Y Cymmrodor: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Volume 23Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1912 - Wales |
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Page 238 - Salvete flores Martyrum, Quos lucis ipso in limine Christi insecutor sustulit, Ceu turbo nascentes rosas.
Page 264 - What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad ? And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
Page 16 - Yes, with an inferior and relative honour, as they relate to Christ and his saints, and are memorials of them.
Page 11 - And three Scots came to king Alfred in a boat without any oars from Ireland, whence they had stolen away, because they desired for the love of God to be in a state of pilgrimage, they recked not where.
Page 264 - But they constrained him saying, Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.
Page 15 - Epiphany, one day of manifestation. In every minute that strikes upon the Bell, is a syllable, nay a syllogisme from God. And, and in my last Bell, God shall speake too; that Bell, when it tolls, shall tell me I am going, and when it rings out, shall tell you I am gone into the hands of that God, who is the God of the living and not of the dead, for, they dye not that depart in him.
Page 79 - ... lacopo o riede. E però è da sapere che in tre modi si chiamano propriamente le genti che vanno al servigio de l'Altissimo: chiamansi palmieri in quanto vanno oltremare, là onde molte volte recano la palma; chiamansi peregrini in quanto vanno a la casa di Galizia, però che la sepultura di sa...
Page 392 - It usually lay on a gravestone in the churchyard. When mad people were brought to be dipped in the saint's pool, it was necessary to perform certain ceremonies, in which there was a mixture of Druidism and Popery. After remaining all night in the chapel, bound with ropes, the bell was set upon their head with great solemnity. It was the popular opinion that, if stolen, it would extricate itself out of the thief s hands, and return home, ringing all the way. For some years past this bell has been...
Page 496 - Crusades, go back to the end of the eighth century or the beginning of the ninth and to the feudal system in the days of the Normans.
Page 398 - The patient made an offering to the nymph of the spring of a crooked pin, and sent up at the same time a certain ejaculation, by way of charm: but the charm is forgotten, and the efficacy of the waters lost. The well is common.