Ecclesiastical ring gold, stone-set ring. Roman Catholic bishops traditionally have their episcopal ring set with an amethyst. Aside from the rings a bishop purchases or is given by others, his rings belong to the Church; he will have inherited the previous bishop's ring collection, which is held in trust. While all hierarchs are accorded the honor of being buried wearing a ring, all rings belonging to the Church will be returned to the Church upon the retirement or death of any hierarch. In a Decree of Pope Boniface IV (A.D. 610) it describes monks raised to the episcopal dignity as "anulo pontificali
Ring a Ring o' Roses "Blackwell's Island"): 'Then the little girls began to seek their own amusements. They played "hide and seek," "ring, ring a rosy," and a thousand wild and pretty games'. Another early printing of the rhyme was in Kate Greenaway's 1881 edition of "Mother Goose; or, the Old Nursery Rhymes": <poem> Ring-a-ring-a-roses, A pocket full of posies; Hush! hush! hush! hush! We're all tumbled down.</poem> In 1882, Godey's Lady's Book has the following version: <poem> Ring around a rosy Pocket full of posies. One, two, three—squat!</poem> Before the last line, the children stop suddenly, then exclaim it together, "suiting the action to