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tonished public, at the Rtformation. There were
a vial of the Virgin's milk ; the shoulder blade of
St. Benedict ; the fingers of St. Alpbage ; the
head of St. Maxilla ; a holy jaw of St. Anastatia ;
als6 the parings of St. Edmond's toes, and a few
of the coals which roasted the martyr St Lau-
rence. John Calvin has stated that the point of
the same lance that pierced Christ is exhibited in
four different places : and his entire seamless robe
possesses ubiquity. It is shown at a chapel near
Paris ; it is also shown entire at Triers, and also
entire at St. Salvador, in Spain ! And Pennant
in his " Dover,*' quotes the legend that St Aus-
tin brought a part of this same robe to England,
and put' it in the Abbey. The cathedral of Glas-
gow was well supplied with these religious ma-
terials of " the Man of Sin." But, I must refer
for a list of these to McGavin's Glasgow Protest-
ant.* But the following is too precious to be
omitted. At the Abbey in Vendome, the priests
exhibit a crystal vial containing the tears shed
by Christ at the grave of Lazarus. Among the
Relics in " the eternal city," they show a vial
containing the breath of St. Josepn, collected by
an angel, when breathing hard as be was cutting,
wood. Finallv, McCulloch in his spirited work,
** Popery condemned by Scripture and the Fa-
thers," states from a traveller, thdA five happy and

* Vol. i., chapters 52 and 53.
