“A finger of a cherubim;
“The water-pots used at the marriage in Galilee;
“The slippers of the antediluvian Enoch;
“The face of a seraphim, with only part of the nose;
“The ‘snout’ of a seraphim, thought to have belonged to the preceding;
“The coal that broiled St. Lawrence;
“The square buckler, lined with ‘red velvet,’ and the short sword of St. Michael;
“A phial of the ‘sweat of St. Michael,’ when he contended with Satan;
“Some of the rays of the star that appeared to the Magi; with innumerable others, not quite consistent with decency to be here described.
“The miracles wrought by these and other such precious remains, have been enlarged upon by writers, whose testimony, aided by the protecting care of the inquisition, no one durst openly dispute who was not of the ‘holy brotherhood;’ although it would appear, by the confessions of some of those respectable persons, that ‘instances have occurred of their failure,’ but that they always ‘recovered their virtue, when,’ as Galbert, a monk of Marchiennes, informs us, ‘they were flogged with rods, &c.!’”[178]