240 MONASTERY OF CHIQUI NQU IRA . 



|>resents into cash as soon as they possibly 

 can, after receiving them ; taking care, how- 

 ever, to send them for sale to some distant 

 province. 



During the civil war in Colombia, Cer- 

 viere, a French officer, who commanded a 

 considerable party, believed that if he took 

 possession of the sacred image of the Virgin, 

 all the worshippers would pay their adora- 

 tions to it in the place to which he should 

 convey it, and that in the capacity of the 

 new pontiff, he should receive all the offer- 

 ings which might be made at her shrine. 

 Cervi^re therefore seized the image, and 

 carried it off ; he however found himself 

 much mistaken in his supposition, for no 

 one went near him, considering that he had 

 committed a sacrilege, and that the Virgin, 

 would manifest her power in some mira- 

 culous manner of restoring the relic to its 

 proper abode. Shortly after this novel and 



