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days they are free to sell and buy without paying any tax. 
On those days, which fall in the fifth month, great and unusual 
boons are granted to the people: no scandal (scandalum).' 
arises among them ; no fly sits on putrefied meat, nor is water 
water is drawn from a depth of more than one hundred feet, 
now, if vou dig a very little, you will — water welling up in 
plenty : which favours, there is no t, are granted by 
the power of the Holy Apostle. ee mien ‘the days are over, 
taxes are again imposed on the ic; the flies which had 
disappeared return, and the water. idol had been quite near, 
cedes. After that, there is such a supernitural downpour of 
rain, that the entire court-yard of the temple is swept so clean 
of all dirt and divers kinds of defilement that you would think 
the place had not even been trodden 
Mgr. Medlycott took much pains to show that the climatic 
conditions do not suit Edessa in July, the 5th month according 
to the ancient Roman reckoning, and that, whereas the depth 
of the wells is exaggerated for Mylapore,é — free fairs are 
yet common in India.* We might add that the tale of 
wonders sounds peculiarly Indian. It reads like the manifes- 
agents make when they want to bring the people to some 
famous ane on a great pilgrimage. This would only show 
bhailicas iz in qua postea translatus est.” Cf Migne, P.L., Tom. 71, col. 733 
(S. Gregorii Episcopi Turonensis Miraculorum, Lib. 1, de Gloria Martyrum, 
Cap. XXXII). Some MSS. attribute therefore to Edessa the stories of the 
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in discussing such texts, and how Mgr. Medlycott would have 
done well to discuss more fully the different variants of the text, a piece 
of work which it is impossible to undertake here in India. ; 
' The meaning seems to be ‘ no quarrel arises’; ‘ no one gets hurt.’ Is 
there not a notion among t the Hindus that at certain ii of pore 
V. R. Phi ilipps ([nd. date Pook $2, 1903, p. 1651): “ His (Gre- 
sas 's] T believe of the depth of the well ‘could hardly apply to air 
por I believe that the depth of wells at rained is from to 
60 feo 
uinart (in Migne, P. L., tom. 71, col. 733 n. /) writes: ‘‘ Ac- 
cording to the a of the ‘geriniit who began 
vem) ae this is the month ot March, when the Syrians celebra the 
feast of St. Thomas, as ap oe from thet Calendar, which mogrentair 
published 4 at Lyons in 1615 with his Commentary on the Psalms; the La- 
tins, however, celebrate on the "ard of J july. or of the 5th month, oe tent 
of St. t. Thomas, i.e of his Translation.” Mgr. Med] yeott (op. cit., p. 76) 
notes that the seazon of the rains at Urta or Edessa is in a months of 
January to March inclusive, which, if Ruinart is right, wo go against 
identifying with Mylapore the place where the scene is Inia. But is Rui- 
t ertai 
; ted his transl 
on July 3, and I suppose that was anciently, abe perhaps still, in their 
Calendars, the 5th month. 
