text:  If my surprise had been great without the sacred edifice what was it within and at that particular portion of it known by the designation of _the Chapel of the Virgin Mary_ at which I beheld questioning my own senses my unaccountable friend this exceedingly erratic baron--upon his knees--in solemn prayer! Yes kneeling in low humility and praying audibly with a devotion and an awful earnestness that could not be surpassed