Among the most precious of the relics were a stone from the Holy Sepulchre, part of the crown of thorns, (they have a whole one at Notre Dame,) a fragment of the purple robe worn by the Saviour, a nail from the Cross, and a picture of the Virgin and Child painted by the veritable hand of St.Luke.

This is the second of St.Luke's Virgins we have seen.

Once a year all these holy relics are carried in procession through the streets of Milan.
I like to revel in the dryest details of the great cathedral.

The building is five hundred feet long by one hundred and eighty wide, and the principal steeple is in the neighborhood of four hundred feet high.
It has 7,148 marble statues, and will have upwards of three thousand more when it is finished.

In addition it has one thousand five hundred bas-reliefs.