he forbade its being exhibited as the _real_ sudary of Jesus
Christ. The canons of Lire, therefore, put aside their sudary, but
it reappeared in other places, and after being shown about in
various churches and convents it remained at Chambery in 1432, where
nobody dared to impugn its reality. From that time its fame
increased, and Francis I., king of France, went a pilgrimage on
foot, the whole way from Lyons to Chambery, in order to worship this
linen cloth. In 1578 St Charles Borromeo having announced his
intention of going on foot to Chambery to adore the holy sudary, the
Duke of Savoy, wishing to spare this high-born saint the trouble of
so long a pilgrimage, commanded the relic to be brought to Turin,
where it has since remained, and where the miracles performed by it
and the solemn worship paid to it, may be considered as a proof that
its authenticity is no longer doubted.

There are about six holy sudaries preserved in other churches,
besides the pieces shown elsewhere.

136 Calvin, speaking of the silver pieces for which Judas betrayed our
Lord, does not say where they are shown. Two of them are preserved
in the Church of the Annunciation at Florence, one in the Church of
St John of the Lateran, and another in that of the Holy Cross at
Rome. There is one piece at the Church of the Visitandine Convent at
Aix in Provence besides many other places where they are
displayed.--_Collin de Plancy, Dictionaire des Reliques._

137 The whole skeleton of the animal is preserved at Vicenza, enclosed
in an artificial figure of an ass.

138 Eusebius relates, that Abgarus, king of Edessa, having heard of
Christ's teaching and miracles, sent an embassy to acknowledge our
Lord's divinity, and to invite him to his kingdom, in order to cure
Abgarus of a complaint of long standing; upon which Christ sent him
the likeness mentioned in the text. Now, it is impossible for one
moment to admit, that, if such an important fact had any truthful
foundation, it would have been left unrecorded by the apostles.

139 The Roman Catholic Church maintains that the Blessed Virgin was
carried to heaven by angels, and it commemorates this event by the
festival of the Assumption on the 15th August. This belief was
unknown to the primitive church; for, acco