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The bleeding of the host, produced in consequence of 

 the scepticism of the officiating priest, gave rise to the 

 miracle of Bolsena in 1264, the priest's garment stained 

 with blood being preserved until quite recent times as a 

 relic. This gave rise to the foundation of the festival of 

 the Corpus Christi by Urban iv., although Raphael, 

 painting his celebrated picture in 1512, substitutes 

 Julius n." 



Dr. D'Aubigne", in his History of the Reformation, 

 thus describes from the writings of Zwingle in a some- 

 what inflated, but vivid and interesting style, the ap- 

 pearance of a similar phenomenon : "On the 26th of 

 July, a widow, chancing to be alone in her house, in the 

 village of Castelenschloss, suddenly beholds a frightful 

 spectacle, blood springing from the earth all around her ; 

 she rushes in alarm into the cottage . . . but oh, horrible ! 

 blood is flowing everywhere, from the earth, from the 

 wainscot, and from the stones ; it falls in a stream from 

 a basin on a shelf, and even the child's cradle overflows 

 with it. The woman imagines that the invisible hand 

 of an assassin has been at work, and rushes in distrac- 

 tion out of doors, crying, ' Murder, murder !' The vil- 

 lagers and the monks of a neighbouring convent as- 

 semble at the noise ; they partly succeed in effacing the 

 bloody stains ; but a little later in the day the other in- 

 habitants of the house, sitting down in terror to eat 

 their evening meal under the projecting eaves, suddenly 

 discover blood bubbling up in a pond, blood flowing 

 from the loft, blood covering all the walls of the house. 

 Blood, blood ! everywhere blood ! The bailiff of Schen- 

 kenberg and the pastor of Dalheim arrive, inquire into 



