nd he adds that those who
ventured to touch them were visibly punished. The Emperor Justinian,
desiring some relics of these two apostles, some filings from their
prison chains, and sheets that had been consecrated by having been
laid over their bodies, were sent to him; but some time afterwards
these relics were touched and handled without persons suffering any
visible punishment for so doing. Their heads were transferred to the
church of St John of Lateran, and their bodies were divided and
placed in the churches of St Peter and St Paul in the Ostian Road.
We have seen in the text that different parts of their bodies are
shown in many places, and the celebrated D'Aubigne relates that
France had possessed formerly the entire bodies of Peter and Paul
before the Huguenots burnt and destroyed a great number of the
relics in that country.

150 This relic is considered a very efficient remedy for cutaneous
disorders.

151 Calvin was evidently in haste to get over his task, as he intimated
to us at the commencement of this chapter. He has made very great
omissions. In the first place, he appears to have forgotten the body
of St James the Major at Compostella in Spain, one of the most
celebrated places of pilgrimage of the Western Church. According to
the legend, this apostle went to Spain to preach Christianity and
then returned to Jerusalem, where he was beheaded by Herod.--(Acts
xii.) His body was afterwards removed by his disciples to Spain.
This is, therefore, his second body. He has a third at Verona, and a
fourth at Toulouse, besides several heads elsewhere. The other
apostles have also more bodies than are mentioned in the text, but
the limits of this work forbid enumeration.

152 St Matthew is not so poor in relics as Calvin supposed, for we could
quote several whole bodies, as well as members, with which he was
not acquainted.

153 An oratory is a small chapel or cabinet, adorned with images of
saints, &c., and used by the Roman Catholics for private devotions.
The absurdity of ascribing to John the Evangelist the possession of
such an oratory is too palpable a falsehood to require any comment.

154 According to the well-known Jesuit writer Ribadeneira, the Jews
seized Lazarus, Mary Magdalene, Martha, Marcella, Maximin,