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torture and his throat cut. There was nothing with the corpse except a cock and a dog. The pious lady, knowing by revelation and by the incorruptibility and sweet savour of the body, that it was the precious corpse of S. Torpes the Martyr, had it buried in a fitting sepulchre on the place where it had stranded, and then a church was erected and altars to his honour."-M. LUSITANA, 2. 5. 6.

"Now the aforesaid Saint Torpes was a Roman Courtier, the friend and favourite of Nero, and he being a courtier must be the chief person meant by St. Paul when he says, All the Saints salute you, but chiefly they who are of Cæsar's household;2 and it must have been owing to his interest with the Emperor that the Christians were not persecuted in the beginning of his reign and that St. Paul was enabled to preach so long in Rome, and introduced to Seneca, with

whom he became so intimate. However the Christianity of Torpes was detected when he was with Nero at Pisa, and he was delivered up to Sattelicius, the Pisan Governor, who, though a Pagan, proceeded to convert him in a right Catholic manner. First he put him in irons and cast him into a dungeon; then he advised him in a friendly manner to regard his own interest, and then tormented him, till the house fell in and killed him and all his Gentiles, leaving the Saint unhurt. Silvinus, his son, succeeded

WHO made this noble lie, or when was it in his stead; turned a leopard loose at him, made?

"In the days of Nero there lived at Sines on the coast of Alemtejo, a Christian lady named Celerina. She had revelations that some great treasure was shortly to come to her by sea, and therefore often went to the beach to look for it, and at last she saw a boat come driving on without sail or oar, or living soul to guide it, but on it came and safely entered the port and came to shore. Celerina went on board and found the dead body of a man mangled by various

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who fawned at his feet, and then a lion, who, as he ran rampant, fell down dead. After more whippings he was carried to the Temple of Diana before the Emperor. This temple was a most rare device; it was all of metal, supported upon ninety columns, whose sun, moon, and stars were made, and all by mechanism performed their revolutions, and showers at times were let fall from the roof, and thunder produced, and by underground engines the whole edifice would have an earthquake of its own. Here

2 Philippians iv. 22.

MORALES — TORQUEMADA — GARIBAY.

Torpes was led, and when Nero bade him offer incense, and live and be again his favourite, he lifted up his eyes, and called on Christ, and a real earthquake shook down the whole fabric, the costliest of all Nero's works. But nobody was hurt. Silvinus, for miracles never affected Pagans, then dragged him to the banks of the Arno, cut his throat, and put his body with the cock and the dog into the boat.

A.D. 1521. D. Theotonio de Braganza, Archbishop of Evora, having accounts of the site of the ruined church, searched for the body, and com grandes averiguaçoēs e experiencias, the precious reliques were found and were, by special commission from Sextus V. approved and acknowledged for the very reliques of this very Saint!

This date is evidently false, for it is before D. Theotonio was born.

The names indicate an ignorant inventor in an ignorant age. What inference from the planetarian temple?

But let what can be made of the tale historically, I will make a Poem of it thus to end :

Now this is the tale of St. Torpes

And you will believe it, I hope,
The Story was told by the Cock of the Saint,
And confirmed by the Bull of the Pope.

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them to death; but as soon as the Christians had crost the bridge, the arch fell in under their pursuers. Great part of the Accitanians in consequence were converted, and Torquatus remained among them as their bishop. An olive tree planted by his hand was for many ages shewn before his church, and was believed to produce fruit miraculously on the day of his feast. The other six settled in different parts of Spain, and these were the Saints who first introduced Mass into the country.-MORALES,

9. 13.

Enoch, Elijah, and St. John.

ENOCH, Elijah, and St. John, are all living and to confront Antichrist as witnesses of the three periods of nature, of the Law, and of the Gospel. Among many reasons for affirming this of St. John, one is that Christ said he and Santiago were to drink of his cup, and it is certain that he has not been martyred yet. Ibid. 2. 5. Tit. 2.

THEY are in Paradise; and the Cardinal HUGO says that Elijah was carried to a secret part of the earth, where he remains in great tranquillity, y sosiego, of body and of spirit. This secret part of the earth may certainly mean the Garden of Eden. St. Amaro got to Paradise. See for his life.TORQUEMADA, Mon. Indian. vol. 2, p. 530.

The Seven Bishops.

TORQUATUS, Indalecius, Euphrasius, Cecilius, Secundus, Thesiphon, and Hesicius, were sent by Peter and Paul to Spain. They arrived on the coast of Granada, and landed near Guadix, then Acci. Here they rested in a pleasant field, and sent their young men to the city for food. There was a festival that day in the city to the Idols. The worshippers beholding the strange dress of these foreigners, concluded that they professed a different religion, and that their appearance was an insult and profanation of the rites. They pursued them to put

THE Virgin did indeed die, but as she alone of all creatures was free from original sin, so she alone was exempt from the pain of death; born without sin she died without suffering; and it is to be believed that her most holy body is together with her soul in heaven, since it has never been found in this world. Where if it had been, we cannot but suppose that in so great a number of years her precious Son would have revealed it to some one of so many his saints, martyrs, and confessors as have flourished in his church militant.-GARIBAY, 7. 4.

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She had a will in the business of redemp- I believe in the Holy Ghost. St. Simon,

tion.

"ella siendo elegida

su intencion fue de parir

e escusar nos el morir

Y administrar nos la vida." Las 400 Respuestas, t. 1, p. 28. The Apostles hid themselves on the day of the Crucifixion and the following Saturday, for fear of the Jews, and had lost all hope and all faith. The Virgin was the only person who believed that he would rise again—the lumen fidei remansit in her only. —1 Partida, tit. 23, ley 6.

JOSEPH FRANCESCO BORRI, a scoundrel of the 17th century, attempted to set up a new system of Christianity, of which the leading doctrine was that the Virgin Mary was the only daughter of God, and the Holy Ghost incarnate.

The Creed.

THE parts of the Creed are allotted to the several Apostles with sufficient propriety of tradition or invention.

1 St Peter began-I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. St. John, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord. Santiago, who was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary. St. Andrew, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified dead and buried. St. Philip, he descended into hell. St. Thomas, on the third day he rose again from the dead. St. Bartholomew, he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father. St. Matthew, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. St. James the Less,

1 The authority is a Sermon 2. Dom. Palm. attributed to St. Augustine. It is said that there has scarcely been any heresy which is not contra

dicted by some part or other of the creed, and many modern heretics con damnata proposizione have held that it was not necessary to salvation to believe any thing more than what was contained

therein.-BERNINA. 1. 5.

the Holy Catholick Church, the communion of Saints. St Judas, the forgiveness of sinners. St. Mathias, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. I suppose they all said Amen together.-1 Partida, tit. 3, ley. 1.

Now these are called articles- quasi Articuli-joints of the faith.

THE mystery of the number seven is observable here; seven articles relate to the divinity, seven to the humanity of Christ.— Ibid. ley 2.

THE sacraments are seven because seven

evils proceeded from the fall, and each has its peculiar antidote or remedy appointed. Original sin is taken away by baptism, mortal sins by penitence, venial by extreme unction, ignorance by ordination, weakness of spirit by confirmation, frailty of the flesh by matrimony, the evil nature by the eucharist. Ibid. tit. 4, ley 1.

THE Legend of St. Iria or Erea must be related as from her the ancient Scalabis, or Julium Præsidium, has acquired the name Santarem.

Eria being a pious child was entrusted to two aunts, both religionists in a nunnery on the banks of the Nabao, now adjoining the bridge of Tomar. Britaldo, son of the lord of the land fell in love with her, and fell sick for pure despair, never having told his love for he knew it to be hopeless. Erea knew by revelation the secret cause of his malady, went to him and reasoned with him in so holy and effectual a strain that Britaldo said he was contented, and only besought that no other man might ever obtain the love which he would cease to desire, for that would drive him to desperate vengeance.

It came to pass that Remigio, the virgin's tutor, yielded to the devil's power and tempted her, but in vain. To revenge his disappointment he gave her the juice of certain herbs, which made her swell and

M. LUSITANA-MORALES.

appear pregnant. Every body believed her shame; the report reached Britaldo, and by his orders a knight seized her while she was praying on the shore of the river, stripped her, reproached her for her incontinance, cut her throat, and threw the body into the stream. It was of course supposed that she had either fled to conceal her honour, or perhaps destroyed herself. But her uncle Selio, a holy abbot, was informed by revelation of all that had passed and where he should find her body, buried by angels. All this he related to the people when assembled in church, and went with them to see it confirmed. The corpse had been carried into the Zezere and by that into the Tagus, and left at the foot of the rock or hill whereon the town then called Julium Præsidium was built. Here they found it in a tomb the work of the angels, redolent of sanctity and in the beauty of beatitude. They would have removed this marvellous tomb to her convent, but no human strength could lift it, they therefore were obliged to content themselves with a lock of her hair, and a relique of the shift, the only garment which the murderer had left her. The Tagus then turned her stream a little, and covered the sepulchre. I take this to be one of those tales which were not designed to be believed by the inventors —a religious romance.

King Dinis and Queen S. Isabel wishing to ascertain this miracle, the river opened and left a path to the tomb, but they could not open it to remove the reliques. He placed a mark upon the spot.-M. LUSIT.

2. 6. 24.

Relics

WERE formerly a necessary of religion. By the fifth African or Carthagenian Council no church could be built without them. They were to be in the altar, so fastened that they could not be got at without entirely destroying it, hence it was said in the mass 66 Oramus te Domine per merita Sanctorum, quorum reliquiæ hic sunt," &c.

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and then the priest kissed the altar. The custom in the time of MORALES was no longer in use.-10. 9. 33.

MORALES accounts well for the relics of the Archangel Michael, which Garibay had pronounced impossible: it was some earth or stone from the cave in Mount Garganus where he had miraculously appeared.— Ibid. 10. 9. 36.

Purgatory.

PURGATORY is close to hell, but the soul is sometimes punished in the grave, and sometimes on the spot where it has sinned. Apparitions have revealed this.—Las 400 Respuestas, p. 1, ff. 74.

AND purgatory-fire is the same as hellfire-by some sort of Rumford contrivance. Ibid. p. 2, ff. 69.

HELL, purgatory and the two limbo's are all called infiernos. The limbo of the patriarchs and prophets is a deep abyss, the other is for unbaptized children.-Ibid. p. 2, ff. 70.

THE first saint who had a church dedicated to her honour after the Apostles Peter and Paul was St. Agnes, the second St. Laurence. Constantine according to P. Damasus built one over his grave. There is nothing improbable in his legend: he was archdeacon to P. Sextus II. and had the treasures of the church in charge. In Valerian's persecution the Pope was martyred, and Laurentius tortured to make him discover the money. He had distributed it among the poor, expecting this. On this account his death was more cruel than that of Sextus. He was broiled, and during the torments said to the Emperor who was present, Turn me-for this side is done-and you may begin to eat.' In this nothing is unlikely except that Valerian himself should have looked on. da fés have been the spectacles of none but Catholic kings.—MORALES, 9. 46. 22.

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No saint was more jealous of his honour. P. Pelagius II. wished to adorn his sepulchre, and not knowing in what part of the church it lay, ordered the monk and ministers of the church to dig all over it. Though all who were employed were religious, and though when they saw the body, not one ventured to touch it, every one died within ten days. San Gregory, the immediate successor of Pelagius relates this. Lib. 3, epist. 30. (is the epistle genuine?) Perhaps they let out an infectious fever, but I believe there would be no other bodies in the church. "When I was a young lad at Salamanca," says MORALES, a rich Hidalgo who had two horses sent the best to be shod on St. Laurence's day. The blacksmith begged him to use his other beast that day, and not insist that the work should be done on a day so sacred. The Hidalgo insisted, and the horse on his way home was taken ill and died in two hours. I myself saw him at the farriers where they were endeavouring to save him, and heard the blacksmith lamenting that his warning had been given in vain."-Ibid. 30. 1.

The Cross.

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ADAM being now ready to die, felt a fear of death, and desired earnestly a branch from the Tree of Life in Paradise. He therefore sent one of his sons thither to fetch one, in hope that he might escape this dreadful reward of sin. The son went, and made his petition to the cherub who guarded the gate, and received from him a bough; but Adam meanwhile had departed, he therefore planted it on his father's grave; it struck root and grew into a great tree, and attracted the whole nature of Adam to its nutriment.

This tree together with the bones of Adam from beneath it, was preserved in the ark. After the waters had abated Noah divided these relics among his sons. The skull was Shem's share. He buried it in a mountain of Judæa, called from thence Calvary and Golgotha, or the place of a

BARROS.

Skull, in the singular. The tree was by remarkable providence preserved and made into the cross on which Christ was crucified, and this cross was erected in that very place where Adam's skull was buried. "So that he who perpends the matter well shall find that whole Adam as it were is recollected in and under the cross, and so with an admirable tie, conjoined to the vivifical nature itself: which how pleasant, efficacious and full of consolation let each one consider; for he that deserved death is present in and under the cross, and he that repaired life, yea that is life itself, is affixed to the cross; the true concordance of life and death, of a sinless Saviour and sinful man; whereby life is united to death, and Christ to Adam, not without the superinfusion of blood, like celestial dew for better and more fecundity, that so Adam and his posterity eating of the fruit of this transplanted tree might be really transplanted into Christ, and by a certain celestial magnetism and sympathy attracted to heaven, translated to life, and made heirs of happiness."

The second part of the Mumial Treatise of Tentzelius, being a natural Account of the Tree of Life and of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, with a Mystical Interpretation of that great Secret, to wit, the Cabalistical Concordance of the Tree of Life and Death, of Christ and Adam.-Trans. by N. TURNER, Þiλoμalns, London, 1657.

WHEN the Queen of Sheba was on her way to Jerusalem, she had to cross certain beams laid by way of bridge, but being illumined by the spirit of prophecy she turned, and saying "she would not put her feet upon that whereon the Saviour of the world was to suffer," she desired Solomon to remove the predestinated timber. -BARROS, 3. 4. 2. from the Abyssinian Tradition.

No suffering was ever equal to that of the Redeemer, because as his body was

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