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13. Siméon Stylite, Srmeon Stylites, a Syrian ascetic died in 459; is said to have lived twenty six years on top of a pillar.

28. Saint Nicolas de Patras. A bishop of Myra, Lycia in Asia Minor, became a patron saint of the Roman and Greek Churches. Flis day is the 6th of December. A story relates that he gave a dowry to three daughters of a poor nobleman, making his gifts mysteriously and during the night. Hence the Christmas tradition of St. Nicholas in some countries and Santa Claus (corruption of Nicholaus) in others. He was born in Patra, about 300 A. D.

38.-— 3. Saint Benoît Labre (1748-1783), a Carthusian monk, bcrn in the northern part of France, who lived on alms and spent his life in utter destitution, begging at the doors of churches, He is remembered in the imaginations of the people as a man who considered uncleanliness a virtue and reached saintliness by violating all the rules of hygiene and decency.

17. les fils de Saint François, #%e sons of St. Francis, ox members of the Franciscan order. They wear on penitential days an undergarment, or shirt, of haircloth as a means of mortifying the flesh.

24. Antoine — Saint Anthony (251-356), a famous anchorite who lived for many years in the desert of Egypt. — Jerôme (340-420) was a Latin Father who prepared the translation of the Bible known as Vulgate,.

27. labyrinthe: This name is given to a small hill at the north western part of the garden.

29. Saint Paul l’Ermite was another anchorite who, like St. Anthony. lived in the desert of Thebaid in Egypt. He died in BAT A: D.

39.— 4. Marie l’Égyptienne was born in Egypt in the fifth centurv. After many years spent in dissipation she is said to have become a convert and gone to the desert where she remained forty-seven years, performing miracles.