rding to a Roman Catholic
writer of undoubted orthodoxy, the Empress Pulcheria, in the fifth
century, requested the Bishop of Jerusalem, Juvenal, to allow her to
have the body of the Virgin, in order to display it for the public
adoration of the faithful at Constantinople.--(Tillerant's "Memoires
Ecclesiastiques.")--There are many other proofs that, even at that
time, when many idolatrous practices had begun to corrupt the
church, the Virgin's body was generally believed to be in earth, and
not in heaven.

140 Vials filled with such milk were shown in several churches at Rome,
at Venice in the church of St Mark, at Aix in Provence, in the
church of the Celestins at Avignon, in that of St Anthony at Padua,
&c. &c., and many absurd stories are related about the miracles
performed with these relics.

141 There are about twenty gowns of the Blessed Virgin exhibited in
various places. Many of them are of costly textures, which, if true,
would prove that she had an expensive wardrobe.

142 The number of miraculous images of the Virgin in countries following
the tenets of the Roman Catholic and Greek Churches is _legion_, and
a separate volume would be required if we were to give even an
abridged account of them.

143 "The most celebrated relic of St Joseph is his '_han_,' _i.e._, the
sound or groan which issues from the chest of a man when he makes an
effort, and which St Joseph emitted when he was splitting a log of
wood. It was preserved in a bottle at a place called Concaiverny,
near Blois, in France."--_D'Aubigne's Confessions de Sancy_, chap.
ii. _apud_ Colin de Plancy.

144 It is said that as late as 1784, at Mount St Michael in Bretagne, a
Swiss was vending feathers from the archangel Michael's wings, and
that he found purchasers for his wares.

145 This multiplication of St John's head reminds one of an anecdote
related by Miss Pardoe in her "City of the Magyar." A museum of
curiosities was kept in the chateau of Prince Grassalkovich in
Hungary, and it was usually shown to strangers by the parish priest
of that place. This worthy man was once conducting a traveller over
the collection, and showed him amongst other curiosities two skulls,
of large and small size, saying of the first, "This is the skull of
the celebrate