But there is a
legend of another Blasius of Caesarea in Cappadocia, who is represented
as an owner of herds ([Greek: boukolos]), and remarkable for his charity
to the poor. His herdsman's staff was planted over the spot where he was
martyred, and grew into an umbrageous tree.
This variation of legends favours the idea that the cultus of Blasius
was founded upon that of some deity worshipped in Cappadocia, whose
rites and attributes may have varied in different localities.
C.W.G.
_Sangred--Judas Bell._--"BURIENSIS" inquires (p. 124.) what _sangred_
is. This term is noticed in Rock's _Church of Our Fathers_, t. ii. p.
372. In the very interesting, "Extracts from Church-warden's Accounts,"
p. 195., it is asked what "Judas' bell" was. I presume it to have been a
bell named after, because blessed in honour of the apostle St. Jude,
who, in the Greek Testament, in the Vulgate, and our own early English
translations, as well as old calendars, is always called Judas, and not
Jude, as a difference from Judas Iscariot.
CEPHAS.
_La Mer des Histoires._--"MR. SANSOM" (No. 18. p. 286.) has inquired,
What is known of Columna's book, entitled _Mare Historiarum_? Trithemius
has made mention of the work (_De Script. Eccles_. DL.), and two
manuscript copies of it are preserved in the Royal Library at Paris.
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