Footnotes:
[[662]] St. Ambrose, Com. on St. Luke, i. c. 1.
[[663]] Martha Brossier, daughter of a weaver at Romorantin, was shown as a demoniac, in 1578. See De Thou on this subject, book cxxiii. and tom. v. of the Journal of Henry III., edition of 1744, p. 206, &c. The affair of Loudun took place in the reign of Louis XIII.; and Cardinal Richelieu is accused of having caused this tragedy to be enacted, in order to ruin Urban Grandier, the curé of Loudun, for having written a cutting satire against him.
[[664]] M. de Lannoy has made a particular dissertation De Causà Secessionis S. Brunonis: he solidly refutes this fable. Nevertheless, this event is to be found painted in the fine pictures of the little monastery of the Chartreux at Paris.
[[665]] Eliberitan Council, an. 305 or 313, in the kingdom of Grenada. Others have thought, but mistakenly, that it was Collioure in Roussillon.
[[666]] Jesus, the son of Sirach, author of Ecclesiasticus, believes this apparition to be true. Ecclus. xlvi. 23.
[[667]] This story has been related in the former part of the work, but more succinctly.
[[668]] Arist. Treatise on Dreams and Vigils.
[[669]] The Abbé de Vallemont, in his work on the Singularities of Vegetation. Paris, 1 vol. 12mo.
[[670]] This was a century and a half ago; but the Philosophical Transactions record no account of any successful result to such experiments.