Christmas Carols Ancient And Modern Including the Most Popular in the West of
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They were subse- quently paid by the priests to Judas in reward for his perfidy, and when he, smitten with remorse, returned them and hung himself, the chief priests applied fifteen of them for the purchase of the pot- ter's field, and with the remaining fifteen they bribed the soldiers who guarded the sepulchre to say that the disciples came by night and stole the body of our Saviour. After this they were dis- persed, and all traces of them lost. They were made of the purest gold, the term pie...ces of silver made use of in some parts of the Scripture in re- ference to them, being merely a common or generic name for money, as the word argent is now some- times used in France. On one side was a king's head crowned, and on the other some unintelligible Chaldaic characters ; they were said to have been of the value of three florins each. The three kings were baptized in their old age Ixxxvii by St. Thomas, and on their deaths their bodies were taken to Constantinople by the Empress He- lena, from thence they were subsequently removed to Milan, and afterwards carried to Cologne in the time of Reinaldus, Archbishop of that place, whence they are commonly called the Three Kings of Co- logne.
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