This church was built in the year 625, by _St. Virgil_, and is a curious
piece of antiquity within, and particularly without; but I will not
omit to give you one of its singularities within; it is an ancient and
curious inscription in large Gothic letters, near the organ:
Terrarum Roma Gemina de luce majistrA.
Ros Missus Semper Aderit: velut incola IoseP
Olim Contrito Letheo Contulit OrchO.
To read this you will see you must take the first letter of each verse:
TRO, _Trophemus_; GAL, _Galliaeorum_; and APO, _Apostolus_. The letter H,
belonging to the word _Joseph_, must be carried to the word _Orcho_, and
the P must stand by itself.
_Trophimus Galliarum Apostolus, ut ros missus est, ex urbe Romae rerum
Dominae Gemina de luce, scilicet a Petro et Paulo, Ecclesiae luminaribus;
Contrito orcho Letheo, nempe statim post Christi Passionem qua Daemonis &
orchi caput contrivit, semper animos nostras nutriet, cibo illo, divinae
fidei quem nobis contulit: ut alter Joseph qui olim AEgypti populum same
pereuntem liberavit.
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