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Updated: May 18, 2025

Saint Eulalia appeared too late to find her proper niche in Monsignor Perrelli's ANTIQUITIES or to be commemorated in some worthy architectural monument by the Good Duke Alfred; too late and this is doubtless a lucky circumstance to become the victim of one of Father Capocchio's offensive sneers.

Norman Douglas - South Wind

And it is the tibia not of a saint, but of a young cow or calf. We may mention, in passing, that we hold a diploma in anatomy from the Palermitan Faculty of Medicine." That was Father Capocchio's way: bald to coarseness, whenever he lacked occasion to be obscene. To Mr. Eames it would have mattered little, A PRIORI, whether the relic was a femur or a tibia, a cow or man.

Norman Douglas - South Wind