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Having arrived in the little square where the Church of the Corpus Domini now stands, the mule refused to go…

Date of account: English edition published 1872
Source: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)
Reference: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2) · selected passage 130
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-25

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Having arrived in the little square where the Church of the Corpus Domini now stands, the mule refused to go any farther; and out of a cup, which was among the sacred objects stolen, a wafer containing the body of our Saviour rose into the air

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Having arrived in the little square where the Church of the _Corpus Domini_ now stands, the mule refused to go any farther; and out of a cup, which was among the sacred objects stolen, a wafer containing the body of our Saviour rose into the air. Nor would it come down again until the bishop came forth, and, holding the cup high in the air, besought the wafer to come back into it; which having been miraculously accomplished, the Church of the _Corpus Domini_ was erected on the spot, from which starts and to which returns the solemn procession which takes place annually at Turin on the festival of _Corpus Domini_, and in which, about twenty years ago, the princes and great dignitaries of the state, with the professors of the university, used to take part in all the pomp of mediæval ceremony and costume.--In Persia the festival of asses is celebrated at the approach of spring; the ass personifying here the end of the winter season.

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