Note 21 — VII. THE MARK OF CAIN.
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The present grotto was built in 1879. The old one, which I saw the year before, had on its ceiling faint frescoes of the sun, moon, and stars—recalling the legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus who turned their backs on Divus Cæsar, saying they would worship him alone who made the sun, moon, and stars. The angel Gabriel, who led them into Paradise, guided them mythologically to Touraine, of old called “the Paradise of France.”