The pulpit everywhere dwelt with unction on the reality of fetich cures, and among the choice stories collected by Archbishop Jacques de Vitry for the use of preachers was one which, judging from its frequent recurrence in monkish literature, must have sunk deep into the popular mind: "Two lazy beggars, one blind, the other lame, try to avoid the relics of St.
Martin, borne about in procession, so that they may not be healed and lose their claim to alms.

The blind man takes the lame man on his shoulders to guide him, but they are caught in the crowd and healed against their will."(312) (311) See Baas, p.

614; also Biedermann.
(312) For the efficacy of flowers, see the Bollandist Lives of the Saints, cited in Fort, p.

279; also pp.

457, 458.