SPEAR, that pierced the Side of our Saviour. Tavernier says, in his Persian Travels, l. 1. p. 44. that in a Monastery near to Erivan, they shew the Iron of a Spear, or Lance, which, according to the Tradition of the Armenians, is that with which the Side of Jesus Christ was pierced upon the Cross. They hold this Spear in great Veneration, and say it was brought into their Country by St. Matthew himself; Here is the Figure of it, which is very particular.
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