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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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gain, like the storm gathering over the woods.At the side of the altar stood the archiepiscopal throne, half in shadowamid the tall lights, red and gold; amid the piles of barbaric splendor,canopies, carvings, emblems. We visited the chapels on the following day. In one of them aLatin inscription tells the visitor,— Here repose the three bodies of the holy magi. The guide said, — This is the tomb of the Three Kings of Cologne. The Wise Men of the East who came to worship at the cradle atBethlehem. Ask him how he got them, said Willie. The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, recovered themand sent them to Milan. When Frederick Barbarossa took the city ofMilan, he received them among the spoils and sent them to Cologne.The names of the Magi were Gaspar, Melchior, Balthazar. Do you believe the legend ? asked Willie. I do not know; we shall find things harder than this to believe,I fancy, as we go on. And we did. Leaving the tomb, — a pile of jewels, — we went out, and near the
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ST. MARTINS CHURCH, COLOGNE. COLOGNE. J95 outskirts of the city found the famous Church of Skulls, — a gildedossuary, associated with a mediaeval legend. It was full of cabinetsof bones, said to be those of eleven thousand virgins slain for theirfaith by the Huns. Here we were shown — A part of the rod with which the Saviour was scotirged. A thorn from the crown of thorns, — the Spicula. The pitcher in which Jesus turned water into wine. The Mediaeval Church, said our English-speaking guide, whohad little faith in the genuineness of the relics, has exhibited somerelics from time to time that would repay a long and arduous pilgrim-age if they were what they purported to be; as, for instance, a featherof the angel Gabriel, the snout of a seraph, a ray from the star ofBethlehem, two skulls of the same saint, —one taken when the departedsaint was somewhat younger, as flippantly explained to an astonishedtourist, who found in two cities the same consecrated cranium. But of all the

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