{"id":2317,"date":"2018-08-17T17:55:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/42-the-virgin-marys-milk\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:55:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:55:43","slug":"42-the-virgin-marys-milk","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/42-the-virgin-marys-milk\/","title":{"raw":"42. <i>The Virgin Marys Milk<\/i>.","rendered":"42. <i>The Virgin Marys Milk<\/i>."},"content":{"raw":" <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/91\" target=\"new\">73<\/a><\/span> <p>The relicks of the Virgin Mary's milk are well explained by Pietro della Valle. They shew a cave at Bethlehem where she is said to have hidden herself and the child from Herod. The soil is a soft white stone, which is of course excellent in all diseases, but has a special virtue to bring back the milk to a mother who may have lost it. For this reason the powder is called by the monks who administer it <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/92\" target=\"new\">74<\/a><\/span>in water, the Virgin's Milk. It would be brought to Europe as a treasure, and the origin of the name is quite as likely to have been mistaken by pious credulity, as to have been concealed by fraud.<\/p>\n \n","rendered":"<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/91\" target=\"new\">73<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The relicks of the Virgin Mary&#8217;s milk are well explained by Pietro della Valle. They shew a cave at Bethlehem where she is said to have hidden herself and the child from Herod. The soil is a soft white stone, which is of course excellent in all diseases, but has a special virtue to bring back the milk to a mother who may have lost it. For this reason the powder is called by the monks who administer it <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/92\" target=\"new\">74<\/a><\/span>in water, the Virgin&#8217;s Milk. It would be brought to Europe as a treasure, and the origin of the name is quite as likely to have been mistaken by pious credulity, as to have been concealed by fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":42,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2317","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2317\/revisions\/2318"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2317\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}