Note 25 — Chapter V · Infibulation, Muzzling, and other Curious Practices.

These interesting historical facts in relation to the holy prepuce were published in the Journal l’Excommunier in January of 1870, when the writer was in France. They were contributed by A. S. Morin, of Miron, a learned historiographer and antiquary. Europe has not recovered from its love of the supernatural that it had so strongly in the middle ages. The blood of St. Gennaro still liquefies once a year, and many churches still claim to possess the identical winding sheet that served our Lord prior to his resurrection, as well as more than one church has the holy cloth that St. Veronica used on the way to Calvary, which has an impression of the face of the Saviour.