In the list of twenty nine burnings, or autos da fe, in nineteen months in Germany, 162 persons were murdered, of whom 28 were Protestants, 100 wealthy citizens and 34 little children, the youngest an infant. Wright says that 27 little girls, from seven to ten years of age, were burnt as witches. Lorente, the historian of the Inquisition, computes that Torquamada in eighteen years burned at the stake 10,220 persons, and otherwise punished 97,321. In Andalusia alone, in a single year, the Inquisition sent to the stake 2000 Jews.—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-136. “We learn that much money was realized by selling to the rich dispensations to secure them from the Inquisition.”—Conflict Between Religion and Science, 146. Stevens says: “A monk of St. Anthony, having been at Jerusalem, brought home with him a bit of the finger of the Holy Ghost, the snoot of a seraphim, one of the nails of a cherub, one of the ribs of the Word Made Flesh, some rays of the Star of the East, and a vial of St. Michael’s sweat. Henry III, of England, received from the Grand Master of the Templars a vial containing some of the blood that Christ shed upon the cross, attested by the seal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem.” The hand of one of the innocents massacred by Herod, although Herod died four years B. C., was, in 1837, still preserved in the Convent at Bethlehem. There also is the pit in which the bodies of the infants were thrown, and also the manger which came down from the constellation of the Crab. Some depraved Christian copped the stone on which the cock crowed when Peter denied his Master, and, in 1837, it was said to be in a church in Rome. In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, among other wonders, is a monument erected over the grave of Adam, who never existed, and there is a polished marble bathtub or sarcophagus, which they claimed was the sepulchre hewn out of the rock. See Travels in Holy Land, 2-163. The fight of the fools and fakirs over the location of the grave of a mythical sun-god is certainly ludicrous, but more amusing was the magic trick of the early Christians who stole the grave of Adam either from Hebron or Mecca and also swiped the grave of Christ from the Damascus Road, north of Jerusalem, and exhibited both, with other shell and three-card-monte games, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the centre of Jerusalem, for the purpose of annexing the coin of the dupes, farmers and come-ons from all over the world.