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The Cathedral

CHAPTER XV
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His body was subsequently carried to Spain, and his remains performed such miracles as he had never wrought in his lifetime.
"Indeed," reflected Durtal, "we have singularly little information with regard to the Apostles.

They appear, for the most part, only incidentally in the Gospels; and excepting a few--Saint Peter, Saint John, and Saint Paul--whose figures are more or less definite, they float past like shades, lost, veiled as it were, in the halo of glory shed about Him by Jesus Christ.

And after His death they vanish into thin air, and their very existence is only sketched in a few vague legends.
"Take Saint Thomas, the Treasure of God, as Saint Bridget calls him: where was he born?
We are not told.

What were the circumstances and reasons of his call?
None knows.

In what lands did he preach the new faith?
Here disputes begin.


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