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cause_n	body_n	great_a	know_v	1,518	5	3.5656	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17729	A very profitable treatise made by M. Ihon Caluyne, declarynge what great profit might come to al christendome, yf there were a regester made of all sainctes bodies and other reliques, which are aswell in Italy, as in Fraunce, Dutchland, Spaine, and other kingdomes and countreys. Translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Steuen Wythers. 1561. Set furth and authorised according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.; Traité des reliques. English.	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Wythers, Stephen.	1561 (1561)	STC 4467; ESTC S112756	40,893	126

was cut of as if it had bene a Iewell worthy to be made a relique I had forgotten his Croisier the which is shewen at sainct Steuen of Grees at Paris of the which is to be estemed as much as of the aulter or of the cope for it standeth wyth lyke reason There is a lytell more apperraunce of his weapon For it may well be presuppossed or thought that he myght goynge by the fyeldes be armed with suche a staffe But thei marre all in that they can not agree For they of Cologne fermeli maintaine that they haue it likewise they of Tryer so in beliyng the one the other thei geue good occasion that one shuld beleue neither of thē both I leaue to speake of sainct paulles chaine wherwith he was bound the which is shewen at Rome in his church Item of the peller wheron sainct peter was marterede the which is at sainct Anastase I leaue only to the readers to Iudge Frō whence this chaine was gotten for to be made a relique Item to wit if in those daies the maner were to put men to death vpon pillers We will Ioyntly intreate of all the other Apostles for to make an ende the sonner And first of al we will rehearse where there is holle bodyes to the ende that in conferring the one to the other one may iudge what sure holde may be taken of their sayinges Euery one dothe knowe that the towne of Thoulouse thinketh to haue the syxt to wit sainct Iames the greater sainct Andrew sainct Iames lesser sainct Philippe sainct Simon and sainct Iude. At padue is sainct mathias body at Salerne sainct Matthewes bodi at Ortone sainct Thomas body in the kingdom of Naples S. Barthelmews bodye Let vs nowe marke whiche of them haue two or thre bodyes Sainct Andrewe hath a second body at Melphe sainct Philipe and sainct Iames the lesser eache of them also an other body at Rome in sainct Peters Churche saincte Barthelmew also another at Rōe in hys Churche And yet aboue all this the skinne of sainct Barthelmew is at Pise Notwithstandinge sainct Mathias is aboue all the others For he hath a seconde bodye at Rome in the Churche of sainct Marye the greater and a thirde bodye at Trier Besydes this he hath a head and an arme aparte likewise at Rome It is trew that the lightell peices of S. Andrewe which are heare and there If they were put together behalfe as muche for at Rome in sainct peters Churche there is a head in sainct Grisogone a shoulder at sainct Eustacea side at the holy ghosts church an arme I can not tel what other part at Blaise at Aix in prouince a fote Whosoeuer shoulde ioyne these together it woulde be inough for to make two whole quarters prouidynge that one could wel proportion thē Now as S. Bartelmewes skinne is at Pise so is one of his handes there At Trier there is I knowe not what membre at Freius a finger at Rome in sainct Barbares church other reliques So yet he is not one of the poorest for the others haue not so muche Albeit that euerye one hath yet some lytle parte As Sayncte Phylyppe hathe a foote at Rome at the holye Apostles and at Saynct Barbares I can not name what reliques Item more at Trier In these two last Churches he hath Sainct Iames for his companiō Who hath likewyse in sainct Peters church his head and an arme at Sainct Grisogone another at the holye Apostles Sainct Mathewe and Saynct Thomas haue remayned the moste poorest For the fyrste wyth his bodye hath but onely certayne bones at Trier an arme at Rome at sainct Marcell and at saynct Nicolas a head Vnlesse peraduenture some thynge haue escaped me whych maye well be done for in suche a darkenesse who shall not be confused Because they fynde in their Chronicles that the body of sainct Iohn the Euangelist dyd vanishe away incontinently after it was putte in the Graue They coulde not brynge forthe anye of hys bones But for the supplyinge of thys want they cast themselues vpon his baggage And fyrste of all they haue bene aduised of the Chalice in whiche he drancke the Poyson beynge condempned by Domician But for asmuche as two wyll haue it either we must beleue that which the alchumistes saye of their multiplicatiō or that these with their chalice haue mocked the worlde The one is at Bullin and the other at Rome at sainct Iohn of Latran They haue afterwardes inuented to haue founde his Iacket and the chaine wherewith he was bound when thei led him prisoner from Ephesus with the oratorye wherein he accustomed to praye being in prison I woulde gladlye know if there were at that tyme hired Ioiners for to make him oratories Item what familiaritie or acquaintance the christians had with his kepers for to withdrawe the chaine for to make it a relique These mockeries are ouer muche folishe yea if thei were to deceyue litle children with But the moste estemed iewell is the twelue comes of the apostles which thei do shew at our lady of the yle neare Lions I thinke thei were placed there at the beginning for to make men beleue that they were the comes of the .xii. fathers of Fraunce but since their dignitie hath increased and they are become apostolicke We must from henceforth hasten or otherwise we shoulde neuer go out of this forest We wyll then brieflye recite the reliques that they haue of the sainctes which were in the time that Iesus Christ liued then consequentlye of the auncient martirs and of other sainctes Herevpon the reader shal haue occasion to iudge what estimacion they oughte to haue Sainct Anne mother of the virgin Mary hath one of her bodies at Apte in Prouince the other at our lady of the yle at Lions Besides this she hath one head at Trier the other at Turen another at Turinge in a towne named after her name I leaue the pieces which ar in more then a hundred places and amongest all others I remembre that I haue kist one part in the abbey of Orcaps neare Noyon where they make great feastyng Finally she hath one of her armes at Rome in sainct Paules churche Let them proue the foūdacion therof if they can There foloweth after Lazarus and Magdeline his sister As touching him he hath as farre as I know but thre bodies one is at Mersels the other at Authum the thyrd at Aualon It is true that they of Authum haue had great proces against them of Aualon But after that bothe parties had spent much money thei haue both of them won their cause at the least they remaine in possession of the title For asmuch as Magdeline was a woman it behoued that she should be inferiour to her brother therfore she hath had but two bodies whereof the one is at Vesele nere Auserre and the other which is of greater renome at S. Maximins in Prouince There where the head is a part with her noli me tangere whiche

Item a napkyn wherewith the angell wyped hys bodye Seing they haue taken the leasure to dreame such inuencions to deceyue the world let them also that shall see this aduertisment take the leasure to thinke iudge of them for to kepe them selues from being anye more disceyued and mocked Out of the like forge is come his coope which they do show at Rome in sainct Barbares church because thei haue hard say that S. Laurēce was a decon thei thought it mete that he shuld haue the like garments as their decons haue disguising their bodies in playing at the masse But it was another maner of office in those daies in the christiā church then is now at this present in the Papistrie Thei were those that wer appointed or chosen to distribute the almes and not to playe Iugglers feats So thei had no nede nether of sirplices caps tippets nor other folishe clothes for to disguise them selues with We wyll adde to S. Laurence S. Geruais and S. Protais whose sepulchres wer found at Milan in S. Ambrose time as he himself testifieth Likwise also S. Hierom S. Augustine many others And so the towne of Millan maintaineth that she hath yet the bodies besides this not wtstanding thei ar at Brisac in Duchlād at Besansō in S. Peters church besides other infinite pieces which are dispersed in diuers churchs so that it must nedes be that eueri one of them had .iiii. bodies at the least or els the one do cast al the bones that ar shewed by false signes tokēs into the fieldes Forsomuch as thei haue geuē S. Sebastian the office of healing the plague this hath bene the cause that he hath ben more required that mē haue ben more desiroꝰ to haue him This credit and office hath made hym to be multiplied into foure whole bodies whereof one is at Rome at S. Laurence church the other at Soison the third at Pillignie neare Nantes the fourthe neare Narboune in the place where he was borne Besides he hath two heades the one at sainct Peters in Rome the other at the Iacobines of Thoulouse It is true they are but emptye sculles if one haue regarde to the Graye freres of Angiers who saye they haue the braine Item the Iacobines of Angiers haue an arme and thei of sainct Seruin of Thoulouse another another likewise at the case god of Auergne and another at Mombrison in the forest besides the smale litle pieces that are in many other churches But when one shall haue well weyed the matter then let one iudge where sainct Sebastians body is But they haue not bene satisfied with all this but they muste also make reliques of the arrowes wherwith he was shotten whereof they shew one at Lambest in prouince an other at Poiters at the Augustins and the others here there By this men mai euidently se that thei thought neuer to make account of their deceites A like reason hath auailed to S. Anthony for the multipliyng of his reliques for because that he is a colerick and dangerous sainct as thei fain him who doth burne whom soeuer he is angrie with by this opinion he makes him self to be feared and douted The fear hath engēdred deuotion the which hath sharpened the appetite for to make his body to be more desired because of the profit Wherfore the towne of Arles hath had great long combat against the Antoniens of Venis but the issue ende therof was no other then hath bene accustomed to be in such a matter To wit al remaineth stil in confusion For if a man would haue tried out the truth neither of the parties shoulde haue any good cause Wyth these two bodyes there is a kne at the Augustines of Albi there is at Burge at Mascon at Dion at Chalous at Ourour at Besanson reliques of diuers membres besides that which the abusers cary frō coūtrey to countrey which is no small quantitie Behold what a thīg it is to haue an ill name for with out thys the good S. shuld haue remayned in his graue or in some certain corner without any speaking of him at all I had forgotten S. Petronel the doughter of sainct Peter who hath her body whole at Rome in her fathers church Item more reliques besides at sainct Barbares But yet neuertheles she wanteth not therefore to haue another bodye at Maus in the Iacobines couent the which is ther had in greate solemnitie because it doth heale agues For so muche as there hath bene diuers sayncts named Susan I cannot wel tel if their intentiō haue bene to attribute two bodies to one But yet is it that S. Susan hath one bodye at Rome in the church called after her name and another at Thoulouse Sainct Helene hath not bene so happy for besides her body that is at Venise she hath wonne no more then one head only the which is at sainct Gerion of Colongne Sainct Vrsulye hath surmonted her herein for first her bodye is at sainct Iohn of Angell she hath moreouer a heade at Cologne one portion at the Iacobins of Maus another at the Iacobines of Tours the other at Bergerate As concerning the companye which men doe call the eleuen thousande virgins they maye well haue of them euery where And in dede they haue bene much boldned herby for to lye more largely and liberaly For besides an an hundred cartesful of bones that are at Cologne ther is scarsly no towne ī al Europa which ar not furnished therw t either ī one church or many If I shuld begin to ētreat of the comō sort of saincts I shuld enter into a forest wheras I shuld neuer find way to go out wherefore I wyll alledge certain examples in bypassing wherby one may easly iudge of al the rest At Poiters there are two churches which ar at varience for S. Hilaries bodye to wit the Chanons of hys church and the monkes of Selle The debate or proces remaineth vntill visitation be made In the mean time the Idolaters shal be constrayned to worshippe two bodyes of one man the faithfull shall leaue the body at rest where as it is not caring for it As concerning sainct Honorat his body is at Arles and also likewise at the yle of Lyrens near Antibon Sainct Giles hath one of hys bodies at Thoulouse another at a towne of Langedoc which beareth his name Sainct William is in an abbey of Langedoc named S. William of the wildernes and also in a towne of Aussoy named Ecrichen with the head apart albeit that he hath another head in the suburbe of Turen in Iulle in the abbey of the Guiliernites What shal I sai of S. Saphorin or Simphorien who is in so many places both ī whole bodies in bones likwise of s Woulfe who is at Asserre at Senes at Lion and also some did make men beleue that he was at Geneue Asmuch of sainct Ferreoll who is altogether whole at Vze in Langedoc and at Brinde in