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 O Lord, this thine arm, and the executor of thy justice, let all the saints arise and give him place." After these ceremonies, four Jesuits are deputed to talk with the parricide alone, these, during their discourse, are wont often to say, that there appears in him a divine sort of brightness, by the radiancy of which they are moved to kiss his hands and feet, and that he no longer seems to them to be a man, but a heavenly saint; they pretend also to envy the great glory and blessedness to which he is now advanced, sighing and saying, "Would to God I had been chosen in thy room, that being delivered from the punishmeat of Purgatory, I might have gone directly to paradise." But, if he whom they judge proper to penetrate the murder be backward and reluctant, then they either force him to make such a vow by nightly bugbears, and monstrous spectres, or animate and introduce him to the enterprize, by contriving apparitions of the Virgin Mary, or angels, or other saints, and sometimes of Ignatius and his followers.

CERTAIN peasant of Auvergne, a province in France, perceiving that his bees were likely to die, to prevent this misfortune, was advised, after he had received the communion, to keep the host, and to blow it into one of his hives; and, on a sudden, all the bees came forth out of their hives, and ranking themselves in good order