FOOTNOTES:
[75] "The Most Illustrious and Most Reverend Cardinals require a most illustrious and a most reverend reformation."
[76] In the cemetery near to these bones, a broken stone was found, on which was to be read the following inscription:—Lumena in Pace ☧ Fi ... Don Francesco, on the authority of the sacristan, had no doubt the word Filumena was signified by the Fi....
[77] Matt. xi. 28.
[78] John xiv. 6.
[79] Matt. xv. 14.
[80] The same question might be asked with respect to the late pretended miracle of the image of the Virgin at Rimini moving its eyes. A shameless imposture, honoured by Pio Nono with the institution of an annual festival in its commemoration!
[81] 1 Tim. iii. 1.
[82] Matt. xx. 25, 26.
[83] For six hundred years it had never happened that the General of the Order had been dismissed by the Pope. It was the contrivance of a few ambitious friars, among whom Monsignor O'Finan, Bishop of Killala, in Ireland, was the most active.
[84] See the letter in the Appendix.
[85] Matt, vi. 15.
[86] Luke xvii. 3, 4.
[87] Rom. xiv. 23.
[88] 2 Tim. iv. 1, 2.