When the Reformation was spread in Lithuania, prince Radzviil was so affected by it, that he went in person to pay the pope all possible honours. His holiness, on this occasion, presented him with a precious box of relics. The prince having returned home, some monks intreated permission to try the effect of these relics on a demoniac, who had hitherto resisted every kind of exorcism. They were brought into the church with solemn pomp, and deposited on the altar, accompanied by an innumerable crowd. After the usual conjurations, which were unsuccessful, they applied the relics. The demoniac instantly recovered. The people called out, “A miracle!” and the prince, lifting his hands and eyes to heaven, felt, it is said, his faith confirmed. In this transport of joy, he observed that a young gentleman, who was keeper of this treasure of relics, smiled, and by his motions ridiculed the miracle. The prince indignantly took the young keeper of the relics to task; who, on the promise of pardon, gave the following secret intelligence concerning them. In travelling from Rome he had lost the box of relics, and, not daring to mention it, he obtained a similar one, which he had filled with small bones of dogs and cats, and other trifles similar to what were lost. He hoped he might be forgiven for smiling, when he found such a collection of rubbish was idolized with such pomp, and had even the virtue of expelling demons! It was by the assistance of this box that the prince discovered the gross impositions of the monks and demoniacs, and Radzviil afterwards became a zealous Lutheran.[K] To take another case, for which we are indebted to Scott’s “History of the Lives of Protestant Reformers in Scotland.” At the east end of the village of Musselburgh there was a chapel dedicated to the virgin Mary; its proper name being Loretta, though it was vulgarly called Alareit, or Lawreit. There was also a chapel of the same name in Perth, and many credulous people of both these places, as well as the people of Loretta, in Italy, believed that their chapel contained within it the identical small brick-built house in which Mary had dwelt at Nazareth, and that it had been conveyed miraculously from its original seat. At the time now referred to, it was announced in Edinburgh, and the neighbouring places, that a miracle would be performed on a certain day, and a great number of persons consequently assembled. A stage was erected on the outside of the chapel, and, at length, a young man, apparently blind, was led forward. Many of those who were present knew this person, and had, perhaps, often pitied his circumstances. After various prayers and ceremonies, his eyes, to the satisfaction of the people, appeared to be perfectly restored. Returning thanks to the priests and friars, he now left the stage, and received the congratulations of the people, some of whom gave him money.