Pamphlet is--an Ass
with a wreath of laurel round his neck.
[342] Milton: _from memory_.
~October 6.~
_St. Bruno_, Founder of the Carthusian Monks, A. D. 1101. _St. Faith_
or _Fides_, and others.
_St. Faith._
This name in the church of England calendar and almanacs belongs to a
saint of the Romish church.
According to Butler, St. Faith was a female of Aquitain, put to death
under Dacian. He says she was titular saint of several churches in
France, particularly that of Longueville in Normandy, which was enriched
by Walter Giffard, earl of Buckingham. He also says she was “patroness
of the priory of Horsam, in the county of Norfolk;” that “the
subterraneous chapel of St. Faith, built under St. Paul’s, in London,
was also very famous;” and that “an arm of the saint was formerly kept
at Glastenbury.” Nevertheless, Mr. Audley thinks, that as the ancient
Romans deified Faith according to the heathen mythology, and as
christian Rome celebrates on August 1st the passion of the holy virgins,
Faith, Hope, and Charity, it is highly probable these virtues have been
mistaken for persons; and, admitting this, Dr. M. Geddes smartly says,
“they may be truly said to have suffered, and still to suffer martyrdom
at Rome.” Mr. Audley adds, “There is indeed the church of St. Faith at
London; but as our calendar is mostly copied from the Romish one, that
will account for the introduction of the good virgin amongst us.”[343]