Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

346 POPERY CO^TDEMNED BY
variably cured. When Ressendlus, who designed
to publish his life along with these of the
other saints,
visited the spot with a view to pick
up information, he asked the priests if they possessed
any records or inscriptions respecting St.
Viarius.
Upon this he was directed to the table
over his sepulchre, which was inscribed with a
Latin epitaph of considerable length. But Ressendius,
who happened to be better acquainted
with Latin inscriptions than the priest,
soon discovered,
that the celebrated tomb of St. Viarius
contained only the heathenish carcases of two
menders of Roman highways. Information was
immediately sent to Cardinal Alphonsus, at that
time bishop of Evora, who ordered the place to
be shut up, to the great discontent of all the
simple faithful who were pained about the
loins *.
Such legendary lore drew from a learned man
of the Romish Church the following complaint
" There is also another error not unfrequent,
" that the common people, neglecting in a man-
^'
ner the ancient and known saints, worship
*'
more ardently and diligently the new and un-
" known, of whose holiness we have but little
*'
assurance, and of v\^hom we know some only
*'
by revelations ; so that it is justly doubted of
" several, that they never' existed at all f."
Were
* Ilessend. Ep. ad Barthol. Kcbedium. f Cassand.
Contu'.r. p. 071.