The school of the Eucharist established upon the miraculous respects and acknowledgments, which beasts, birds, and insects, upon several occasions, have rendred to the Holy Sacrament of the altar : whence Catholicks may increase in devotion towards this divine mystery, and hereticks find there their confusion / by F. Toussain Bridoul ... ; printed in French at Lille, 1672, and now made English, and published ; with a preface concerning the testimony of miracles.

Dragons revenge the injuries done to the H. Eucharist.

CErtain Inhabitants of a Town in Italy having received the Commu∣nion on an Easter-day, through great irreverence spent the rest of the day in sports and lascivious dancings. The Divine vengeance followed them quickly after. For among their punishments God sent a Deluge of Water upon their Land, which overwhelmed all their Harvest of Corn, and drowned all their Meadows; from whence came forth Dragons that encumbred their ways when they were dryed, so that none could walk into the Field without fear of his Life. The Country lying wholly de∣solate, a Holy person, moved with compassion, prayed to God earnest∣ly, to turn away his wrath, or at least to tell him the cause of it. Upon this an Angel appeared to him, and asked him this Question, If any person should be so daring, as to lay hands upon the Emperours Son, and by wicked Treachery and Treason cast him into a dark and stinking Dungeon, what punishment would this insolent person deserve? The good man answered, That he deserved to be put to death and quarter∣ed: But, added the Angel, What if another should take the Pix, in which the H. Host is kept, and before a great number of people, should cast it into a sink full of filth and nastiness, what punishment was due to this sacrilegious person? The H. man reply'd, That he ought to be burnt as Hereticks are. Upon this the Angel said; The Inhabitants of this place have put the Son of God into a stinking obscure Prison; and, which is more, they have cast the H. Pix, that is, their heart, into a dunghill of all sorts of uncleanness and vanities, for which crimes they have merited these and greater Chastisements. When the people un∣derstood this, they set themselves to repent of their sins, that they might be delivered from these punishments. In Spec. Exempl. tit. Eu∣char. Ex. 13.