The Same Is Worshipped Under The Name Of St. Suaire,
From The Latin Word Sudarium.
This same handkerchief is said to
have had three folds, on every one of which was the impression:
One of these remains at Jerusalem, a second was brought to Rome,
and a third was conveyed to Spain. Baronius says, there is a very
antient history of the
sancta facies in the Vatican. Tillemont, however, looks upon the
whole as a fable. Some suppose Veronica to be the same with St.
Haemorrhoissa, the patroness of those who are afflicted with the
piles, who make their joint invocations to her and St. Fiacre,
the son of a Scotch king, who lived and died a hermit in France.
The troops of Henry V. of England are said to have pillaged the
chapel of this Highland saint; who, in revenge, assisted his
countrymen, in the French service, to defeat the English at
Bauge, and afterwards afflicted Henry with the piles, of which he
died. This prince complained, that he was not only plagued by the
living Scots, but even persecuted by those who were dead.
I know not whether I may be allowed to compare the Romish
religion to comedy, and Calvinism to tragedy. The first amuses
the senses, and excites ideas of mirth and good-humour; the
other, like tragedy, deals in the passions of terror and pity.
Step into a conventicle of dissenters, you will, ten to one, hear
the minister holding forth upon the sufferings of Christ, or the
torments of hell, and see many marks of religious horror in the
faces of the hearers.
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