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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

deceiued as in darknes Yf that Iugglers shoulde haue had so blynded our eyes that we shoulde thynke that there was syxe yet shoulde we bee thus mynded for to feare to be abused and deceyued But herein is no subteltie for question is onely made wheather we wyl beleue that Sainct Iohns fynger is at Flourence and that thei be also other where ī fiue places as at Lyons at Burges and other places For to speake more brieflye whether we will beleue that sixe fingers are but one and that one finger only is sixe I speake but onely of that which is come to my knowledge I dout not but if that one shoulde enquire more diligentlye there shoulde be at the least founde one half dousen more in other places And that their shuld not be found yet other peeces which woulde amounte to the bignes of a bulles head yea besides those which I haue named But for feare of leauing any thyng behind thei haue likewise bosted to haue the ashes wherof one part is at Gines the other part at Rome in S. Iohn of Latrans church Nowe we haue sene that the most part was caste into the aire yet neuerthelesse they let not to haue as they saye a great part and chiefely they of Genes There remayneth nowe after the bodye the other appertenances as one of his showes which is at the charter house of Paris the whiche was stolne aboute twelue or thyrtyne yeres ago but there was a newe one founde incontinently And in dede vntyll showmakers science fayle they wyll neuer wante suche reliques At Rome at sainct Iohn of Latrans they boste to haue his iacketh whereof no mencion is made in the gospell except because it is there spoken that he was clothed with camelles heare they woulde chaunge a gowne into a iacket There lykewise they saye they haue the Aultar whereon he praied in the Desarte as yf in those dayes they dyd vse to make Aultars for euery purpose and in euery place It is meruayll they make them not beleue that he songe Masse In Auignon is the sworde wherwith he was beheaded And at Aix in Dutchlande is the lynnen clothe that was spreadde vnder hym I woulde gladly know how the hangman was so gracious and fauourable as for to tapistrie the pauement of the prison when he would put him to death Is not this a folish inuencion But yet how is either the one or the other com to their hands do you thinke it to be likely that he which put him to death whether he were a souldiour or a hangman woulde haue geuen away the linnen cloth and his sworde for to make reliques of them Seing they woulde make suche a furniture of all peeces they haue fayled in leauing forgettyng Herodias knife wherwith she strake him vpon the eye lidde Likewise all the bloud that was spylt and also his sepulchre But I maye well erre herein for I know not if all those baggages be other where els It is nowe requisite that the Apostles shoulde haue their course but because the multitude myghte engender confusion if I shoulde place them all together we wyll first speake of sainct Peter and sainct Paule then after we wyll speake of the others Theyr bodyes are at Rome one halfe in sainct Peters Churche and the other halfe at sainct Paules Church And they saye that sainct Siluester did parte them for to distribute them in such equall porcions Their two heades are at Rome at Sainct Iohn of Latrans although in the same churche there is one of sayncte Peters teeth alone by it selfe Besydes al thys they doe not lette to haue euerye where theyr bones As at Poiters they haue the chawe bone with the beard At Trier diuers bones bothe of the one and of the other At Argenton in Bery one of saint Paules shoulders But when shoulde this be ended For in euerye place wheare there is a Churche that dothe beare theyr names there are also of their reliques If one doe aske what relikes Let them remember the brayne of sainct Peter whereof I haue spoken whyche was on the greate Aultar of thys towne For euen as that was founde to be a marble stone so shall men finde many horse bones or dogge bones that they do attribute to these two apostles With the body there foloweth the other appertenaunce At sainct Sauiours in Spaine they haue one of sainct Peters slippers but of the fashion and the thing whereof it is made I can make no mencion but it is to be supposed that it is such like marchandise as that which is at Poiters The whiche are made of Satynne brodered wyth golde Beholde howe braue they do make him after his death for to recompense him of the pouertie wherein he liued durynge his lyfe tyme. Because the bishops in these dayes are so trim when thei decke them with their pontifical robes It semeth to them that one shuld abrogate the apostles dignitie yf he did not make them as trim for painters maye well counterfaite them at their pleasure gyldyng and adorning them from the head to the fete and afterward put vpon them the names of Peter and Paule but we knowe what their estate was whilest thei lyued in this world and that they had no other then poore mennes clothing There is also at Rome the pōtificall chere of sainct Peter with his coope As if in those dayes the bishops had had thrones for to sytte in their office was to teache councell and exhorte bothe publiklye and peculierly and to shewe good example of true humilitie to their flocke and not to make ydolles as those that are now a dayes do As cōcerning his cope it was not yet in those dayes the fashion or maner so to disguyse them selues for they did not playe the kynde of Maskers in the Churche as they do at this present So that for to proue that saynct Peter had a cope it is fyrst requisite that they shoulde declare S. Peter to be a Iugler as our priestes nowe a dayes doe semyng to serue God It is trewe that they maye well haue geuen him a cope when thei assigned him an aulter But as lykelye is the one as the other Men do knowe what Masses were songe at that tyme. The Apostles dyd celebrate simplye in their tyme the supper of our Lorde to the which it is not nedefull to haue an aulter They did not knowe yet at that tyme what beast this Masse was Neyther was it knowen longe tyme after One maye euidentlye see then that when they inuented their reliques they neuer douted that euer they should haue any speakers there against seyng they haue ben bolde to lye so impudently wantonly Moreouer as touching this aulter they agre not among them selues For they of Rome affirme that they haue it and thei of Pise likewise say thei haue it shewing it also in theyr subburbes that stande towardes the sea For to make theyr profit of all they haue not forgotten the sworde wherewith Maulchus eare

at Dise When they were not in vsage at the least such as we haue it now in our time for in steade of sixe and ace and other poynctes they had certayne markes which thei named by theyr names as Venus or dogge Now let thē that wyll go kisse the reliques in credite of so loude playne and manifest lyers It is time to entreat of the head shete wherein they haue yet more plainly shewed as wel their impudencie as their folyshenes for besides the heade shete of the veronicque which is shewed at Rome in Sainct Peters church and the kercher that the virgyn Mary as they say put about the priuy membres of our Lord which is shewed at Sainct Iohn of Latrans The whiche is also at the Augustines of Carcossone Item the cloth that was put vpon his head in the sepulchre whiche likewise is shewed there There are halfe a dousen townes at the leaste that doe boaste to haue whole wyndynge shete of the sepulchre As Nice it was transported from Chamberie thither Item Aix in Dutchlande Item at Traicte Item at Besanson Item at Cadoin in Limosine Item a towne of Lorraigne standyng vpon the porte of Assois Besides the peces that are disparsed from one side to another As at Sainct Sauiours in Spaine and at the Augustins of Albie I leaue oute yet a whole windyng shete which is at Rome in a monestarie of women because that the Pope dyd forbyde to shew it solemnlye I praye you hath not the worlde bene merueylouslye enraged to trot a hundred or sixe score legues longe wyth greate charges and great paynes for to see a cloute of the which they coulde haue no certentie but rather wer constrayned to dout thereof for whosouer estemeth or iudgeth the windyng shete to be in one certaine place he maketh all the others false which boste that they haue it As for example he that beleueth that the cloth of Chamberie is the right windynge shete he condemneth those of Besanson of Aix of Cadoin of Trier and of Rome as lyers and as them that wickedly make the people commit Idolatrye in deceyuyng them and making them beleue that a prophane cloth is the winding shete wherein theyr redemer was wrapt Let vs nowe come to the gospell for it wer but a smal matter for them to accuse one another of a lye but the holy ghost speakynge agaynst all doeth confounde them altogether aswell one as another Fyrst of all it is much meruaile that the Euangelistes make no mencion of this portrature that touched the face of IESVS CHRIST with a kercher seing they make mencion of all the women that did accompany hym to the crosse It was a right notable thyng and worthy to be regestred that the face of Iesus Christ should be miraculouslye imprinted in a lynnen clothe contrarywyse it semeth that it is but a matter of small importance to saye that certayne women dyd accompanye Iesus Christ to the crosse without there had chaunsed some miracle to them How is it then that the Euangelistes rehearse smale thynges and of lytle importance holdyng their peece and makynge no mencion of principall thinges Truly if such a miracle had bene done as some make men to beleue we muste needes accuse the holye ghost of forgetfulnesse or lacke of discretion that he could not chuse prudently that which was moste expedient for to be reported Thus much be spoken touchyng the veronicque shete to the end that men might know what an euident and manifest lye it is which they wold persuade the simple in Moreouer concerning the windyng shete in which the body was wrapped I aske them a like question the Euengelestes recite diligently the miracles that were done at the death of Iesus Christ and do leaue nothinge out that appertaineth to the historie howe is it then that thys escaped them that they speake neuer a worde of so excellent a miracle To wit that the printe of the body of our Lord Iesus dyd remaine in the lynnen cloth wherein he was buried This if it had bene so was as worthy to be spoken of as manye other things Yea the holy Euangelist sainct Iohn declareth howe that Sainct Peter beyng entred into the sepulchre saw the linnen clothes of the sepulchre the one of one side the other on the other syde but that there was anye miraculous portrature he maketh no mencion And it is not to be thought or presumed if there had ben any such matter that he wold haue suppressed such a worke of God There is yet another dout to be obiected that is that the Euangelists make no mencion that any of the disciples or of the faythfull women did cary awaye the shetes wherof the question is out of the scripture but rather they giue vs to vnderstand that they left them there although they playnely expresse not the same Nowe the sepulchre was kept with the souldiours Who afterwardes had the shete in their owne power Is it to be supposed or thought that they gaue it some faithfull man or woman for to make reliques of Seinge the Pharises had corrupted them for to make them forsweare them selues saying that the disciples had stolne the bodye I leaue to reproue them of falsehode euen by the very sight of the pictures that they shew For it is easie to be sene that they were payntinges made by mans hande And I can not merueyll ynough fyrst howe they were such blockheads that they had no better fetch for to deceyue and much more how the worlde hath bene so doltishe for to suffer it selfe to be blinded in such sort that it could not see so euident a thyng Moreouer they haue well declared that they had the painter at commaundement For when one wyndyng shete was burned there was alwayes another found the next daye They woulde notwithstandynge saye that it was the selfe same that it was before the which miraculouslye was saued from the fyre but the pryntyng was so freshe that the lye auayled nothyng if there had bene eies for to haue sene and to behold But yet to make an ende wyth There is a paremptorye reason by the which they are all together conuinced of their impudencye In all places where as they saye they haue the holye winding shete thei showe a greate shete whiche did conuer all the body with the head and their in is to be sene the printe of a body togeather al in one pece Nowe the Euangelyste S. Iohn saithe that Iesus Christ was buried accordinge to the maner of the Iewes And what their maner was one maye not onely vnderstande it by the custume that the Iewes obserue yeat to this daye but also by their bookes whiche sufficiently declare the auncient custume that is to binde the body a parte euen to the shoulders after to wrappe the heade in a kerchere bindinge it at the foure corners The which also the Euangeliste expresseth whan he sayethe that sainct Petter sawe the linnen clothes of one side wherein the body hade bene

wraped and of an other side the kercher whiche was put vpon the heade for such is the signification of this word Suaire to take it for an hankerchere or couercheffe and not for a greate shete that serueth to wrape the body in For to conclud briefly Ether the Euangeliste sainct Iohn must be a lyer or els all they that boste them selues to haue the winding shete must be conuicted of falshode and it must euidentlye haue apered that they haue deaceaued the poore people by a moste extreme impudency it should neuer be done if I wold intreate perticulerly al the mockeries that they vse one dothe showe at Rome at saincte Iohn of Latran the rede that was put by mocking in Iesus Christes hand in stead of a septer when he was beaten in Pylates howse Lykewyse at the churche of the crosse is showen the sponge wher the gall and myrrhe was put in his mouthe I praye you where is it that thei recouered them It was the Infidelses that hade them in their handes dyde they delyuer them thinke we to the Apostles to make reliques of them Or dide they thē selues looke them vp for to preserue them for the time to come What sacreledge is this so to abuse the name of Iesus Christ for to cloke and couer fables so leude lye forged Asmuche is of the pence that Iudas receued for betraying of our lorde It is sayde in the Gospell that he dyd render them agayne in the sinagoge of the pharises and that after they bowght afylde therew t for to burye the strangers Who is it that hathe gotten those pence from the merchantes Handes If one should say that it was the desciples that were to folyshe Therfore a better coulor must be sought to cloke the matter If on saye that it was done longe tyme after yet that were lesse apparente forsomuche as the mony myght haue passed throughe many mens handes They must neades showe them that either the marchante that solde his possession to the pharises for to make a buriynge place did it for to buye the pence to make reliques of them or otherwyse that he sold them againe to the faithefull Now hereof their was neuer newes in the auncient Churche It is a like glose of the stayres of Pilates Iudgement halle whiche are at S. Iohn of latran at Rome with holes where they say dropes of blood fell from the body of our lorde Iesus Christ Item in the same place in the Church of sainct Praxede the piller wherto he was bounde when he was scourged and in the churche of the holy crosse three others rounde about the which he was lead when he went to his death I knowe not where they haue dreamed on all these pellers so is it that they haue imagened them of their owne fantesyes for in the holle historye of the Gospell we reade nothing of them It is sayde that Iesus Christe was whipped but that he was bonde to a peller that is of their glose One maye easely see then that they haue gone about nothing els but to heape as it were a seae full of lyes Wherin they haue geuen them selues suche lybertye that they haue not bene ashamed to make a relique of the asses taile whereon our lord Iesus rode for it is to be showne at Genes but we haue no more cause to be astonishede at their iupudencie then at the folishenesse stupidite of the world who hath receiued wyth great deuotion such a delusion Some man might obiecte heare that it is not like that they doe showe all the Reliques which we haue already named autentiklye but that they cā also by by proue frō whense they come out of whose handes they haue receaued them To this I coulde answere in one worde that in so euident lyes it is not possible to pretende any aparances of trewthe For howe so euer they arme them selues with the name of Constantine or of King Louis or of any pope all this aualith nothinge for to approue that Iesus Christ was nayled with fourtene nayles or that a hole hedge was consumed to make hys croune of thornes with or that one Speare blade shuld haue ingendrede since thre others or that his cotte shuld be multiplied into thre and haue chaunged fashion for to become a pristes coope or that of on onelye windinge shete their should haue spronge a broode as it were the Chikennes of one Henne that IESVS CHRIST was buryed cleane contraye to the maner that the Ghospell mencyoneth If I shoulde showe a Lumpe of leade and shoulde saye This Lumpe of Golde was geuen me by such a prince I shoulde be estemed for a mad foole and for my saying the leade wold not change his colour nor his nature for to be changed into golde So when they say to vs behold what Godfrey of Bullon did sende hether after he had conquered the countrey of Iude and that reason doth declare vnto vs that it is but a lye shoulde we suffer our selues to be abused wyth the wordes and not beholde that whyche we see before our eyes But yet to th ende that we may knowe howe sure it is to truste to all that they aledge for the approbation of their reliques it is to be noted that the principall Relyques and the moste notable that be at Rome were brought thither as they saye by Tytus and Vaspasian Trewlye it is as playne a mockedge as if one shoulde saye that the Turke wente to Ierusalem for to seeke the holye Crosse of IESVS CHRIST to the ende to place it at Constantinnople Vaspasian before he was chosen Emperour conquered and destroyed part of Iude afterwardes when he came to the Empyre he lefte hys sonne Titus to be hys Leutenant who afterwards won the citie of Ierusalem Nowe these were heathen who cared or set as muche by Iesus Christe as by him that neuer had bene So one may iudge whether they durst not as frely lye in alledgyng Godfrey of Bullon or sainct Louys as they haue alledged Vaspasien Furthermore let it be considered what iudgement as well the kyng had whome they call sainct Louys as all other such like had He had in dede such as it was a deuotion zeale for to augment christendome but if one shoulde haue shewed them goates dunge and haue saide to them beholde here be our Ladyes Beades they woulde without any agayne saying haue worshipped them or woulde haue brought them hyther in their shippes for to haue set them vp honorably in som place and ī very dede they haue consumed their bodies their goods a great part of the substaunce of their countrey for to brīg ouer an heape of smal trifles wherewith they were brought in a fooles Paradise thinkinge that they were the moste precious Iewels in the worlde But yet to geue more ample vnderstandynge of this matter it is to be noted that in all Grecia and the lesse Asia and Mauritania whyche we nowe commonly call the countrey of Iude they shew