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"Yes, yes, I now remember it all," said Albani, with a smile "You spoke
to olden tube,
you would gladly help to the honor of being drunk by his holiness from
the communion chalice"
"It is so precious a wine that only the vicegerent of God is worthy of
wetting his lips with it It must touch the lips of no other mortal!"
"I know such a wine," said Albani; "it thrives best in the region
of Naples,() and whoever drinks of it becomes a partaker of eternal
blessedness"
() The celebrated poison, Acqua Tofana, is prepared only
in Naples
"Yes, you are right, it is a wonderfully strengthening wine!" said the
prior, folding his hands and directing his eyes toward the heavens "We
thank God that He has left us in possession of so precious an essence!
The pope, they say, is suffering and needs strengthening See how
closely we follow the teaching of Him whose name we bear, and who has
commanded, 'Love your ene ourselves, ould be his benefactors, and refresh him with
the most precious of e possess!"