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Legend of the Jew of the Rue des Billettes, Paris, 14th century, (1870). A Jew allegedly pierced the holy wafer with his knife. Accusations of host desecration gradually ceased after the Reformation. A wood engraving after a window of the church of St Alpin, Chalons-sur-Marne. Illustration from The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, (London, 1870).