The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of EuropePrime, Samuel Irenæus
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The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of Europe
Prime, Samuel Irenæus
Europe -- Description and travel
Constantia, teeth of the apostles St.
Peter and St. Paul, of St. Cordula, teeth of St. Sixtus, St. Cassius,
St. Juliana, St. Matthias, St. Evermarus, and of the holy queen
Binosa.
10. A pyramid, with relics of St. Barbara, St. Peter, St. Juliana, St.
Apollonia, and St. Apollinarus; in the base, a relic of the holy
martyr Laurence.
11. A pyramid, with a tooth of the holy apostle St. Matthias, bones of
St. Vitalis, of John the Baptist, and the apostles St. James and St.
Bartholomew, and of St. Marcellus and St. Laurence.
12. Little fragments of the swathing-clothes of our Lord.
13. A bone of the Holy Virgin and martyress Luzia.
14. The penitential coat of St. Margaret, royal princess of Hungaria.
15. In a small vial some blood of St. John the Baptist.
16. A portrait of the holy bishop Nicholas in Greek mosaic.
17. A grave wherein lie the bones and relics of St. Gregorius, son to
the Greek Emperor Nicephorus, who was the first abbot of this church,
that once had been a free imperial chapter.
18. A fragment of linen tinged with blood of the priest St. Francis,
of Jerome, S. J.
19. A particle of the bones of St. John the Baptist.
20. A little box, containing a particle of the scull of St. John the
Baptist, particles of the bones of St. Raynerus, of St. Lewis, king of
France, and of the Holy Virgin, and martyress Catherine.
21. A fragment of the cloak of St. Francis, of Assisi.
22. A particle of the bones of the innocent children.
Several hundred years ago it was the custom to expose these relics every
year in the month of July; but it was found that in some stormy war
times the precious things were in danger of being carried off, and it
was ordered that once in seven years they should be exhibited to the
believers. It was the year and the day of the septennial demonstration
when the Sultan of Turkey and I arrived at Aix-la-Chapelle. The
unbelieving Mohammedan did not stay and see the show, but I did.
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