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20 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST
loved, and he followed her afterwards on all her
journeys.
She was never at rest and travelled continually,
and in that way the image was carried about over the
whole world.
And wherever the image came, the power of
Christ seemed to be diminished without any one
rightly understanding why. For nothing could
look more impotent than that poor image of elm
wood, dressed out in brass rings and glass beads.
When the rich Englishwoman who had first owned
the image was dead, he came as an inheritance to
another rich Englishwoman, who also travelled
continually, and from her to a third.
Once, and it was still in the time of the first
Englishwoman, the image came to Paris.
As he passed through the great city there was
an insurrection. Crowds rushed wildly screaming
through the streets and cried for bread. They
plundered the shops and threw stones at the houses
of the rich. Troops were called out against them,
and then they tore up the stones of the street,
dragged together carriages and furniture, and built
barricades.
As the rich Englishwoman came driving in her
great travelling-carriage, the mass of people rushed
towards it, forced her to leave it, and dragged the
carriage up to one of the barricades.
When they tried to roll the carriage up among all
the thousand things of which the barricade
consisted, one of the big trunks fell to the ground.
The cover sprang open, and among other things out
rolled the rejected Christ image.
The people threw themselves upon him to plunder,
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