A Treatise on Relics - John Calvin (1870) - Project Gutenburg © Godric Godricson |
"As every, even the smallest Catholic church has a heap of bones and other small rubbish, what would it be if all those things which are contained in two or three thousand bishoprics, twenty or thirty thousand abbeys, more than forty thousand convents, and so many parish churches and chapels, were collected into one mass? The best thing would be not merely to name, but to visit them. "