It appears then, that the ecclesiastics of the church of Salisbury were among the “moderns” of Alban Butler, “who imagined” of the seven sleepers as related in the legend, and so imagining, taught the “stuff,” as bishop Patrick calls it, to their flocks. Yet Alban Butler weeps over the Reformation, which swept the “imaginations” of his “moderns” away, and he would fain bring us back to the religion of the imaginers.
FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Purple Loosestrife. Lythrum Salicaria.
Dedicated to St. Pantaleon.
[227] Golden Legend.
[228] In his “Reflections on the Devotions of the Romish Church.”
July 28.
Sts. Nazarius and Celsus, A. D. 68. St. Victor, Pope, A. D. 201. St. Innocent I. Pope, A. D. 417. St. Sampson, A. D. 564.