Show erasmus Eri alms box erasmus noted scholar and reform er of the sixteenth century with hla bla friend dean colet founder of st pauls school visited st nicholas nim shuse in england and one of the brethren ordered a holy relic for them to kiss as was the custom before sprinkling ung guests with holy water writes lovinia walsh in the boston transcript the relic in this case was wa a part of a shoe once worn by st thomas of canterbury the lean it seems was not kissing old shoes ho he forthwith got hot under his clerical collar and became rhetorically hectic the scholarly erasmus on the contrary was most moat courteous and to make amends for the deans mosbe hallor he dropped a goodly sum into the alma box ever after this box was known as the erasmus alaj al box |