ABSTRACT
This case, in addition to being one of the most famous in the annals of flagellation, affords at the same time an admirable exposé of that wonderfully lax morality and persevering cunning which was at one time held to be characteristic of the Jesuit order. The details of the case have been most minutely chronicled in more than one European language, but the particulars of the disciplines and other spiritual transactions that occurred between Father Girard and his pupil are much too gross for publication; we dare only venture, therefore, to lay one or two of the chief points of the case before our readers.
