They raised his body once a year; and the day on which this ceremony was performed, which was called the day of his translation, was a general holiday: every fiftieth year there was celebrated a jubilee to his honor, which lasted fifteen days: plenary indulgences were then granted to all that visited his tomb; and a hundred thousand pilgrims have been registered at a time in Canterbury.

The devotion towards him had quite effaced in that place the adoration of the Deity; nay, even that of the Virgin.

At God's altar, for instance, there were offered in one year three pounds two shillings and sixpence; at the Virgin's, sixty-three pounds five shillings and sixpence; at St.Thomas's, eight hundred and thirty-two pounds twelve shillings and threepence.

But next year the disproportion was still greater; there was not a penny offered at God's altar; the Virgin's gained only four pounds one shilling and eight pence; but St.Thomas had got for his share nine hundred and fifty-four pounds six shillings and threepence.[*] Lewis VII.

of France had made a pilgrimage to this miraculous tomb, and had bestowed on the shrine a jewel, esteemed the richest in Christendom.