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On the Martyrdom and Commemorations of St Hippolytus. 207 This she has not done : perhaps as a colophon to our investi- gation it may be instructive to observe what she has done. We have seen that the Laurentian Hippolytus is believed to rest at St Denis, as the other was, as late as the 9 th century, at Portus. One is at Cologne, and he too, according to Gelenius, is the Laurentian. The heads of both are at Lucca, and one drop of blood also. There are in divers places pieces of their arms. But when Cardinal Alexander Farnese (Paul III.) restored the church of St Lorenzo, Angelicus Bononiensis, a canon, made many essays to behold the bodies of St Hippolytus and his fellow- martyrs. He discovered that they lay below that potent altar for souls in pain which you pass in going from the church to the ccemetery of Cyriaca. An invisible power withheld him again and again as he descended by a ladder towards the vault : at last by prayer, by watching, and by fasting he overcame ; and he beheld the holy anatomies laid upon the ground, and a stone under every head. But last of all, in the year 1600 Clement the Eighth en- riched the Church of St Julia at Brescia with the entire body of St Hippolytus, and that of St Concordia to boot ; we may add that he furthermore bestowed there St Julia herself, with the bones of her sisters Faith, Hope and Charity, and also of Wis- dom, which is the mother of them all. Since the above pages were written I have received Dr Dol- linger's interesting work. His view is, as many of my readers are aware, that Hippolytus was a schismatical though orthodox bishop at Rome, not Bishop of Portus. On this particular sub- ject 1 hope to be able hereafter to offer a few observations to the contrary, but I have assumed above that he was Bishop of Portus, as was natural before the appearance of Dr D.'s work. He has a chapter on the different saints who bore the name of Hippoly- tus, and I have in two or three places inserted notes from his work on points of which I was previously ignorant. His remarks on the Antiochian presbyter are most critical and to me conclu- sive. But there are two other lines of investigation which I had examined and abandoned, persuaded that no real result was ob- tainable from them. Dr Dollinger has however found them con- venient for his particular purpose, and therefore it will be well