South London . uced to theeasy performance of a journey with recitals and repetitions ofset prayers, one easily imagines that the pilgrims would nomore hesitate to steal from the altar than to commit any otheroffence against morality. On returning from Canterbury to London the pilgrimswere waylaid by roadside beggars who came out and sprinkledthem with holy water, and showed them St. Thomass shoe tokiss. In fact, what with the treasures brought home by pil-grims, presented to archbishops and kings, and sold, by THE PILGRIMS 165 pardoners and friars, the whole country was crammed withrelics ; a
South London . uced to theeasy performance of a journey with recitals and repetitions ofset prayers, one easily imagines that the pilgrims would nomore hesitate to steal from the altar than to commit any otheroffence against morality. On returning from Canterbury to London the pilgrimswere waylaid by roadside beggars who came out and sprinkledthem with holy water, and showed them St. Thomass shoe tokiss. In fact, what with the treasures brought home by pil-grims, presented to archbishops and kings, and sold, by THE PILGRIMS 165 pardoners and friars, the whole country was crammed withrelics ; at the great shrines as shown by Erasmus, there werecupboards filled with holy bones and precious rags ; but therewere too man\-: the credulity of the people had been triedtoo much and too long. Erasmus shows the profound dis-belief that he himself, if no other, entertained for the sanctityof the relics. Thomas a Becket was canonised in 1173. Fifty yearsafterwards his remains were transferred from their original.
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