Page:The Voyage Of Italy Or A Compleat Journey through Italy, The Second Part.pdf/170

 a fair Crystal Coffin made of several great squares of Crystal, through which (the woodden Case being opened by special leave from the Archbishop) we saw his body lying all along in his Episcopal robes: His face, hands, and feet, are onely seen, and his nose and lipps are shrunck and parched. The true Picture of this Saint hangs at the entrance below into this Chappel; and his History and wonderful Actions are hung up in painting round about the Church on high. Over the high Altar, in the very roof of the Church, is kept one of the Nails of the Cross of our Saviour, given anciently to the Milanesi by the Emperour Theodosius. There burn alwayes before it a number of little Lamps, set cross-wise, and drawn up thither with a pully, to shew the people where that holy Relick is. In fine, the Steeple of this Church is not to be forgotten. Its not quite finished yet, but its high enough to tyre any man, and to shew him from the top of it, the whole Town of Milan, the whole compass and