Note 066 This multiplication is asserted by Paulinus (Epist. xxxvi.; see Dupin. Bibliot. Eccles. tom. iii. p. 149), who seems to have improved a rhetorical flourish of Cyril into a real fact. The same super-natural privilege must have been communicated to the Virgin's milk (Erasmi Opera, tom. i. p. 778, Lugd. Batav. 1703, in Colloq. de Peregrinat. Riligionis ergo), saints' heads, etc., and other relics, which are repeated in so many different churches.

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