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rity se hid it under the ground, but 
soon after died without mentioning the 
place of concealment. The depositor 
demanding his property, Spyridon in 
vain searched the bouse for it ; whereon 
he went to the grave of his daughter, 
and in a loud voice demanded where 
she had deposited her trust ; she imme- 
diately informed him where it lay hid- 
den, and he on returning to his house, 
found it as she had said, and restored 
it to the owner.”? This same Spyridon 
gave part of his yearly produce to the 
poor, and lent to others without taking 
interest. When a person came to bou- 
row, he shewed him the store-house, 
and bid him supply his wants; and 
when a borrower returned his loan, he 
desired him to take it whence he had 
it. A man coming ove day pretend- 
ing to return his loan, Spyridon. bid 
him place it in the store-bouse; but 
the person, insfead of so doing, carried 
it back with him. Awhile after, the 
same person caine again to borrow some 
corn; and was told, as usual, by the 
bishop, to go and take what he needed ; 
he went accordingly, but could not see 
any, on which he came and informed 
the bishop. The holy man said, how 
is it that you only of all persons find 
the store-house empty? Reflect with 
yourself whether you have not neg- 
lected to restore what you borrowed; 
and have faith that if you had not 
failed, this would not have been, and 
you will find what you want. The 
man was astonished at the bishop 
knowing his deception, and solicited 
pardon. 
Evagrius mentions this miracle 
of Zosimus (lib. iv. c. vii.) “ This 
holy man going to Cesarea, with his 
baggage on an ass, was met by a lion, 
which seized the ass, and devoured 
him in a forest, whither Zosimus fol- 
lowed, and expostulated with the lion, 
that as the saint was neither sufficiently 
young nor strong to bear his baggage, 
the lion should foratime become tract- 
able, aud carry it for him. On this 
the lion fawned on him, allowed the 
baggage to be placed on his back, and 
accompanied Zosimus to the gates of 
Cesarea.”’ 
The same writer tells (ce. xxxvi.) 
that when Epiphanius was bishop of 
Constantinople, the custom had long 
been, when much bread remained after 
serving the communicants, to send 
for some of the children from the 
schools to eat it. Among these boys 
there was ‘one whose father was a Jew, 
Extracts from the Story of the Miraculous Host. — {Aprikd, 
a maker of glass; and he going home 
one day later than usual, was asked by 
his father what had detained him.. The 
boy said he had been at church with 
the other children, and had been eating 
some bread. he father conjecturing 
what it was, in a violent rage instantly 
threw his son into the furnace of melt- 
ed glass. The boy’s mother not finding 
him, sought him in the streets, which 
resounded with her lamentations: 
but after three days, as she was bewail- 
ing her son nigh the door of the glass- 
house, she heard him address her from 
within: and forcing her way, she found 
him standing upright in the midst of 
the furnace, altogether uninjured by 
the fire, and the melted glass. She 
then inquired of him, how he had been 
preserved in the flames, and he said, he 
had been several times visited by a 
lady dressed in purple robes, who ex- 
tinguished the fire, and gave him food.” 
Along with the legend of the Mira- 
culous Host. is also published an ae- 
count of St. Catharine of Sienna, whose 
name I find mentioned as a companion 
of St. Mary Magdalene, of Pazzi, in 
her life, (edit. Paris, 1670) and whe 
appears to be very little, if any, infe- 
rior to St. Catharine. | 1 submita few 
instances to your notice. The writer 
says: ** Soon after she became a nun, 
in her seventeenth year, she was on 
the ground in an eestacy, out of which 
being recovered, after many discourses 
most highly spiritual, she untied her 
shoes and stockings before all the nuns, 
and threw them on the ground, and 
with great fierceness ran into hercham- 
ber, and got up all the furniture, ex- 
cept a crucifix, two boards to lie upon, 
with a coverlet and pillow; she then 
put on the oldest and worst habit in 
the convent, and went into the church 
and sang aloud, Te Dewn Laudamus. A 
year afterwards there was represented 
to her a horrible and dreadful place, full 
of devils of monstrous shapes. For five 
years she was abandoned to the fury of 
those infernal monsters, and suffered 
the most extreme agonies and pains. 
Five furious devils attacked her; the 
first tempted her with blasphemy and 
infidelity ; the second with pride and 
presumption ; the third with gluttony ; 
the fourth with lasciviousness; ‘and 
the fifth with despair. Sometimes she 
continued whole weeks without any 
other nourishment than that received 
from the holy eucharist. She girt her- 
self with a large girdle, pointed vith 
sharp iron ; she used sharp whips,with 
