CHAPTER XXIX.

RELICS IN GENERAL AND THE IRON CROWN OF LOMBARDY IN PARTICULAR.

Mark Twain's Animadversions.--The Palladium of Venice.--The Gift of Leo XIII. to London.--The Blood of St. Januarius.--The House of the Virgin at Loretto.--The Wonder-Working Bones of St. Anne in Canada.--The Iron Crown of Lombardy.--A Winter Trip to Monza.--The Treasury of the Cathedral.--The Chapel of the Great Relic.--Why the Crown is so Sacred.--How it was used by Charlemagne and Napoleon.--Rome Caps the Climax.--Do American Roman Catholics Believe in the Relics? 259