The Church, ever mindful of prophecy, undertook to keep them alive and miserable.

She made enclosures for them, as we do in our _Jardin des Plantes_ for rare animals.

At first they were folded in the valley of Egeria, then they were penned in the Trastevere, and finally cribbed in the Ghetto.

In the daytime they were allowed to go about the city, that the people might see what a dirty, degraded being a man is when he does not happen to be a Christian; but when night came they were put under lock and key.

The Ghetto used to close just as the Faithful were on their way to damnation at the theatre.
On the occasion of certain solemnities the Municipal Council of Rome amused the populace with _Jew races_.
When modern philosophy had somewhat softened Catholic manners, horses were substituted for Jews.