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not a little to confirm us in the faith with which we devoutly reverence these things. The Count of Harrach, who was greatly favoured by the Duke of Saxony, besought him that he would be pleased to bestow upon him some of the very many relics in his treasury, which he preserved rather for curiosity than for devotion. The Duke with much benignity ordered that various glasses, should be given him, full of precious relics of Christ, of the most holy Virgin, the Apostles, the Innocents, and other various Saints, and desired two Lutheran ministers to pack them with all decency in a valuable box, which the Duke himself locked, and sealed with his own seal, to prevent any fraud, and then sent it to Vienna. The box arrived at Vienna, and was deposited in the Count's chapel, which is in Preiner Street; the Count sent word to the Bishop that he might come to see open and authenticate the relics; the Bishop came, and upon his