future as a preventative against accident, disease and sudden death.

There is another story which is told in regard to this Scapular, as
follows: It is said that the Virgin Mary appeared to Simon Stock in a
vision in behalf of the Carmelite Order, which at that time was in
great trouble, and gave to Stock a Scapular, which she bore in her
hand, in order that it could be worn, and which she guaranteed was
an order direct from God Almighty that the Carmelite Order should
wear this "trinket," which would be a preventative from any evil
overtaking any of those who did wear it, and further stating that all
of those who wore this Scapular "_shall never suffer eternal
burning_."

It is further stated that Pope John XXII, in his famous Sabbatine
Bull, declared that the Virgin Mary had appeared to him and informed
him that all the members of the Carmelite Order who wore this
Scapular should be gotten out of purgatory by her on the Saturday
after their death, and this Pope winds up his declaration with the
following sentence: "I accept, corroborate and confirm, in the name
of Jesus Christ, for our Glorious Virgin Mary, who has granted this
great privilege to those who wear the Scapular."

This abomination is nothing more nor less than a "tale of fiction,"
and promulgated by men who know that it is a positive lie, but they
do it in order to mystify the ignorant and to compel them to remain
in darkest ignorance.

Now, to convince the reader that Catholicism is as densely ignorant
to-day as it ever was, we will bring her history up to date.