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1877.] in the open air upon which tableaux showing the principal events in the life of the holy man are given. Every hundredth year witnesses one of the grandest festivals of the Roman Catholic Church in San Vicente's honor. All the marvels of the ecclesiastical treasury are exhibited in the narrow Valencian streets. Twelve stout fellows carry the cross, which they are strictly enjoined not to set down.

If, overcome with fatigue, they disobey this injunction, they are heavily fined, and the cross belongs thenceforth to the church upon whose parish soil it falls. Gigantic figures of Saint Christopher bearing the child Jesus upon his shoulder, of Methuselah, and of numerous other saints fill the ranks of this pageant.

In Estremadura and in various