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of Rock-Crystal. His Chappel is adorned
■with abundance of Silver Work : He
was but Two and Twenty Years old
■when he waschosen Arch-BifliopofA/*-
lan, and Forty Six at his Death} but
made so good use of so short a time, by
his Works of Charity and Munificence,
that his Countrymen bless his Memory,
which is (till frelh among them. He was
Cannonised about a Hundred Years ago:
and indeed if this Honour were due to
any Man, I think such Publick-Ipirited
Virtues may lay a juster Claim to it, than
a sour Retreat from Mankind, a fiery
Zeal against Heterodoxies, a Set of Chi-
merical Visions, or of Whimsical Pe-
nances,which are generally the Qualifica-
tions of Roman Saints. Miracles indeed
are required of all who aspire to this Dig-
nity, because they say an Hypocrite may
imitate a Saint in all other Particulars,
and thfese they attribute in great Num-
ber, to him 1 am speaking of. His Me-
rit, and the Importunity of his Country-
men, procured his Canonization before
the ordinary time j for it is the Policy of
the Roman Church not to allow this Ho-
nour, ordinarily, ’till Fifty Years after
the Death of the Person, who is a Candi-
date for it; in which time it in y I e sop-
posed that all his Contemporaries will be
worn
of Rock-Crystal. His Chappel is adorned
■with abundance of Silver Work : He
was but Two and Twenty Years old
■when he waschosen Arch-BifliopofA/*-
lan, and Forty Six at his Death} but
made so good use of so short a time, by
his Works of Charity and Munificence,
that his Countrymen bless his Memory,
which is (till frelh among them. He was
Cannonised about a Hundred Years ago:
and indeed if this Honour were due to
any Man, I think such Publick-Ipirited
Virtues may lay a juster Claim to it, than
a sour Retreat from Mankind, a fiery
Zeal against Heterodoxies, a Set of Chi-
merical Visions, or of Whimsical Pe-
nances,which are generally the Qualifica-
tions of Roman Saints. Miracles indeed
are required of all who aspire to this Dig-
nity, because they say an Hypocrite may
imitate a Saint in all other Particulars,
and thfese they attribute in great Num-
ber, to him 1 am speaking of. His Me-
rit, and the Importunity of his Country-
men, procured his Canonization before
the ordinary time j for it is the Policy of
the Roman Church not to allow this Ho-
nour, ordinarily, ’till Fifty Years after
the Death of the Person, who is a Candi-
date for it; in which time it in y I e sop-
posed that all his Contemporaries will be
worn