Calvin tours the shrines of Europe and counts what they claim to hold: enough fragments of the true cross to load a ship, multiple bodies of the same saint, vessels of the Virgin’s milk. Count Valerian Krasinski’s long introductory dissertation traces the worship of relics and images back to the church’s compromises with paganism.
Sharp Reformation polemic, openly hostile to Roman Catholic practice, and still entertaining for its sheer catalogue of absurdities. Download the free EPUB.