HATH XXXI DAYS. First Lesson. Second Lesson. 1 A 2 5 Epiphany. 3 4 to v. 23 3 v. 15 to v. 23 JANUARY MORNING PRAYER. 8 Lucian, P. & M.. 9 10 c 12 4v. 23 to 5. v. 13 5 v. 13 to v. 33 11 to v. 10 13 15 17 to v. 23 18 v. 17 20 Galatians -16 v. 24 to 17 v. 14 17 v. 14 great integr EVENING PRAYER. First Lesson. Second Lesson. artyrdom in t Decius; and a ring his na und in the cr cemetery on t Frgin and Mar kept), as a t nnocence. Martyr. , of Saragoss Epiphany. Lucian, P. & M... Isaiah 49 v. 13 to v. 24 Genesis 7 9 to v. 20 John Acts 9 12 14 11 16 7 to v. 35 13 f 14 g 15 A Hilary, Bp. & C.. 16 17 18 19 e 20 f Prisca, V. & M.. Fabian, Bp. & M.. 25 Conv. of St. Paul.. 26 27 28 30 31 39 43 to v. 25 45 v. 25 to 46 v. 8 16 v. 16 17 to v. 16 17 v. 16 18 to v. 24 -18 v. 24 to 19 v. 21 26 to v. 21 15 v. 30 to 16 v. 16 FEBRUARY. 3rd. Blasius, Bishop and Martyr.-("St. Blaise ")-Bishop of Sebaste, in Armenia, of whom nothing is known, but the tradition that he was tortured (torn by iron combs) and beheaded under Diocletian (A.D. 316). He was honoured as Patron of the Woolcombers, and of the city of Ragusa. 5th. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr.-Like St. Agnes a type of purity vainly assailed, and (in revenge) martyred with torture under Decius (or Diocletian) at FEBRUARY HATH XXVIII DAYS, And in every Leap-Year 29 Days MORNING PRAYER. First Lesson. Gen. 46 v. 26 to 47 v. 13 13 to v. 17 Second Lesson. Matthew Genesis 48 50 2345678 9 10 21 c Fast. St. Matthias, Ap.. 1 Sam. 2 v. 27 to v. 36 Exodus. 34 v. 27 39 v. 30 40 v. 17 Leviticus 14 to v, 23 25 to v. 23 28 v. 29 to v. 42 31 32 v. 15 33 v. 12 to 34 v. 10 Mark 18 to v. 21 18 v. 21 to 19 v. 3 19 v. 3 to v. 27 19 v. 27 to 20 v. 17 20 v. 17 21 to v. 23 21 v. 23 22 to v. 15 22 v. 15 to v. 4122 v. 41 to 23 v. 13 23 v. 13 24 to v. 29 24 v. 29 25 to v. 31 25 v. 31 26 to v. 31 26 v. 31 to v. 57 26 v. 57 v. 27 27 v. 27 to v. 57 27 v. 57 28 1 to v. 21 1 v. 21 2 to v. 23 2 v. 23 to 3 v. 13 19 to v. 19 Matthew 3 v. 13 4 to v. 35 7 MARCH. 1st. David, Archbishop, the patron Saint of Wales. According to the accepted traditions he was son of a Welsh prince, founder and abbot of a monastery; thence drawn to take victorious part in the Pelagian controversy, and made Archbishop of Caerleon, whence he removed the see far west to the Menevia (St. David's), possibly in connection with some mission to Ireland. His death is fixed at different dates, from A.D. 541 to 601. (The earliest extant account of him was not written till 500 years after his death, and has many legendary elements in it). 2nd. Chad, Bishop (Ceadda).By birth a Northumbrian, but brought up in Ireland, and at Lindisfarne under St. Aidan, one of the representatives of the independent refounding of Christianity in the North (after the expulsion of Paulinus, who had been sent to York as missionary bishop from Canterbury in 625) by the Irish ("Scottish") missionaries. Made Bishop of York, in rivalry to the absent Wilfrid (664), he was deposed by Archbishop Theodore in favour of Wilfrid (669); and, after a brief retirement, established as Bishop in the kingdom of Mercia, at Lichfield, where he died in 672. Bede gives a beautiful picture of his simple character and saintly life and death. 7th. Perpetua, Martyr.-One of the African martyrs under Severus (A.D. 203). The "Acts of St. Perpetua,' written in part by herself, have been preserved to us. They are full of vividness and beauty, although showing some touches of the visionary and ascetic tendencies of Montanism. 12th. Gregory the Great, Bishop. -Bishop of Rome (590-604), the real founder of the greatness of the Papacy. Of noble birth, and high rank and education, he became a monk, and continued till the end his love for monastic life and principles. Made Pope against his will in 590, he rose to the exigencies of the critical time, when the extinction of the Western Empire made him at once Bishop of the Roman Church, Patriarch of the West, and virtual sovereign and representative of Rome itself; and proved himself as a ruler and organizer, a preacher and writer, unquestionably the greatest man of his age. His pontificate was marked by the conversion from Arianism of the Spanish Visigoths and the Lombards; and by the English Church he deserves special commemoration, as having been (through St. Augustine of Canterbury) the true Apostle of Anglo-Saxon Christianity. He was the introducer of the "Gregorian" music, superseding the simpler Ambrosian; and his Sacramentary, following the earlier one of Gelasius, is a great storehouse of the ancient Liturgical forms of the Western Church, from which our Collects are largely borrowed. 18th. Edward, King of the West Saxons (A.D.975-978).-The youthful son of King Edgar, murdered, at the age of 16, by order of his step-mother Elfrida, at Corfe Castle, while drinking the stirrup cup, and canonized for his piety and his devotion to the ecclesiastical and monastic cause. 21st. Benedict (of Nursia) Abbot (A.D. 480-543). The founder of the great Benedictine order at Monte Cassino, on the site of an old temple of Apollo, and author of the Benedictine rule. Of noble birth, repelled by the licentiousness and utter confusion of his age, he dedicated himself from boyhood to a monastic life, and revived monasticism from degeneracy to a lofty and refined ideal, free from excessive austerity, and admitting of high culture and learning. His own character, though not without severity, was full of beauty and holi ness. the crit ction of: de him 2 Chad, Bishop... Second Lesson. 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