Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sented by the third Alfonso in the year of grace 874,1 and the hideous fourteenth-century reliquary shaped to represent the head of James Alfeo, and containing (as it is believed) this very relic (PI. viii.). I make a reservation here, because the Chapterhave forbidden the reliquary to be opened. In either case, whether the head be there or not, heads of the same apostle are affirmed to be at Chartres, Toulouse, and other places. Similarly, discussing these Hydra-headed beings of the Bible and the hagiology, Villa-amil y Castro (El Tesoro de la Catedral de Santiago, published in the Museo Espaiiol de Antigiiedades) recalls to us the ten authenticated and indubitable mazzards of Saint John the Baptist. 1 To lend my censures further cogency, I leave this statement as I set it down some weeks ago; since when, on picking up a Spanish newspaper, I read the following telegram: ? theft In Santiago Cathedral santiago, May th, 1906 (9.15 p.m.).
This morning, when the canon in charge of the Chapel of the Relics unlocked the door, he was surprised to observe that some of these were lying in confusion on the floor. Fearing that a theft had been committed, he sent for the dean and others of the clergy, who had examination made, and found the following objects to be missing: ? UA gold cross, presented by King Alfonso the Great, when he attended the consecration of this temple in the year 874. Another cross, of silver, dating from the fifteenth century?a present from Archbishop Spinola.
An aureole of the fifteenth century, studded with precious stones belonging to a statuette of the apostle Santiago.
The authorities were summoned and at once began their search.
They find that two of the thick iron bars of the skylight in the ceiling of the cloister have been…
