d rebel Ragotzi;" and of the second, "That is the skull
of the same Ragotzi when he was a boy!"

146 Calvin has not rendered full justice to the relics of John the
Baptist exhibited in various places. He only mentions the different
parts of his head and the fingers; and the quantity altogether shown
implies no doubt that the head was one of no ordinary dimensions. He
evidently was not aware that there are about a dozen whole heads of
St John the Baptist, which are or were exhibited in different towns.
The most remarkable of them was undoubtedly that one which the
notorious Pope John XXIII., who was deposed for his vices by the
Council of Constance, had sold to the Venetians for the sum of fifty
thousand ducats; but as the people of Rome would not allow such a
precious relic to quit their city, the bargain was rescinded. The
head was afterwards destroyed at the capture and pillage of Rome by
the troops of Charles V. in 1527. There are, besides, many other
parts of St John's body preserved as relics. A part of his shoulder
was pretended to have been sent by the Emperor Heraclius to King
Dagobert I.; and an entire shoulder was given to Philip Augustus by
the Emperor of Greece. Another shoulder was at Longpont, in the
diocese of Soissons; and there was one at Lieissies in the Hainault.
A leg of the saint was shown at St Jean d'Abbeville, another at
Venice, and a third at Toledo; whilst the Abbey of Joienval, in the
diocese of Chartres, boasted of possessing twenty-two of his bones.
Several of his arms and hands were shown elsewhere, besides fingers
and other parts of his body; but their enumeration would be too
tedious here.

147 Calvin here alludes to the haircloth worn by the monks of some
orders, and other Roman Catholic devotees, instead of the ordinary
shirt.

148 There is a French edition of the New Testament, published, I think,
at Louvaine, in which the 13th chapter of Acts, 2d verse, is thus
translated: "_Etquand ils disotent la messe_,"--"And when they were
saying mass."

149 The relics of Peter and Paul became at an early period the objects
of veneration to the Christians of Rome. Gregory the Great relates
that such terrible miracles took place at the sepulchres that people
approached them in fear and trembling, a