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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14418	An appendix of the saints lately canonized, and beatifyed by Paule the fift, and Gregorie the Fifteenth	Kinsman, Edward.; Villegas, Alonso de, b. 1534. Flos sanctorum.	1624 (1624)	STC 24738; ESTC S119155	96,102	310

one minute His obedience was so rare as you shall hardly find more perfect in these our times For tryall wherof being once bid by his Superiour to goe into the Indies the word was scarcely spoken but he was presently ready to haue put it in execution if the Porter would haue opened the dore And the Rectour demaunding afterwards of him how he thought to haue gone not hauing either prouision or commodity of shiping he answered that he went with great confidence in God whome his Superiour represented and who would prouide him of all things necessary that if he had not found the commodity of a ship relying vpon holy Obedience he would haue aduentured to haue gone vpon the seas He shut a doore through which he had occasion to passe almost cōtinually euery time he passed for the space of many yeares because his Superiour had asked him once why he did notshut it Another time the good Brother being sicke of a vehement ague the Rectour discoursing with him of spirituall matters as his manner was asked him if his head did not trouble him whereū to he answered that it did Thē said the Rectour vnto him Brother talke no more which he so punctually obserued that he spaken or one word all that night thou the infirmamariā did aske him many questions He continuated in the same manner the next day and when the Infirmarian tould him he might well answere because it was a necessary matter he said not without leaue of Father Rectour hereupon the Rectour was called and the Brother began to say If your Reuerence will giue me leaue I will answere the Infirmarian and Phifitian when they aske me any thing The Rectour asked him why he did not answere before Because said he your Reuerence yesterday bad me speake no more He had a great zeale of soules yet alwayes conformable to his estate for by his spirituall talke his modesty and good example he continually preached being Porter of the Colledge of Maiorca for the space of 30. yeares with vertuous reputation at home and edification abroad He hath done admirable things in conuersion of soules stirring vp all those who treated with him to great deuotion and holines of life He was very carefull to pray continually for the conuersion of the whole world and that with so great feruour of mind that he did offer himselfe to endure the paines of hell for all eternity for gayning the soule of one poore Blackmore or slaue if God were pleased therewith And once or twice God did so eleuate him in spirit that he faw and knew all the men women in the world and reuealed vnto him that by those godly desires of his he did merit as much as if he had conuerted all that multitude Concerning his modesty there was no man that euer saw him to haue swarued from the least point of perfection he went with his eyes still fixed on the ground without casting them any way so that for the space of 40. yeares he neuer looked any woman in the face though he vsually gaue wine to the Communicants after receauing the B. Sacrament at Masse He was so giuen to silence that albeit he conuersed all his life both with domesticalls and strāgets yet he is not knowne to haue spoaken the least idle word He delighted much to talke of God and if others did happē to talke of others matters he presently fell a sleepe He spake of spirituall things with so much affection that many persons of this Iland came of purpose to treate with him about their spitituall affaires and to aske his aduise in their doubtes By frequent cōuersation with Almighty God he had attayned to so great and height of spirituall knowledge that he left some Bookes written with his owne hand in which he speaketh so excellently of vertues that he farre surpasseth many learned men writing of the same subiect By reason wherof the Vice-roy of this Iland Bishops Counsellours Magistrats Knights and gentlemen had such an opinion of his wisedome that they would not vndertake any busines of importance without his aduise to whome he gaue great satisfaction by his plaine and pious discourses dismissed them with assured hope of the good successe of their busines which was neuer frustrated if they obserued his counsell His pouerty was so extraordinary that he was neuer content but when he tryed some effects therof He was sorry when the worste things of the house were not giuen him If he found but a pin he would not keepe it without leaue He desired continually to feele some want both in his dyet and apparell lodging and the like It could not be but that he who was so carefull ouer his senses should haue attayned vnto such angelicall purity as Saint Ignatius his Father required in those of the Society both of body and minde And therfore he neuer looked any man in the face but he wept most bitterly for a good while after which he did all his life time for hauing once cast his eye by chance vpon a coach passing by To be briefe by his practise of all sortes of vertue he seemed rather to be an Angell then a man for not only in these later yeares but for 40. yeares together he hath not bene noted to haue done any thing not only not imperfectly or according to his owne humour but so that it might seeme to be done most perfectly in so much that although the whole world and the forces of hell it selfe should haue opposed against him he would not haue ceased to doe that which was most perfect and for the greater glory of God which he had continually in his mouth and much more in his heart He was so punctuall in the obseruation of his Rules that he would rather haue bene cut in peeces then breake the least of them He did so hate singularity that euen in these later yeares wherin he was subiect to infirmitys he could not endure to sit at the table of the Conualescentes or such as were weake and in recouering of their health much lesse to haue any particular thing brought him Many haue conceyued so great an opinion of him that they would willingly haue passed the seas only to haue seene him and many great men both Secular and Ecclesiasticall were wont to come to the Colledge and stay there sometime only to conuerse with him who went away astonished with his readines in answering at the gate satisfying of all which came with his good carriage sweet answers and diligence in his Office Thus going on and mounting by degrees he came at last to that perfection of loue towardes almighty God that if his diuine Maiesty had notin a manner by miracle preserued him he had died through the vehemency of his loue as himselfe hath left written and also deliuered in giuing an account of his conscience to his Superiour which his rule commaundeth twice a yeare And to the end those things may be more assured he hath for