means of lighting up sacred shrines. jTt would indeed sound prosaic to offer your patron saint an Ozokerit, or engage to Jay on an extra jet of gas to his premises. The old custom must have been really useful in its day, as supplying the best means of lighting chnrches at a time when it would have been difficult and expensive to do so, except by some sort of co-operative system. The votive offerings of hundreds of devotees must have been sorely needed to brighten our tine old cathedrals, when the " candle of the period " **as all that could be depended upon.— Echo.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1491, 27 November 1872, Page 3
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