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probable tbat those of Gamaliel, from their connexion with so remarkable a legend, were regarded with much veneration. Ijucian, as it is stated, wrote the relation of this miraculous discovery, and iiis narrative was trans- lated into Latin by his contemporary, the Spanish priest, Avitus, then at Jerusalem, the friend of St. Jerome. It may be found in the Edition of the Works of St. Augustine, published by the Benedictines, and it has been given by Baronius.® The "caput auripictum," with jewels around the shoulders, was doubt- less one of those singular reliquaries, in form of busts, of life-size, wherein the crania of holy persons are preserved, as seen at Cologne, and in many continental churches." A curious example, brought from Italy, was placed in the Museum formed during the Meeting of tlie Institute at Salisbury. A. W.

• Bede records the discovery of these in like manner (Voyage de denxBenedic-

reliques, and cites the narration of Lucian. tins, t. i. p. 92), and a very remarkable See Bede, Chronicon de sex yEtatibns, example existing in Switzerland is fij;ured under the year 42(>. in the valuaMe History of Sacred Archi- " Three such reliquaries formerly ex- teetnre in the dioceses of Geneva, Lau- isted at St. Denis, and are represented in s;inne and Sion, by Blavignac, recently Felil'ien's History of the Abbey ; tlie published. head of St. Loup at Troyes was j)reserved