FOOTNOTES:

[372] This account is for the most part taken from Bishops Beveridge and
Pearson.

[373] The Egyptian Meletius, from which this schism has its name, must
not be confounded with Meletius of Antioch.

[374] The [Greek: ekklesiastikon phronema].

[375] Vid. the parallel case of the Ignatian Epistles in the Author's
Essays, vol. i, p. 266.

NOTE ON P. 366.

Lately the relics of St. Ambrose have been discovered in his Church at
Milan, as were the relics of St. Gervasius and St. Protasius several
years since. On this subject I received a month since a letter from a
friend, who passed through Milan, and saw the sacred remains. I will
quote a portion of his letter to me:--

"_Sept. 17, 1872._

"I am amazed at the favour which was shown me yesterday at the
Church of St. Ambrogio. I was accidentally allowed to be present at
a private exposition of the relics of St. Ambrose and the Saints
Gervasius and Protasius. I have seen complete every bone in St.
Ambrose's body. There were present a great many of the clergy,
three _medici_, and Father Secchi, who was there on account of his
great knowledge of the Catacombs, to testify to the age, etc., of
the remains. It was not quite in chance, for I wanted to go to
Milan, solely to venerate St. Ambrose once more, and to thank him
for all the blessings I have had as a Catholic and a Priest, since
the day that I said Mass over his body. The churches were shut when
I arrived; so I got up early next morning and went off to the
Ambrosian. I knelt down before the high altar, and thought of all
that had happened since you and I were there, twenty-six years ago.
As I was kneeling, a cleric came out; so I asked him to let me into
the _scurolo_, which was boarded up all round for repairs. He took
me there, but he said: 'St. Ambrose is not here; he is above; do
you wish to see him?' He took me round through the corretti into a
large room, where, on a large table, surrounded by ecclesiastics
and medical men, were three skeletons. The two were of immense
size, and very much alike, and bore the marks of a violent death;
their age was determined to be about twenty-six years. When I
entered the room, Father Secchi was examining the marks of
martyrdom on them. Their throats had been cut with great violence,
and the neck vertebrae were injured on th