[171] Exodus xii. 11.

[172] 1 Peter iv. 8.

[173] Book iv., chap. 5.

[174] St. Luke xxii. 64.

[175] For the foregoing particulars see Challoner’s Catholic Christian Instructed.

[176] Dr. Alemanny, Life of St. Dominic.

[177] Falsely called rose des Alps by the French.

[178] The real “Alpenrose” of the Tyrolese is a strange-looking growth, a starry flower of a dull white, with thick velvety petals, five in number. It grows only in very inaccessible places, and is considered a great prize.

[179] Lectures and Essays, p. 48.

[180] See Claudian, De Sexto Consulatu Honorii, v. 43.