Gerald closes the book and his writings with a picture

' The trade in r^ics began as early as the fonrth century ; the
monks, who were the principal merchants, could noi always
guarantee their wares, hence, numerous duplicates. Gerpid gives a
story of a knight who refused to kiss the true head of St. Denis* he
had kissed the true head elsewhere, and had not heard that the saint
had more than one. The fourth Lateran Council attempted to stop
the sale of relics.
' The election of the Bishops was originally in the clergy and
people, afterwards the laity were eliminated. In England the
election of Bishops of the Established Church is still regulated
by 35 Henry VIII. cap so, but in the Roman Church the Pdpe
•elects out of the Ust submitted by the chapter.
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of the day of doom — the great congregation of popes
andpriestSy kings and eommons, the sheep and the
goats— the unfaithful to go to their own place, and the
faithful to the enjoyment of those good things which
God hath prepared for those that love Him.
It would almost seem that Gerald had before him
that grandest of all the hynms of the universal Gfaurcfa,
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Tuba, minun spargens soniim
Per sepnlchra regionvm,
Coget omnes ante Thronum. -

Inter oves locmn pnBata»

£t ab haedis me sequestra.
Statoens in parte dextdL
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Rez tremendae majestatiBk

Qui salvandos salvas gratiSk

Sahra me, Fons Fietatis." ^> ..
