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Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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SCRIPTURE AN'D THE FATHERS. 373<br />

piece of St. Bartholomew's skin I<br />

4. A bone of<br />

St. Ninlim ;<br />

5. A piece of <strong>the</strong> girdle worn <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Virgin Mary. In a crystal case, was contained<br />

a bone of St. Magdalene.<br />

There were also four<br />

crystal phials, containing a part of <strong>the</strong> Virgin<br />

Mary's milk, a piece of <strong>the</strong> manger in which<br />

Christ was laid, a red liquor which formerly<br />

flowed from <strong>the</strong> tomb of St. Kcntigern, som€<br />

bones of St. Eugene <strong>and</strong> St. Blaise, <strong>and</strong> a part<br />

of <strong>the</strong> tomb of St. Catharine. There were six<br />

hides containing very precious relics ; such as,<br />

a piece of St. Martin's cloak, part of <strong>the</strong> bodies<br />

of St. Kentigern <strong>and</strong> St. Thomas a Becket, ^c.<br />

Two linen bags were filled v/ith saints' bones<br />

<strong>and</strong> a vast assemblage of small relics were lodged<br />

in a wooden chest *.<br />

When <strong>the</strong> Reformation<br />

rendered images <strong>and</strong><br />

relics useless in Scotl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>the</strong> Archbishop of<br />

Glasgow retired to France, <strong>and</strong> carried along<br />

wiih him this precious treasure. With such a<br />

host of friendly intercessors, he could not fall<br />

to enjoy a cordial reception from <strong>the</strong> Chuich.<br />

Uhe most mortified ecclesiastic in France c

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