FOOTNOTES:
[39] Rom. xiv. 17.
[40] St. John vi. 63.
[41] Acts x. 13.
[42] Christ-eater.
[43] Matt. vi. 7.
[44] Matt. xv. 7-9.
[45] Matt. xv. 10, 11.
[46] 1 John i. 8, 9, 10, c. v. 16.
[47] Luke xvii. 3.
[48] This is the famous Bullicame of Viterbo, a thermal spring, which existed many years before this famous Madonna. Dante makes mention of it.
[49] Every town in Italy has its patron saint, besides several subordinate ones. Naples has its St. Januarius, and about fifty subalterns.
[50] Ad majorem Dei gloriam, is the motto of the Jesuits.
[51] A class of heretics so called.
[52] Beata is a degree below Saint, as Bachelor of Arts is below Master.
[53] Mark xiv. 27.
[54] Matt. xxvi. 34.