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In Christian and Mediæval Times: Joseph

There was also a remarkable blessing to be pronounced over bees, found upon the cover of a book dated 1570, in a certain library in Germany. Being translated, it reads thus:- "Maria stood upon a very high mountain. She beheld a swarm of bees flying towards her. She raised her beneficent hand. She forbade it to depart and made to it promises of happiness. She placed for it a hive that Saint Joseph had made. Into that she bade it enter and there enjoy life, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen."

An exorcism to the queen of the hive is also found in a Latin ecclesiastical work : - " I implore thee, mother of the bees, through God the King of Heaven and through the Redeemer the Son of the Lord, that thou fliest not high, nor far, but that rather thou comest at once to a tree; there gather with all thy kind, or with thy companions. "There have I prepared for thee a good hive, that there thou mayst labor in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen."