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which he sowed. From these grew the vines which I saw at 
that place, and from them he made the wine of which he stood 
inneed. Elsewhere there are saris indeed, but they bear no 
grapes, as I know by experience.’ 
Between this little excursion into the Christian folklore of 
Mylapore in 1349 and the story of Peter de Natalibus there is 
sufficient affinity to justify one in Wea erro that the Edessa 
legend may have led to the one at Mylapore. Until we dis- 
cover that the legend of the ei vine-steck belongs indeed to 
Edessa, we like to think, however, that it grew up at Mylapore. 
Here is yet another ex travagance. We read in the Acta 
can of the Bollandists, under July 3 :— 
“These same [women Saints] are mentioned | in the Gynde- 
ceum: added to them we there find: ‘In East India, [the 
feast] of Blessed Clara, a Dominican virgin, daughter of the 
King of Calamina, who by her eminent virtues prepared for 
herself the way to heaven.’ Pius Arthur Anthony de Baling- 
hem took her from Seraphin Razzius, who, in the Lives of the 
Saints of his Order, p. 353. spun out a story which is as in- 
credible as it is wonderful. No author ity, no reference is 
given : all oh serene and geographical ecnaecain is lack- 
ing. Among other wonders here is one, by way of specimen, 
from it one a shige of the rest. ‘In the parts of India,’ 
says Razzius, ‘ St. Clara is held in such — that, among 
sixty Christian kingdoms, there are found in 
alone CCC monasteries of Sisters of the Order az Preachers, 
iu 
a a apg Razzius’ Pench translator, prudently omitted 
er.”’* 

the same story: ‘‘{The trees of Paradise] are there ih prbeiee stil] in ex- 
istence, as the Pantheon says, and this is shown by uits and leav 
which are sometimes carried forth by those pt “e are sean by 
ours. u 
they flow also in other countries! ( iia “Tf 346. 
\H. Yule, Cathay “ the way thither, II (1368), P . 363. Grapes 
grown at = pore in Portuguese times. Each bunch Thad to to be protected 
by a leather bag against the depredations ot birds and squirrels. Ct. 
Co ol. Love, Vestiges of Old Madras, IL, 334. In the Convent of the he 
Sisters, near Mae de Deos Church, at Mylapore, I noti iced a big vin 
he 
f. Acta Sanctorum... ae ... a Conrado Be bercon ahh ger 
Solerio. et Joanne Pinnio, e Societate Jes Boor . V. Palmé, 1867 
(Ist vol. of July or vol. 28 of Pa me's poinections 'p. 55 5). 
I found this passage by good luck, while looking for St. Thom 
oo under July 3. Who knows what other scarce “osetia about 
Thomas , Mylapore, Calamina, and India generally. that enormou 
Snikecion conceal s? The systematic treatment of the St. Thomas ques 
