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20 the miracles of antichrist
and thus the image was carried about through the
whole world. And wherever the image came it
seemed as though Christ’s dominion decreased
without anyone rightly understanding why. For
noth-ing appeared more powerless than this poor image
of elm arrayed in glass beads and brass rings.
When the rich English lady who first owned the
image was dead it came as heirloom to another rich
English lady, who also traveled continually, and
from this one to a third.
Once, and that was while the first English lady
still lived, the image came to Paris.
When it entered the great city a rebellion was in
progress. Crowds of people marched wildly
shrieking through the streets, crying for bread. They
plundered the shops and threw stones at the palaces
of the rich. The troops advanced against them,
whereupon they tore up the pavement, piled vehicles
and household goods into heaps and built
themselves barricades.
Now when the rich English lady came riding in
her great coach, the multitude rushed upon it,
compelled her to leave it, and dragged it forward to one
of the barricades.
In trying to roll the carriage up among the
thousand things forming the barricade, one of the large
trunks fell to the ground. The cover burst open,
and among other things which rolled out, was also
the ejected image of Christ.
The people threw themselves upon it for the
purpose of plundering it, but soon discovering that all
his finery was false and entirely worthless, they began
to laugh and scoff at it.
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