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This question is gone into fully; and the best authorities are quoted by the Bollandist.

Among these we may mention the eminent Bollandist and historian, P�re de Smedt, S. J.; Professors Gilbert and de Harlez, of the University of Louvain; Kurth, of Li�ge; de Lapporent and Duchesne, of Paris, de Margerie, of Lille; Valson, of Lyons; Duilh� de St. Projet, of Toulouse; de Nadaillac, de Beaucourt, de l'Epinois, Paul Allard, and many other names illustrious in science, history, literature, and other departments of learning.

Take for instance the twenty-five thousand Lives of the Saints in the great Bollandist collection.

Theophilus Rainaldo and the Bollandist fathers, as well as other Roman Catholic authors, tell us a gallant story of Pope St. Leo I., called the Great, which, if it were true, might show the origin of the practice.

The legend of the second of these saints is given in the Bollandist Acta SS.