The Making of a Miracle: The True Story of New Pompei (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Making of a Miracle: The True Story of New Pompei

He has wished to set before his countrymen at home a true and vivid picture of Romanism as it lives and moves and grows amid congenial surroundings in its native land of Italy, the chosen home of the pope-king, the cradle of the world-wide superstition that has become so gigantic and so formidable.

Until the great year I 860, when the _kingdom of Naples cast in its lot with united Italy, Romanism reigned without a rival and with out control in the fair Southern realm of the Two Sicilias here it expanded in unchecked freedom, and it would be difficult to point to another region where the peculiar mythology of the Romish religion has been more cordially accepted by the populace, and has more thoroughly dominated and coloured popular life; Spain itself cannot outrival South Italy for excess of superstitious devotion, nor can the Eternal City outdo fair Naples in hearty accept ance of the grossest materialistic travesties of Gospel truths.

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