FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Tried Mallow. Malva Sylvestris.
Dedicated to St. Phocas.
July 4.
St. Ulric, or Udalric. St. Odo, Abp. of Canterbury, 10th Cent. St. Sisoes, or Sisoy, A. D. 429. St. Bertha, 8th Cent. St. Finbar, of Crimlen. St. Bolcan, disciple of St. Patrick.
St. Ulric.
He was son of count Hucbald, one of the first dukes of higher Germany. He became bishop of Augsburg, and rebuilt the celebrated cathedral there, in 962, dedicating it to St. Afra, patroness of that city, and died eighty years old, in 973, on ashes laid in the form of a cross upon a floor. Customs peculiar to this day are related in these verses:—
St. Huldryche.
Wheresoeuer Huldryche hath his place, the people there brings in
Both carpes, and pykes, and mullets fat, his fauour here to win.
Amid the church there sitteth one, and to the aultar nie,
That selleth fish, and so good cheepe, that euery man may buie:
Nor any thing he loseth here, bestowing thus his paine,
For when it hath beene offred once, ’tis brought him all againe,
That twise or thrise he selles the same vngodlinesse such gaine
Doth still bring in, and plentiously the kitchin doth maintaine.
Whence comes this same religion newe? what kind of God is this
Same Huldryche here, that so desires, and so delightes in fish?[207]