235
Ibid. 17 Aug. p. 255.
236
Ibid. 4 Aug. p. 405.
237
Vita S. Christina. 24 Jul. Bolland. pp. 652, 653.
238
Nicole, tom. i. Letters, pp. 203, 205. Letter xlv.
239
Vita Sancti Dunstani, xi. 42.
240
It is worthy of remark, that in the cases which Calmet refers to of persons in his own time, and of his own acquaintance, being thus raised from the ground, he in no instance states himself to have been a witness of the wonder.
241
Petrus Venerab. lib. ii. de Miraculis, c. 1, p. 1299.
242
1 Sam. xvi. 23.
243
Matt. viii. 16; x. 11; xviii. 28.
244
Tob. iii. 8.
245
Justin. Dialog. cum supplem. Tertull. de Corona Militis, c. 11; and Apolog. c. 23; Cyp. ad Demetriam, &c.; Minutius, in Octavio, &c.
246
James i. 14.
247
Joseph. Antiq. lib. vii. c. 25.
248
Ibid. lib. viii. c. 2.
249
Matt. xii. 24.
250
Luke viii. 21.
251
Luke x. 17.
252
Mark xvi. 27.
253
Mark ix. 36-38. Acts xi. 14.
254
Acts xix. 14.
255
Jean de Lorres, sur l'an 1599. Thuan. Hist. l. xii.
256
Charles IX. died in 1574.
257
This story is taken from a book entitled "Examen et Discussion Critique de l'Histoire des Diables de Loudun, &c., par M. de la Ménardaye." A Paris, chez de Bure l'Ainé, 1749.
258
Trésor et entière Histoire de la Victime du Corps de Dieu, presentée au Pape, au Roi, au Chancelier de France, au Premier Président. A Paris, 4to. chez Chesnau. 1578.
259
This account is one of the many in which the theory of possession was made use of to impugn the Protestant faith. The simplicity and credulity of Calmet are very remarkable. – Editor.