The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - The Christ Flower*

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Series: New York Weekly v. 33 no. 29 — page 8
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: New York Weekly, v. XXXIII, no. 29, June 3, 1878 (Issue)
Author: Fahy, Wm. E., Dr.
Date: June 3, 1878
Edition Description: * I saw, while in Rio Janeiro, a similar mystical plant in possession of the family of Don Marcello Vigantes, a physician of the above-named city, and named by them "El Spiritus Sancto." Whence it came I know not, as my acquaintance with the family was not of sufficiently long duration to justify me in inquisitive inquiry. Can any other reader afford any information regarding it?-W. E. F.
First Sentence: Rome was in her grandest glory and her wildest dream of joy; blood, a great carnival of blood, was about to be enacted in that mightiest of slaughter-houses, that greatest, if not grandest, architectural design conceived by the mind of man, the Coliseum.
Last Sentence: But no so his Christian wife, whose descendants have to this day in their possession (though cold ancient history marks not the event) that wonderful mystic thing, totally unknown to the savants of botany, yet treasured and named by Gertrudina's heirs as a most holy relic of the God-boon- "The Christ Flower."

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