CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. lxxxi 



that they were praying most fervently, and I 

 heard neither threat nor abuse ; all appeared 

 excessive devotional fervour on their parts. 



At one o'clock, p. m. by my watch, no symp- 

 toms whatever of a change in the blood had 

 occurred. A vast number of people had al- 

 ready left the cathedral, so that I found the 

 temperature of the place considerably lowered. 



Precisely at a quarter before two in the 

 afternoon the blood suddenly and entirely 

 liquefied. The canon who held the case passed 

 close by me, and afforded me a most favourable 

 opportunity of accompanying him close up to the 

 high altar, where I kissed the phial, and joined 

 my humble prayers to those of the multitude 

 who were blessing and praising Almighty God 

 for this signal mark of his favour in the stu- 

 pendous miracle which had just taken place. 



I kissed the phial again an hour after this, 

 and again at the expiration of another hour, 

 and so on, making in all five times, an hour 

 always intervening betwixt each devotional salu- 

 tation. By means of these repeated inspections 

 of the blood, I saw that it remained in it^; 

 liquid state without any apparent tendency to 

 congelation, although the temperature of the 



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