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parture of men from the true Catholic faith , you must allow me to rank the opinion , that the age
of miracles has gone by : and 1 doubt not but that all your . wwprejudiced readers will agree with me on this point before ihey have proceeded through many sentences of my Letter . . .
We have been informed that on a late solemn occasion , when a certain august personage visited the mansions of the mouldering dead , chance directed his steps to the spot where lay deposited , in
oblivious seclusion , the body of that holy and sainted martyr of blessed memory , King Charles the First * No remarkable appearance is stated to have distinguished his coffin from the others which
tenanted the same chamber , and it was known only by the superscription : —but after removing the lid , such a wonder occurred , as ought to reduce to silence the tongue of every cavilling sceptic;—for when the physician in attendance , with
all due reverence , raised the head of the royal sufferer , which his rebellious subjects had so wickedly severed from his body a drop of his precious blood , which obstinate heretics might have thought the lapse of two centuries would have hardened into indissoluble
crust , or amalgamated with its parent dust , dropped upon the hand that held > the sacred relic ! I do not know how many witnesses there were to this miracle , or whether there were any besides the
physician and his royal master ; but the fact was regularly an . nounced in the public prints , and recorded with a plainness and simplicity , that can leave no doubt of its truth . Now , Sir , the miracle being thus proved , what I would
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next observe is , that we must not suppose such wonders are ever performed , in Vdin ; and from the
analogy furnished rue by the well » authenticated histories of the holy martyrs and confessors of former times which have been detailed by such able hands as Baronius , William of Malmsbury ^ Cressy and others , of equal repute ,.
wherein the merits f the saints ^ while -living , ' a ^ od .. the virtues of their remains after their death , are faithfully set forth , 1 am in * duced to hope , that some happy
consequences will appear to have been effected on the bystanders ^ and particularly on one of them , by this wonderful event , and through the efficacy of the re-liquified blood of Saint Charles . No
authorised account of any such beneficial effects has , indeed , been yet given to the public , but I take it for granted , we shall in due time be favoured with all the edifying particulars .
In the mean while , Sir , that those of your readers who may not be conversant in such matters , may know what kind of blessings
they may reasonably expect from an occurrence so wonderful , I shall insert here an account of the discovery of the remains of another royal saint , though not a martyr , accompanied by a statement of
the astonishing , effects that were produced on the occasion . The history relates to St . Milburg , one of the " lillies of pure virginity / ' as Baronius beautifully calls them , " which adorned the Saxon
churches in the seventh century , " She wi ' s the eldest daughter of Merwald , King of Mercia , and abbess of a convent at Wenlock , in Shropshire , which she had herself founded . Though she
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S 62 Miraculous Cures by tie Corpse of St . Mtlfyurg .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/6/
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