Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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has been doubted, and his dance (_Chorea
Sancti Vit originally _chorea invita_. But the strangest of saints was S. Viar, who is thus accounted for by D'Israeli in his _Curiosities of Literature_:-- ``Mabillon has preserved a curious literary blunder of some pious Spaniards who applied to the Pope for consecrating a day in honour of Saint Viar. His Holiness in the voluminous catalogue of his saints was ignorant of this one. The only proof brought forward for his existence was this inscription:-- S. VIAR. An antiquary, however, hindered one more festival in the Catholic calendar by convincing them that these letters were only the remains of an inscription erected for an ancient surveyor of the roads; and he |
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