170 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
ee to be derived next from anointing oneself with the 
uid.! Indeed, when, according to the custom of the feast, 
tis ap iene as has been said, returns each vear to the afore- 
said Church, he is followed by a great concourse of people, 
men and women, all of them clamouring and demanding unceas- 
ingly even the smallest particle of the balsam burning before the 
Apostle’s tribunal: for no one doubts that, God willing, the 
sick, whatever their illness, will recover at once when anointed 
with j 
& Next, as in the holy solemnities of Kaster. the Patriarch. 
with his suffragan Bishops, prepares himself to lower(?) the 
said concha;* after which, amid hymns and spiritual praises, 
they lower(?) little by little the concha with the sacred body. 
Taking up the Apostle’s sacred body with much trembling = 
great reverence, they place it ona golden seat near the alta 
[P. 134]. By the creator’s will, he is yet so entire that a 
appears as when he walked the earth alive. His face shines 
like a star; his hair is red and falls almost on to his shoulders ; 
his beard is red and crisp, but not long ; his whole appearance. 
in fine, is most comely to see. His clothes too are still as 
strong and entire as when first put on. 


ee above, in this pear how St. Gregory of Tours — in 
sioue seattas terms about the lamp mentioned by Theodore. the 
Oriental Chr piibeliies would ee incredible stories about the estat of 
sara churche: 
Johann Risto was told of the satin iageie of St. Catherine, at 
Mount Sinai, that ‘* when a monk is — o die, his lamp becomes s dim 
me of the m 
he abbot, and his lamp relights 0 of sas siaes 2: es aaa 
phe apie a adele Tehilborgiie a native of B a, in Eu 
rp ape 1396-1427. By J. Buchan Telfer, teadun fades: alert 
Pp 
Johann was at the Church vot the Holy a ae phigiertorte 
a lamp that burns all the year un cf nes ‘ oe ida 
ssem 
this story is heard earlier than 0, geo" vias penance ene? ns 
considered it a fraud, but that the. path the paont thon the Egy pula: 
and the Parse ssinians believed in 
I icut temple, foment toa Jewish Sclavonian pilot — 
back ts bie m perforce, ‘‘on a certain day of the year, some lamps ! 
this same temple [with s venitersany apparitions) begin to burn spomtane: 
ously and cause many deformit —— Cf. ournal 
of the first Voyage of Vasco ekg ors 1497-1498 By E. G. Ravenstein, 
G. 
London Sr Society, 1898, p. 13 
' praedictam concham pelo ndendam cum suis svffra- 
ganeis episc opi patriarcha velut in sac aschalibus solemnitatibus 
praeparat — et post haec cum hymnis ot épiviynaliboos laudibus paula- 
tim expendunt cum sacro corpore concham.” The word expendere might 
mean ‘to examine’; but the penance “which w. us ave seems to meet 
the rase better. The word occurs once more lower fn the same sense. 
Germann also vindePatieets it as ina: to lower.’ (See infra). 
