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29 Venimdantiir Parisiis i vico aancti Jacob! ad crucem ligneam prope Sacellum Divi Ivonis per Tossanu Denis bibliopolam cmn descriptioiie Italic ac copendio universitatis Parisiensis : et taxis benefidomm ecdesiasticora Regni Frande^ the point; and^ with his oompaiiiinii^ the immiflting aint is diiftedtoamofepxobaUeBCationhidiionoIegT; Batthislflnet all, nor the most Whefever the indifidiua may be placed, he is laid, on the authorities aboTe adduced, to have been decapi- /a<«tflbrthe&ith, and qflerwanU to hawearriedhhheadin huhantbiwomUu. Caid. Quignon would have soltsned fhe piedsum of the distance hy calling it a knff one. Bat Bus Y. woiiUnot bate UL atominsoooplte/ainiiade. FoorAlbaa Botle^ however, is ashamed of the whole ; and, with papal ho- nesty, pretennits it altogether. The/Ml is thus deseiibed in the PfOMi of a Roman Misnl, Paris, IfiSM^ Sed cadaver moz enxit, Trunois tnmcnm caput vezit, 0^0 fefente hoc diieadt Angelomm coodo. We have not done with the martyr jet— there is a dispute about his Belies. Batisbon daims the true and the whole body, ex- cept the little finger of the right hand ; and Pope Leo IX. deter^ mined the question between this city and Paris in favour of the Ibimer. And there is still another claimant, Prague, which has an arm. This, and the liquefaction of the blood of St. Janua- rius, embodied even in the Roman Breviary, are perhaps the most atrocious impostures in the whole compass of papal and Italian jugglery. And yet the latter, which in the moderately intelligent and pious could only move contempt and disgust, could be witnessed and written of with gravity and respect by the Bev. the president of St. Mary's college, Oscott. See Ro- man Catholic Magazine, vol. i. pp. 345, &c. and the second vol. These are subjects of awful reflexion ! If ChriBtianity were in- separable from popery, the consequence is almost inevitable, that the whole xuu^t be rejected in the massi And although d2