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THE WORKS OF SIR DAVID LINDSAY
Clement, St : Papyngo 989, " Clement.”
Pope Clement I. (? 90-? 99), saint, martyr. Roman by birth, and
converted by either St Peter or St Paul, whom he accompanied on travels.
Wrote an epistle to the Corinthians. Pope for ten years, following
Pope Cletus; died ? 99, an exile and martyr in the Crimea. Day:
November 23.
Cletus, St : Papyngo 989, “ Cleit.”
Pope Anacletus I. (? 79-? 90), saint. Greek name Anacletus;
Latin name Cletus, blameless. The Roman martyrology has two saints :
St Anacletus, July 13, believed to have succeeded Pope Clement; and
St Cletus, April 23, believed to have preceded Pope Clement.
Clune, St : Sat. 1371, “ be Sanct Clone ” ; Sat. 4388, “ be Sanct
Clune.”
St Cluanus, Irish abbot, sixth century. Day : January 1.
Cosma and Damian, SS : Mon. 2309, " sanct Cosma and Damiane.”
Two of five brothers, and always represented together ; Arabians by
birth, living in Cicilia ; studied medicine and surgery to serve the
poor; imprisoned during the Diocletian persecutions, and beheaded
after torture. In art they appear as physicians in dark red robes, holding
a box of ointment in one hand, surgical instruments in the other. Day :
September 27.
Crispin and Crispanian, SS : Sat. 1350, " Sanct Crispine ” ; Mon.
2310, " The Sowtars sanct Crispaniane.”
Martyrs; shoemakers, and victims of Diocletian; beheaded at
Soissons, 287. Patron saints of shoemakers and cobblers, and repre¬
sented with cobbler’s tools, or strips of leather. Day : October 25.
Damian. St : see Cosma and Damian, SS.
David, St : Trag. 414-20, " Kyng Dauid . . . / The quhilk did found so
mony fair Abbayis ” ; Sat. 2952-61, " King David . . . / The quhilk did
found sa mony gay Abayis/ . . ; Sat. 2964-2975, " For in Scotland
thair did s;it never ring, / I let the wit, ane mair excellent King, / . . . /
And now in heavin he is ane michtfull Sanct, / Becaus that fyftein Ab-
basies he did found / .. . / sic ane halie Sanct " ; Mon. 4427-32, “ Dauid,
of Scotland kyng, / The quhilk did founde, duryng his ryng, / Fyftene
Abbayis, with temporall lands.”
David I. (1084-1153), King of Scotland 1124-1153. For life, see note
to Trag. 414-20. He is not recorded as a saint in The Book of Saints,
London : Black, 1924, or in Baring-Gould, but the Encycl. Univ. Ulus.,
Madrid, n.d. (c. 1920-1934), 70 vols. and 10 suppl. vols., Vol. XVII.
1105, art. " David I.,” says, “ Su madre fue canonizada, y el mismo
ha sido llamado largo tiempo en Escocia el santo rey David.”
Eulogy by Aelred of Rievaulx, rept. Pinkerton, Vitce Antiques Sanc¬
torum Scotics (1789), p. 437. Day: (not traced). Jim,