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Venimdantiir Parisiis i vico aancti Jacob! ad
crucem ligneam prope Sacellum Divi Ivonis per
Tossanu Denis bibliopolam cmn descriptioiie
Italic ac copendio universitatis Parisiensis : et
taxis benefidomm ecdesiasticora Regni Frande^
the point; and^ with his oompaiiiinii^ the immiflting aint is
diiftedtoamofepxobaUeBCationhidiionoIegT; Batthislflnet
all, nor the most Whefever the indifidiua may be placed, he
is laid, on the authorities aboTe adduced, to have been decapi-
/a<«tflbrthe&ith, and qflerwanU to hawearriedhhheadin
huhantbiwomUu. Caid. Quignon would have soltsned fhe
piedsum of the distance hy calling it a knff one. Bat Bus Y.
woiiUnot bate UL atominsoooplte/ainiiade. FoorAlbaa
Botle^ however, is ashamed of the whole ; and, with papal ho-
nesty, pretennits it altogether. The/Ml is thus deseiibed in
the PfOMi of a Roman Misnl, Paris, IfiSM^
Sed cadaver moz enxit,
Trunois tnmcnm caput vezit,
0^0 fefente hoc diieadt
Angelomm coodo.
We have not done with the martyr jet— there is a dispute about
his Belies. Batisbon daims the true and the whole body, ex-
cept the little finger of the right hand ; and Pope Leo IX. deter^
mined the question between this city and Paris in favour of the
Ibimer. And there is still another claimant, Prague, which has
an arm. This, and the liquefaction of the blood of St. Janua-
rius, embodied even in the Roman Breviary, are perhaps the
most atrocious impostures in the whole compass of papal and
Italian jugglery. And yet the latter, which in the moderately
intelligent and pious could only move contempt and disgust,
could be witnessed and written of with gravity and respect by
the Bev. the president of St. Mary's college, Oscott. See Ro-
man Catholic Magazine, vol. i. pp. 345, &c. and the second vol.
These are subjects of awful reflexion ! If ChriBtianity were in-
separable from popery, the consequence is almost inevitable,
that the whole xuu^t be rejected in the massi And although
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