Winter’s thunder’s summer’s wonder.
FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Mouse Ear. Hieracium Pilosella.
Dedicated to St. Eric.
May 19.
St. Peter Celestine, Pope, A. D. 1296. St. Pudentiana. St. Dunstan; Abp. of Canterbury, A. D. 988.
St. Dunstan.
He was born at Glastonbury, of which monastery he became abbot, and died archbishop of Canterbury in 988.[146]
The legend of St. Dunstan relates many miracles of him, the most popular of which is to this effect; that St. Dunstan, as the fact really was, became expert in goldsmith’s work; it then gives as a story, that while he was busied in making a chalice, the devil annoyed him by his personal appearance, and tempted him; whereupon St. Dunstan suddenly seized the fiend by the nose with a pair of iron tongs, burning hot, and so held him while he roared and cried till the night was far spent.