[Footnote 38: All parties believed in the leprosy and bath
of Constantine (Petrarch. Epist. Famil. vi. 2,) and Rienzi
justified his own conduct by observing to the court of
Avignon, that a vase which had been used by a Pagan could
not be profaned by a pious Christian. Yet this crime is
specified in the bull of excommunication, (Hocsemius, apud
du Cerceau, p. 189, 190.)]