“Why seek ye the living among the dead?”—Luke xxii.,

“Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.”—Genesis xxii.

In the Book of Numbers, chapter xxii., the account commences.

Twenty-seven years have passed since he completed the journey from Zachary, La., to most valuable player in Super Bowl XXII.

Such a process of selection was not likely to result in the evolution of a saint, and John XXII. was its natural exponent.

In the very next year, 1320, John XXII. issued orders that all copies of it should be seized and burned.