brought by the Fathers, the Jesuits, from Rochelle: several small phials of it from Mantua; larger vessels of it from St. Eustachius's, in this city of Rome; mixed with water as it came from his side, from St John Lateran in this city.

9. His cradle and manger, very much decayed.- Ditto, a pailful of the water of Jordan, where he was baptised, fresh and clear to this day (emptum Cassim.)

10. The water-pots of the marriage of Cana in Galilee.-N. B. These are not the pots shown at Pisa, Cluniaci, and Andegavi, but the true original ones.

11. Crumbs of the bread that fed

the five thousand: Romæ ad Mariæ Novœ.

12. A bough of the tree carried by Christ entering Jerusalem in triumph, the leaves almost fresh still from Spain, ad Salvatoris.

13. The table on which Christ ate the last supper, a little decayed: at Rome, St. John Lateran.

14. Some of the bread which he then broke: from Spain, ad Salva

toris.

15. The cup he then drank out of and gave to his disciples: ad Maria Insulana, near Lyons.

16. The sacrament of his body and blood, from Brussels.

17. The towel with which he wiped his disciples' feet, very rotten: Rome.

18. Part of the money paid Judas. Malchus's lanthorn, some of the panes cracked, and the door quite decayed: from St. Denis.

The following most holy and precious relics were brought to Rome, by the blessed Father Francis Visconti, by order of the Pope, from Aquisgranum, or Aken:

19. Part of the wood of the cross, a little decayed; and a nail of the

same.

20. Some of the manna in the wil derness; and of the blossoms of Aaron's rod.

21. Part of the sudarium, of the reed, and spunge of our Saviour.

22. A girdle of our Saviour's, and another of the Virgin's, little worn.

23. The cord with which Christ was bound at his passion, very fresh.

24. Some of the hair of St. John Baptist. A ring of the chain of St. Peter.

25. Some of the blood of St. Stephen; and the oil of St. Catherine. 26. The arm of St. Simeon, ill kept. The image of the blessed Virgin, drawn by St. Luke; the features all visible.

27. The relics of St. Spes, or St. Hope. Some of the hair of the blessed Virgin.

28. One of her combs, brought originally from Besancon in Burgundy; and twelve combs of the twelve apostles, all very little used: originaly from Lyons.

29. The indusium, or shift, of the blessed Virgin, when our Saviour was born.

30. The swathes in which our Saviour was wrapped the night of his nativity.

31. The holy linen cloth upon which St. John Baptist was beheaded; wants new hemming and darning.

32. The cloth with which our Saviour was covered when he hung on

the cross.

33. The brains of St. Peter, from Geneva-Note. These are the individual brains which that arch-heretic Calvin declared were a mere pumice stone, sinning against God, the holy apostle, and his own soul.

The following most venerable relics were bought at, and brought from, Prague, to this city, by the reverend Father Priuli, Jesuit, commissioned and authorized by the pope:

84. The head and arm of the blessed Longinus. Some relics of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

35. The arm and some part of the body of Lazarus; ill kept, and smells. 38. Two pieces of two girdles of the blessed Virgin.

37. A part of the body of St. Mark; and a part of his Gospel, of his own hand-writing, almost legible.

33. A piece of St. John the Evangelist's coat. A piece of the staff of St. Peter; and another piece of the staff of St. Paul.

39. A part of St. Peter's chain.
40. A finger of St. Ann.

41. A part of the blessed Virgin's veil, as good as new.

42. The head of St. Luke. N.B.-It is true there is also another in this Catalogue; but both are so amply verified,-nay, avouched by daily miracles,-that his holiness leaves it undecided. Betwixt the buyer and seller be it.

43. Some of the relics of St. Catherine of Alexandria.

44. The head and finger of St. Stephen: it is supposed to be his middle finger, but that is doubtful. Here endeth the collection of relics from Prague.

45. The staff delivered by our Lord to St. Patrick, and with which he drove all the venomous creatures out of Ireland.

46. Eight Veronicas, or holy handkerchiefs, of our Lord's? one from Turin; another from St. John de Lateran; and a third from St. Peter's, in this city; another from Cadion, in Perigort; a fifth from Besancon; another from Compeigne; a seventh from Milan; and another from Aix-la-Chapelle.

N. B. It is as impossible as unjust to decide which has the best title to be the real one, since they have all been received from age to age by the faithful; but, as that of Cadoin hath fourteen' bulls in its favour, and the rest but one or two, (though that of Turin produceth four in its behalf,) we leave it undecided. 'This we do the rather, as the pray. ers and devotions of the pious have probably sanctified them all equally; and, moreover, it is possible that they have been miraculously multiplied by the goodness of God, for the support and aid of the faithful, as the loaves and the fishes were to the hungry Jews.

47. The most holy fore finger of John the Baptist, with which he pointed to Christ: brought from Jerusalem to Malta, by the brothers of St. John's Hospital, and since to this city.

48. The holy Sindon, or linen in which Christ's body was buried: from Turin.

49. The dish in which Christ ate the paschal lamb, made all of one emerald: from Genoa.

50. A nail of our Saviour's cross: fixed formerly on the church-roof of Milan, and since brought hither.

51. Another; being one of those which the Empress Helena ordered to be wrought up into the cheek of a bridle for the Emperor Constantine; and a third, which was thrown into the Adriatic sea in a vast storm, to appease it, as it actually did: taken up since in a fisherman's net, and brought to this city;

52. The stone upon which Abramam offered to sacrifice his son; and another stone, on which our Lord was placed when he was presented in the temple.

53. The top of the lance with which Christ's side was pierced.

54. The smoch of St. Prisca, in which she was martyred 1700 years ago: something decayed.

55. A thorn of that crown of thorns which was put on our Saviour's head.

56. The head of the woman of Samaria, who was converted by our Saviour: decayed, but plainly a head still.

57. The arm of St. Ann, mother of the blessed Virgin; and the chain of St. Paul.

58. Scala Sancta; or the twenty eight steps of white marble on which Christ was led up in his passion to Pilate's house, and on which visibly appear the marks of his blood: sent by Helena, from Jerusalem, to the Emperor Constantine.

59. A picture of our Lord, said to be begun by St. Luke, but finished by an angel: or, as others say, St. Luke prepared to draw it, but falling to his prayers to God that he might draw his Son aright, when he arose, he found the picture finished.

60. The holy crib of our Saviour: very old and tender.

Here follows some most venerable relics, brought hither from Venice by the aforesaid Father Francis Visconti.

61. A thorn of the crown of thorn s a finger of St. Mary Magdalen.

62. A piece of St. John Baptist's skull; a tooth of St. Mark, a little rotten; also one of his fingers, and his ring with a stone in it.

same city, which bowed its head at the sight of a cannon-bullet, which was shot at him in 1439,(when Don Pedro of Arragon besieged that city) and only struck off the

crown.-

N. B. To cover his head, being very bald, there is a peruke of the hair of the Virgin fitted to it.

86. An image of Christ, made by himself, and sent to King Abgarus from St. Silvester: in the Field of Mars in this city.

87. Another, made by angels: from the chapel of the Sancta Sanctorum, in this city; and a crucifix, which was begun to be painted by Nicodemus, but finished by angels: from the cathedral of St. Martin, at Lucca.

N. B. All these Crucifixes have wrought great miracles within these fifty or sixty years.

(To be continued)

ANOTHER BULL OF POPE PIUS VII. AGAINST BIBLE SOCIETIES.

"Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee," was the language of our blessed Saviour to the wicked servant. Luke XIX 22. So in our judging of the church of Rome, we take not the opinions of the members or even of Bishops among the Roman Catholics as the, ground of our judgment; but the supreme Head of the church who claims to be Judge in all controversies. Hear the words that came out of his mouth, in the bull which follows.

I. He complains that he is worn down with poignant and bitter grief, at hearing of the dispersion of the Bible in the native tongue of the people.

II. It appears that this Archbishop has been so unmindful of his duty as to aid in its circulation, at this he is surprised,reminding him of the rule, that he had violated, "That the Holy Bible in the Vulgar tongue permit ted every where, more injury than benefit would arise."

II. No edition of the Bible is allowed by the Decree of the Council of Trent but the Vulgate Edition, (in Latin,) rejecting all others except with notes.

IV. Heresy is the result of reading the Bible, in the Language which we are able to understand!!

V. He laments that even their learned men, have failed in interpreting the Scripture. Alas! When the infallible Bishops and Popes have failed, we had better try our. selves.

VI. Compare this Sophistical ar gument of Antichrist, with the word of God: Psalm cxix. 180. “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple." and the command of Jesus Christ. John v. 39. "Search the scriptures, &c." Ps. xix. 7. 2 Tim. 111. 15—17.

VII. Here he refers to the Bulls of other Popes on the Subject, in which they teach that if the Scriptures were unreservedly laid open to all, they would be despised and disregardedSee Ps. CXIX. 87-104. where studying the word of God begets love to it. "O how I love thy law."

The next point which the Bp. ought to have understood, was the Bull Unigentus, and this we shall publish in part in our next No. In it the giving of the Bible to all is prohibited and the author of an edition of the New Testaments though a catholic, condemned for teaching that it was proper to read it.

VII. TRADITION, which the council of Trent, receives and venerates with equally the same pious affection

and reverence, that she has for the Holy Scriptures, he had omitted in his rescript of the Decree.

In the remaining sections he accuses him of garbling the Letter of Pius vi; blames him for his conduct, as that which would be culpable in a private member, much more in him; as being contrary to his oath; and urges him to lie to the people, telling them that he did not mean what he had said; but only in accordance with the rules of the Church, Let it speak for itself.

POPE PIUS VII.

To our Venerable Brother Stanislaus, Archbishop of Mohileff. VENERABLE BROTHER,

Health and Apostolic Benediction. 1. We are worn down with poignant and bitter grief at hearing of the pernicious design, not very long ago entered upon, by which the most holy books of the Bible are every where dispersed in the several vernacular tongues, and published, contrary to the most wholesome Rules of the Church, with new translations, and these craftily perverted into bad meanings For we have perceived, from one of those versions which has been brought to us, that it tends to destroy the sanctity of purer doctrine; so that the faithful may easily drink deadly poison, from those fountains whence they ought to draw the waters of salutary wisdom.

namely, That if the Holy Bible in the vulgar tongue were permitted every where, without discrimination, more injury than benefit would thence arise.

3. Further, the Roman Church receiving only the Vulgate Edition, Council of Trent, rejects the version by the well-known Decree of the in other languages, and allows only those which are published with notes properly selected from the writings of the Fathers and Catholic Doctors; lest so great a treasure should be subject to the corruptions of novelties, and in order that the Church, scattered over the whole world, might be of one lip and of the same speech. Truly, when we perceive in a vernacular tongue very frequent changes, variations, and alterations, proceeding from the immoderate licentiousness of biblical versions, that immutability would be destroyed; nay, the divine testimonies, and ever. the faith itself would be shaken, especially since, from the signification of one syllable the truth of a dogma may some times be ascertained.

4. Wherefore, by this means, Heretics have been accustomed to bring forward their corrupt and most destructive machinations; in order that they might insidiously obtrude each their own errors, dressed up in the more holy garb of the Divine word, by publishing the Bible in the vulgar tongues, (though concerning the wonderful variety and discrepancy of these they mutually accuse and cavil at each other.) For Heresies arise only,' saith St. AUGUSTINE, when the excellent Scriptures are not well understood; and what in them is ill understood, is nevertheless rashly and boldly asserted.'

2. But we were still more deeply grieved, when we read certain letters signed with the name of You, our Brother; wherein You authorized and exhorted the people com5. But, if We lament that men, mitted to your care, to procure for the most renowned for piety and wisthemselves modern versions of the dom, have often failed in interpreting Bible, or willingly to accept them Scripture; what may not be feared, when offered, and carefully and at- if the Scriptures, translated into tentively to peruse them! Nothing every vulgar tongue, are given to be certainly could more aggravate our freely read by the ignorant common grief than to behold You, who were people, who usually judge not from placed to point out the ways of right- any preference, but from a sort of eousness, become a stone of stum- temerity? Is it so,' exclaims ST. bling. For You ought carefully to AUGUSTINE properly, 'that you, unhave kept in view, what our Prede- tinctured by any poetical skill, do cessors have always prescribed; not venture to open TERENCE with