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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue XXI, 7 April 1893, Page 20

Ainetbyst and several other so-called precious stones have become so cheap that they are no longer sold by the karar, but by the ounce. t Even the great amethyst that ordinarily graces an episcopal ring is no longer an expensive stone, and amethysts of poorer quality are ordinarily of trifling value. Rome, February 19.— The Irish pilgrims attended High Mast in the Basilica of 8t John Lateran, celebrated by Monsignor McOormsck Bishop of Galwaj and Kilmacduagh. By special permission of the Cardioal-Vicarthe relics of 88. Peter and Paul were exhibited to the pilgrims, who were afterwards taken to the Ohurch of Sacotg Mari* in Gerusalemme, where the famous relics of Calvary, including a splinter of the ttfie crow, the nails, and the crown of tborn«. were eeen and venerated,