Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

Tavia, Milan, &c.
(Air Saviour coming in by way of Epi/ode)
is finely cut in Marble by Andrew Biffy.
This Church is very Rich in Relicks,
which run up as high as Daniel, Jonas
and Abraham. Among the rest they ihow
a Fragment of our Countryman Becket,
as indeed there are very few Treasuries
of Relicks in Italy that have not a Tooth
or a Bone of this Saint. It would be end-
less to count up the Riches of Silver,
Gold, and Precious Stones, that are
amass’d together in this and several other
Churches of Milan. I was told, that in
Milan there are Sixty Convents of Wo-
men, Eighty of Men, and Two Hun-
dred Churches. At the Celeftines is a
Pifture in Fresco of the Marriage of
Cana, very much esteem’d ; but the
Painter, whether designedly or nor, has
put Six Fingers to the Hand of one of
the Figures: They show the Gates of
a Church that St. Ambrofe ihut against
the Emperor Theodojius, as thinking him
unfit to assist at Divine Service, ’till he
had done some extraordinary Penance
for his barbarous Massacring the Inha-
bitants of TheJJalonica. That Emperor
was however io far from being displeas’d
With the Behaviour of the Saint, that
at his Death he committed to him the
Education of his Children, Several have
C pick’d