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the execution took place. and shows the
three miraculous water sources which bub-
bled forth where the martyrs head bound
ed three times from the earth.
The Church Of San Pietro, in Vincoli,
was built expressly to preserve the suppos-
ed chains with which the Apostle was
bound at Jerusalem.
Santa Prassede owns, but on no account
shows, the portrait of our Savior, present
ed by st. Peter to certain Pudius, the
father Of St. Prassede, and he first convert
made by st. Paul at Rome.
Santa Pudeuziana, has the very altar at
which St. Peter officiated, and well in
which Pudeuzians collected the blood of
9, 900 martyrs.
In the famous dungeons known as the
Mamertine prisons, built by Ancus Mar
thus and Servius Tullius, where the ac-
complies of Cataliue were strangled, where
Jugurtha died of hunger, and where Le-
Janus and Perseus of Macedonia were long
imprisoned, was also confined st. Peter,
by order of Nero. The guardian shows
you the pillar to which he was chained
and never failing spring which sprang
forth when the saint had need of water to
immerse the forty penitcnt jailors. The
visitor tastes this water, and can hardly
fail to pronounce It sweet and refreshing,
in scene so siclening as that presented
by this profoundly subterranean cell. In
stone of the stairway is the impress Of a
human profile, distinctly traceablc. This
was made by St. Peters side face, when
brutal turnkey jammed the martyr violent
ly against the wall. St. Peter must have
been much annoyed at finding that he left
such indelible marks of his person behind
him. And what sharp and charlatans are
the holy men that invent, propagate and
perpctuate such shabby and degrading fic-
tions.
San Pietro in Montoro is built upon the
precise spot where the Apostle was cruci-
fled, in an inverted attitude In hole
extending rather deeply into the ground
hangs lantern, and further down is buried
the identical cross. 1t is never shown,
as, according to the sacristan, and is sad
ly in want of repairs. l lave no doubt
the origional Mess of Pottage is somewhere
to be seen in Rome, kept in sacred cub
by, and covered over by Cathedral.
4 place is shown which was once
inhabited by St. Dominic, the founder of
the Inquisition, who received letters from
Heaven, written by the Holy Trinity
However, this is of lower order of bias
phemy than that indulged in at alittlc old
house at Siena, which produces the love
correspondence of the Savior On St. Cath
| crime. ! hardly expect to be believed when
i say that letters are actually shown which
profess to have been written to her by oul
5 Lord. Those written to her husband Je.
= sus Christ, and to her mother-in-law, the
A Virgin Mary, may be seen by anybody
: The exact spot is also pointed wher' tht
Saviour and st. Catherine stood when they
;. were married, and where the wedding rims
j was put upon her finger. OF this the bes
S modern writer in italy, Charlotte Eaton
l says: That such a let en- she uld ever hav
: been cledi: ed in :hc darkest ages of extrav
e agan Ia laticism, ! coul scarcely have be
: leved, but that it should be gravely repeat
# ed as authentic in the Nineteenth Century
i nothing, l think, but the evidence of my
V senses could have convinced me-.
: Now, in regard to all these assumption
C impossibiities, it must not be suppose e.
II they are the inventions and creations 0
n cicerones, handbooks and fanatical sacris
= tans. The Pope is guarantee for them al
II and the Church is responsible for them, on
n and severally. Where no evidence exist
If evidence is coined or in some way triumph
s ed up or better than all, Papal bull de
If clares no evidence to be necessary. Th
n Vatican, armed with infalibility, pronon
/, ces without appeal upon the authenticit
h Of any relic which may be- judged valuable
e either for the collection of fees, the pro
h motion of church influence. Or for the ex
d tension of idol worship. For instance
the Sacred Baby declared to be the wor
J. of St. Luke. and put forward as mil
l. aculous healer of diseases, for which sci
,r vices he makes the most extortionste cha,
N ges, isperiec,ly we'll known by the Churc
,r to be gross imposition. This as we'll q
all the paintings nd other works attribr
,r ted to the Evangelist, has been quite cor
y clusively proved to be due to one Messt
, Luca, Greek artist of much later per
al cd. Ofcourse it was as easy for the Catl
is olic Church to transmute Mr.. Luca int
a St. Luke, for its own purpose, as it was fe
Ia Barnum to manufacture Joyce Heth out {
,r an octogenar;an negress. The different
is that Barnnm has owned up, while tt
lie Church is still deriving profit from its nj
s. merous and we'll stocked museums. III
Pope will one day deliver lectures on tt
cs Philosophy Of Humbug, too. His dlsclo
u ures will be much more degrading to Il
a world, however, than since those Barnam
SIS 'vero to America; for the former is an il
re stitution, while the latter is but man.
IN A curions assumption of the Romanis
er one forced upon the view througho
as Italy-is that Christ bore his cross, una
,g sisted. himself, and that he fell under
o. fourteen times. Not only is there nothir
lis in the Bible to support this version. b
er three of the Evangelists, Matthew, MAJ
lis and John, if l remember right, distinct
tn state that Simon Syrenean was made
its bear the cross. I cannot say how maj
. steepling, winding lanes around and
ch Rome. are now made to represent the p
it Crucis-the Way of the Cross--with pi
ch lures of the fourteen stages OF stations
" The one most singularly located is that