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The carrying of the Popes ‘by Switzers under a Canopie’ is a ‘Relique of the Divine Honours given to Cæsar’; the carriage of Images in Procession ‘a Relique of the Greeks and Romans.’

One of the most curious instances of relique worship occurred here in the reign of �neas Sylvius, Pope Pius II.

Cette Bouche-de-V�rit� est une curieuse relique du moyen �ge.

May I suggest that they are a relique of the old population of the mountain vallies imperfectly Christianised, therefore despised by the more enlightened population of the neighbourhood,—half-civilised, perhaps, and physically degraded by the same causes which have given the go�tre and the idiocy of the Cretin to the inhabitants of the Valais.

The first and most ancient Relique, is the Shift which the Holy Virgin had on when she was delivered of our Lord.