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information the reader is referred to those works.

[22] "Cause Morale de la Circoncision des Israelites, Institution
Preventive de l'Onanisme des Enfants." Par le Docteur Vanier,
du Havre. Paris, 1847.

[23] "Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology." By J. W. Powell.
Washington, 1881, 1882.

[24] "Among Cannibals, or Four Years' Travels in Australia." By Carl
Lumholtz. Page 46. Charles Scribner & Son, 1889.

[25] These interesting historical facts in relation to the holy
prepuce were published in the _Journal l'Excommunier_ in
January of 1870, when the writer was in France. They were
contributed by A. S. Morin, of Miron, a learned
historiographer and antiquary. Europe has not recovered from
its love of the supernatural that it had so strongly in the
middle ages. The blood of St. Gennaro still liquefies once a
year, and many churches still claim to possess the identical
winding sheet that served our Lord prior to his resurrection,
as well as more than one church has the holy cloth that St.
Veronica used on the way to Calvary, which has an impression
of the face of the Saviour.

[26] This church has a remarkable history connected with its
foundation. The tradition relates that in the dark ages some
sacrilegious soldier had robbed a church in the neighborhood
of its holy vessels of gold and silver. In the vessel in the
Tabernacle there happened to be a consecrated wafer. The
soldier journeyed on to Turin to dispose of his plunder, when,
on arriving at the spot on which the church now stands, the
wafer is said to have ascended miraculously to some distance
above the soldier's head, while at the same time the mule he
rode, being imbued with more religious piety than his master,
reverently knelt down on his front legs. The holy wafer was
now encircled by a halo of shining light; this, with the
kneeling donkey and the soldier raining blows on the pious
animal, while he himself was unconscious of the presence of
the host above him, attracted the attention of the populace,
who apprehended the soldier, on whom the stolen vessels were
found. The bishop in his pontificial robes, in sole