is an anecdote of a crying Virgin Mary at Atocha which is made of wood, yet is seen melting into tears at the pathetic parts of a sermon, annually preached before her every Good Friday. On such occasions, the spectators cannot help sharing in the bitterness of the Virgin's sorrow. One day the preacher, having exerted all his powers of oratory with the usual effort, perceived among his crying congregation, a carpenter who looked on with a dry eye. "Impious wretch," exclaimed the sacred orator, "what, not weep! not dis❝ cover the smallest emotion, when you see the "holy Virgin herself, dissolved in tears?""Ah, reverend father," replied the carpenter, "it "was I who fixed up that statue yesterday in "its niche: in order to fasten her properly, I "was obliged to drive three great nails into her "latter end, 'twas then she would have cried if "she had been able."

EFFECTS OF PATRONAGE.

In a tract, entitled " Why poor priests have "no benefices," by Wickliffe, the English reformer, who was excommunicated by the popish council of Constance, after he was dead and buried, is the following satire on William of Wykcham, bishop of Winchester, who was his cotemporary, and is supposed to have recom

mended himself to Edward the third, by rebuilding the castle of Windsor: "and yet they (lords) wolen not present, a clerk able of kenning of God's law, but a kitchen clerk, or a penny clerk, or wise in building castles, or worldly doing, though he kenne not reade well his sauter."

THE MONKS AND CHARLES V.

The emperor, Charles V. retired to a monastry, but it was not to be expected that he who had harassed the world as much as he could, would be quiet there; he accordingly amused himself by calling up the monks at a very early hour to matins. A young one said, upon being so disturbed, "is it not enough for your majesty to "have broken in upon the repose of the universe, "but must you also break in upon that of a

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poor insignificant monk?" But so inveterate was the monarch's habit of tormenting, that being foiled here, he took to tormenting himself by flagellation which he did so successfully, that at last he was fairly whipped out of the world.

URBAN VIII.

This pope, having been, as he thought, ill treated by some considerable persons at Rome, said, "how ungrateful is this family? to oblige "them I canonized an ancestor of their's that

"did not deserve it." We believe it was this pontiff who once exclaimed, "Oh, what a pro"digy of genius is that man, he thinks exactly "as I do."

IGNATIUS LOYOLA.

Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the society of Jesuits, although this may perhaps be doubted, they appearing of much older date, since we find Numbers 9, c. 44, some of the Israelites were "of Jesue, the family of the Jesuits," put himself into the college de Montaigne, at Paris, in 1528; he there began his studies in the sixth class to learn his grammar a second time, and desired his master to set him a task, and whip him as he did the other scholars when remiss in his lesson. He was then thirty seven years old;— a pretty sight to see this venerable saint's shirt taken up among a company of boys, spectators of the flagellating comedy, we should rather call it farce.

DON ATIST CIRCUMCELLIONS.

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In the middle of the fourth century the circumcellions, who formed the strength and scandal of the Donatist party, were inflamed by a frenzy of a very extraordinary kind; and which, if it really prevailed among them in so extrava