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The Voyage

spent with old age; and therefore Pope Alexander the VII, caused it to be set up here and enchased curiously, to preserve it. I once saw it near at hand, being exposed to publick view in the middle of the Church, upon the Feast day of S. Peters Chair in Rome. In an other Chappel, is the Crucifix made three hundred years ago by rare Pietro Gavalino In an other Chappel, you see cut in white marble the history of S. Leo's meeting Attila out of Rome, and his deturning him from coming any nearer to the City.

The Cheif Relicks.As for the Relicks and bodies of Saints which are in this Church, besides those mentioned already, there are the bodies of SS. Simon and Inde, of S. Petronilla, of SS. Processus and Martinianus, of ten first Popes after S. Peter; with a world of other precious Relicks kept in the Sacristy.

Some tombes.As for the Tombes which are in this Church above ground, they are these. That of Sixtus IV. of Paulus III.; of Vrban the VIII.; of Leo the XI, of Innocent the VIII; of

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