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 that of S. Ambrose, where that glorious Father of the Church refused stoutly to Theodosius the Emperour, entrance unto that Church, because of his passionate commanding the Massacre at Thessalonia, where seven thousand men were murdered for the fault of a few. Under the high Altar of this Church lyeth the Body of S. Ambrose; as also the bodies of S. Gervasius and Protasius, two primitive Saints, whose bodies were found whiles S. Austin lived at Milan, and who also relates a famous and known Miracle to have been wrought by God, at the Translation of those holy Martyrs bodies into this Church. In this Church also is seen upon a high Pillar of a round form, a Brazen Serpent, like that erected by Moses in the Desert, and commanded by God himself to be made. I imagin it was set up here for the same end, for which it was commanded by God to be set up mystically in the Desert, that is, to put men in mind of our Saviours exaltation upon the Cross for mankind, the frequent