on the of nature's give num a resson. progress works we read in Bouchet* of the miracles performed by St Hilary's relics well! his reputation is not great enough to rob us of our liberty to contradict. But to condemn al such stories altogether seems to me strangely overbold. The great st Augustine testifies to having seen a blind child recover its sight upon the relics of St Gervais and St Protasius at Milan, and a woman at Carthage cured of cancer by the sign of the cross made upon her by another woman, newly baptized. He also states that Hesperius, an intimate friend of his, drove out the spirits that infested his house with a little earth from our Lord's sepulchre, and that when this earth was afterwards taken to the church, a paralytic was suddenly cured by it, and that when a woman in a procession rubbed her eyes with a nosegay which she had just brushed against St Stephen's shrine, she recovered her sight, which she had lost some time before. He speaks of Annals of Aquitaine.