3 A translation of this letter was published in the _Allgemeine Zeitung_ of Augsburg.
4 Thus St Anthony of Padua restores, like Mercury, stolen property; St Hubert, like Diana, is the patron of sportsmen; St Cosmas, like Esculapius, that of physicians, &c. In fact, almost every profession and trade, as well as every place, have their especial patron saint, who, like the tutelary divinity of the Pagans, receives particular honours from his or her _protégés_.
6 "Quod legentibus Scriptum, hoc et idiotis, præstat pictura, quia in ipsa ignorantes vident quid sequi debeant, in ipsas legunt qui litteras nesciunt," says St Gregory.--_Maury, Essai sur les Legendes_, &c., p. 104.
7 "Quoniam talis memoria quæ imaginibus fovetur, non venit es cordis amore, sed ex visionis necessitate."--_Opus illustrissimi Caroli magni contra Synodum pro adorandis imaginibus_, p. 480, (in 18--1549),--a work of which I shall have an opportunity more amply to speak.
8 See his chapter on the "Ill Effects of Solitude on the Imagination"--English translation.
10 "Fleury Histoire Eccles.," lib. xxi. chap. 15.
11 The author of this sketch says himself, in a note, "Yet this idolatry is far from having entirely disappeared. Pilgrimages, and a devotion to certain images, but particularly to that of the Virgin, are still continuing," &c. This was said in 1843. I wonder what he will say now, when this idolatry is reappearing, even in those parts of Europe where the Calvinists had, according to his expression, struck at its very root.
12 "Essai sur les Legendes Pieuses du Moyen Age," par Alfred Maury, pp. 111, _et seq._
13 "Chateaubriand Etudes Historiques," vol. ii. p. 101.
14 "Histoire de la Destruction du Paganisme dans l'Empire d'Orient," par M. Chastel, Paris, 1850, p. 342 _et seq._
15 "Histoire de la Destruction du Paganisme en Occident," par A. Beugnot, Member of the French Institute, Paris, 1835, 8vo, 2 vols.
_ 16 Translator's Note._--Was not the introduction of pagan rites into the church the indirect way to idolatry alluded to in the text?
_ 17 Author's Note._--The festivals of the martyrs was a very large concession made to the old manners, because all that took place daring those days was not very edifying.