horrible judgment of God, was struck with palsy, and continued to live in that condition until St. Sylvester’s Day, on which he breathed out his malicious spirit into the abodes of darkness.” Nor did the wrath of his adversaries stop here. In 1415, more than thirty years after his death, the Council of Constance selected from his writings a number of propositions, which they reprobated and branded with the mark of heresy; consigned his memory to infamy and execration; issued an order that “his body