Hone’s Everyday Book (page 2/6)

Palm Sunday Procession

“Palm Sunday
This is the first Sunday before Easter, and is sometimes called Passiom Sunday. It is denominated Palm Sunday, because on this day the Roman catholic church ordains boughs or branches of palm trees to be carried in procession, in imitation of those strewed before Christ when he rode into Jerusalem. In this monkish procession the host was carried upon an ass, branches and flowers were strewed on the road, and others were hung up. The palms were consecrated [...]Ash Wednesday in the following year, as before-mentioned (see p. 261) on that day.” (p. 391) [more...]

Front Cover, Hone’s Everyday Book

The cover of my copy of Hone’s Everyday Book.

Bona Dea - The Earth

(Frontispiece) [more...]

January

(page 2; there is one of these for each month) [more...]

Gymnastics for Youth

Children play on swings and on a climbing frame in a park.

St. Simon Stylites, Hermit of the Pillar

(page 35) [more...]

Aquarius, or, the Water Bearer.

“The sun enters Aquarius on this day [21st January], though he does not enter it in the visible zodiac until the 18th of February. [more...]