The Radical

Marriage Not Yet Done.--The Philadelphia Ledger says:--Accounts are contained in various religious publications, descriptive of the "Virginia of the Tirol," the Estatica of Caldara, and the Addolorata of Capriana. One of these virgins is represented as having lived for the last eight years without having ate, drank, or slept, and exhibiting in her person a perfect fac simile to the wounds inflicted on the person of the Savior at his crucifixion. The other presents, it is stated, pretty much the same appearances--the marks of the crown of thorns, the wounds in the side and hands and feet--she communes only with heaven and the angels, and has lived for six or seven years on a few grapes. This account is given, too, in respectable journals, in the middle of the nineteenth century, and attested by persons who are supposed to have a character for veracity. It is not difficult, after this, to believe in anything--no matter how absurd and contrary to reason, to nature, or the laws by which the Creator rules the Universe. One journal, we see, takes an individual to task for expressing a doubt of truth of this ridiculous story, and denounces him as an Anti-Christian.