presence with which he was so taken that immediately he conceaued a sensible hatred of all such things as blind mortall men hould most in esteeme and of those things especially which carry with them any shew of vnlawfull delight so that froÌ„ thence-forward the remembrance of them how deeply soeuer by long vse and custome rooted in his imagination was vtterly extinct in him washed away At other tymes in like manner the Mother of God often shewed her selfe to S. Ignatius but principally whilst he composed the Constitutions of the Society either offering vp her prayers and comforting him with her presence or confirming the Constitutions he wrote of the Society Besides Christ our Sauiour himselfe vouchsafed often to comfort him with his desired presence at Manresa and other places In his iourney to Venice being left behind by his fellow-trauellers in certaine meddowes neare the Riuer Po not being able through weakenes to hould on his iourney with them our Sauiour Christ as he had often done appeared vnto him the next night and hauing exceedingly encouraged him conducted him the direct way to the Towne of Padua first and after wards to Venter In his sea-voyage to Hierusalem our B. Sauiour often appeared to him to his infinite incouragement and conducted him at last to a safe Hauen in Palestine At Hierusalem being reuiled with opprobrious words by a certayne Armenian who laying violent hands vpon him dragged him in an iniurious manner to his Inne in the midst of these affronts he behold our Sauiour present with him accompanying him in his iniuryes to his great contentment As he trauelled to Rome with his two Companions to found the Society he entred into a certaine Church of which there are many standing vpon the high way not far from the Citty to performe some deuotioÌ„s being as he was accustomed rapt into an Extasie and traÌ„sported in Contemplation God the Father appeared to him in a glorious light with his B. sonne bearing his Crosse making shew of the bitter pangs and torments he endured who commending S. Ignatius with his Companions to his Father God the Father when he had graciously receaued them to his protection turning to the Saint with a cherefull browe wouchsafed to vtter these comfortable words Ego vobis Romae propitius ero And this was the cheife cause that after the Confirmation of te Society S. Ignatius imposed vpon it the soueraigne name of Iesus Besides the writers of his life affirme that he had often visions of the Diuine persons sometymes all togeather at other tymes only some one of the alone and of the diuine Essence it selfe and these things especially at the sacrifice of the Masse and at such tyme as being busy with composing the Constitutions of the Society he implored the light and approbation of the diuine Wisdome This appeareth euidently by a large volume of his visions which for piety and memory sake himselfe tooke the paynes to reduce to a methode which visions in him were so admirable and so penetrating the profoundest mysteries of the diuine Essence that the most learned and famous Doctours of mysticall and schole-Diuinity of our age doubt not to professe in their printed books that if that opinion be true which with Saint Thomas and other Fathers of the Church many men follow that Moyses and S. Paul the Apostle euen in this life though for a short tyme beheld perfectly and not in a figure as the Saints in the next life do the diuine Essence and as other moderne writers beleiue of S. Ausien S. Bennet and S Giles Companion to S. Fâ—ancis the like perfect vision of God euen in this life may probably be beleiued to haue been seene by S. Ignatius who hath left behind him of himselfe with his owne hand writing that at such tyme as he wrote the Rules of the Society he often beheld the diuine Essence and Beâ—â—â— And before he had studied being yet vtterly vnlearned he was in so admirable a manner instructed by intellectuall viâ—â—â—s in matters of the Vnity of the Essence and Trinity of the Persons that in that Nonage of his conuersion he was able to compose a Booke of the B. Trinity That famous vision of the holy Ghost is not to be omitted who appeared to S. Ignatius whilst he composed the Constitutions of the Society sometymes in that admirable fashion of fiery flames as heretofore to the Apostles sometymes in other shapes Besides all which it was a thing vsual to this glorious Saint to be comforted with frequent visions of Saints Angels At such tyme as he ministred the Spirituall exercise in Mont Cassino to one Peter Ortizius an Agent of the Emperours praiyng earnestly for the health of B. Hosius his Companion whom he knew to ly grieuously sick he suddainely saw a thing reported to haue hapned to S. Bennet in the same place at the tyme of the decease of German the Bishop the soule of his CoÌ„panion shining wouÌ„drous bright carried vp by Angels enter into Heauen And not long after going one day to the Altar in the very Introite of his Masse imploring the aide of all the Saints a glorious Squadron of Saints appeared before him amoÌ„gst whom he perfectly saw B. Hosius in a most glorious manner With which two visions he was so ouerioyed that for many dayes after he could not containe himselfe from weeping When Father Iohn Codurius one of the first Fathers lay in daunger of his life with a violent sicknes S. Ignatius intending to offer vp the holy Sacrifice of the Masse for him at S. Peters in Moâ—te Aureâ— in his iourney thither being almost halfe way ouer the bridge â—aâ—iculus commonly knowen now by the name of Poâ—â—e Sixâ—â— he cast vp and fixed his eyes vpon the heauens and behold the soule of F. Iohn Codurius gloriously carried vp amongst the Quires of Angels turning afterwards to F Baptista Viola his CoÌ„panion let vs quot he returne home for our Codurius is deceased At an other tyme whilst he was writing the Rules of the Society he behold the Saints in their glory in so Maiesticall a fashion as he confessed was not to be expressed And whilst he was busy with the same Rules he often heard not with the eares of his vndestanding only but with the eares of his body most harmonious musicke from Heauen with which he was enflamed with diuine loue and melted into teares The yeare after his conuersion being present at Masse in the Dominicans Church at the eleuation of the sacred Host he perfectly saw that vnder that figure true God and man was really contained At such tyme as hee composed the Constitutions of his Society hauing one day consecrated the holy Host and offered to Almighty God the Rules of his Society God the Father appeared most graciously vnto him insinuating by some mysticall signification that it would be a thing pleasing to his diuine Maiesty that the Mother of God should offer vp her prayers vnto him for him Wherevpon
people communicated I saw no such thing In the. 40. Chapter and 455. page of her life she speketh thus of the said Society of Iesus witnesse Ribera in her life writen by him in his 4. Booke and 5. Chapiter BEing vpon a tyme at my prayers with great recollection peace and quietnes I seemed to my selfe to be placed neare God and inuironed with Angels where I besought his diuine Maiesty for the good of the Church And it was reuealed to me what profit should accrew to the Church by a certayne Religious Order in the later dayes together with the fortitude with which that Order should vphold the Church And Ribera in the place aboue mentioned expresseth these words spoken then by Christ to S. Teresia to haue been vnderstood of the Society of Iesus as Martin Martinez translateth them pag 307. Oh if thou didst know what supplies those men shall bring to the decaying Church in after ages c. Which vision she saith she often had And howbeit in that life of S. Teresia which goeth about in print the name of the Society is not particularly expressed yet in the originall life and in all written copies I haue seen of it the name of the Society is particularly vsed And these words of our Sauiour she repeateth againe in the 40. Chapter howsoeuer not expressing the name of the Society which as I said is apparent and receaued from the mouth of S. Theresia her selfe So Martinez The said S. Teresia hearing one day the Masse of F. Balthazar Aluarez of the Society of Iesus her Ghostly Father saw him crowned with a Crowne of wonderfull brightnes all the tyme his Masse endured as Lewis de la Puente recounteth in the life of F. Aluarez c. 6. § 1. pag. 69. It was reuealed to S. Teresia that the said F. Aluarez her Ghostly Father should be saued and our Sauiour shewed her an eminent place in Heauen which he was to enioy adding that he was at that present arriued to so high a degree of perfection in this world as was not exceeded by any man then aliue that according to that degree his seate in Heauen was prepared that he was gon beyond the perfection of all creatures then vpon the earth and yet then the Church of God was well stored with men of rare Sanctity as well in the Society as out of it This reuelation S. Teresia discouered to F. Baltazar himselfe and other Fathers of the Society and to some of her owne Monastery other Religious persons who reported it as a truth infallible She noted it also in her secret Notes which fell afterwards into the hands of Diego Iepesio Bishop of Tarazona who set forth her life in Spanish in the yeare 1606. and dedicated it to Pope Paul the fifth amongst which Notes he finding this reuelation imparted it to others as Lewis de la Puente writeth in the life of F. Aluarez § 2. pag. 124. and 126. The said S. Teresia being demaunded by one of her NuÌ„ns whether she thought it would any way auaile her to be directed by F. Aluarez replied that it were a great mercy of Almighty God to her for quoth she he is one to whom my soule oweth more then to all others in this world and who hath more assisted â—â—d directed me in the way of perfection So writeth Lewis de la Puente in the life of F. Aluarez cap. 11. in the beginning of the page 117. The same S. Teresia appearing many yeares after her death to a certaine seruaÌ„t of God of approued vertue credit and one particularly deuoted to herselfe and comforting her in her afflictions amoÌ„gst other things vttered these words And I my selfe quoth she am a child of the Society and had one of that Order for my Ghostly Father whom now I see and honour in Heauen Which she vnderstood of F. Aluarez for though she had other Ghostly Fathers also of the Society yet he remained longest so and with great industry assisted her to put in execution those her aspiring thoughts and of whom she boasted that he had been her Ghostly Father and Master Se Lewis de la Puente in the life of F. Aluarez cap. 58. § 1. page 607. The same S. Teresia knew by reuelation of the death of fourty Fathers and Brothers of the Society martyred by the heretikes in their iourney to Brasill and as soone as they were put to death reuealed it to F. Aluarez her Ghostly Father that she had seene theÌ„ with crownes of Martyrdome in Heauen As Diego Iepesio Bishop of Tarazona writeth in the life of S. Theresia lib. 3. cap. 7. pag. 152. The same S. Theresia saw the soule of F. Gutierez of the Society of Iesus who died in France for the faith by the miseryes sustained in prison carried in triumph into Heauen with a Laurell of Martyrdome as is to be read in the life of F. Suarez printed at Lions 1620. in the begining of his first Tome de Graâ—â—a But they of the Society who haue either been Ghostly Fathers of S. Teresia or els at her intreaty haue had the examination of her spirit or reuelations and haue approued them are these following as they are mencioned by the writers or translatours of S. Teresia's life B. Francis Borgia F. Antony Araoz F. Giles Gonzalez F. Balthazar Aluarez F Martin Gutiers F. Salagar F. Ripalda F. Paul Hernandez F. Rodorignez Aluarez F. Santander F. Francis Ribera F. Henriquez F. Bartholmew Perez others singularly expert in matters of spirit whose names the Reader may find in the abridgment of the life of B. Mother Teresia set forth at Rome by the Rd. Father Friar Iohn discalced Carmelite in his 1. booke 1. chapter and 8. page and 1. booke 10. chapter and 51. page and 4. booke 4. and 5. chapters 227. 231 pag. And in Ribera 4. booke 7. Chapter and 316. page of his Roman edition in Italian And in the 8. page of the Italian abridgemeÌ„t published at Rome this present yeare And in the preface of Cosmo Gacci annexed to the Italian life of S. Tertsia And in the Epistle dedicatory of the said life printed in Latin at Collen by Iohn Kinckius And that S. Teresia drew those first beginnings of her more tender and entire freindship with Almighty God from the aduise and couÌ„sel of a Ghostly Father of hers of the Society the R. Father Iohn a Iesus Maria discalced Carmelite witnesseth in his abridgement of her life lib. 1. c. 10. pag. 51. in these words About that time saith he her Ghâ—stly Father deceased at Abâ—â—a a thing which much afflicted her because she coÌ„ceaued she should hardly find another to succeed him so answerable to her desire Yet she chose another of the same Society who discouering that out of a noblenes of disposition in her she would not suffer herselfe to be behind hand with any person who bore her any affection in the way of freind-ship in such things nouerthelesse as lesned not her affection to heauenly
THE GLORY OF THE B. FATHER S. IGNATIVS OF LOYOLA FOVNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF IESVS PRINTED MDC.XXXII At Rouâ—n by John â—ouâ—tuâ—er 1â—33 THE LIFE OF THE B. FATHER S. IGNATIVS OF LOYOLA FOVNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF IESVS AND the glory he atchiued through Gods assistance partly by his owne admirable sanctity confirmed by his miracles and Canonization partly by the wonderfull holy life of S. Francis Xauerius his associate and spirituall child partly by the many commendations of the Society he instituted many wayes diuulged by S. Teresia partly by S. Philip â—â—â—erius his rare testimony of S. Ignatius togeather with the correspondency held betwixt him and the Society partly by the knowne sanctity of S. Charles Borromeus miraculously attained by the vse of S. Ignatius his spirituall Exercises with his affection and esteeme of the Society The heads from whence such things are deriued as this treatise maketh mention of in the selfe-same words and phrases of the Authours 1. The many processes for the Canonization of the SS Ignatius and Xauerius contayning the graue testimonies of six hundred threescore fifteene witnesses concerning the life and vertues of S. Ignatius alone 2. The relations of the Auditours of the holy Rote deliuered in writing to the Pope and gathered out of sundry processes made by autority of his Holines for the Canonization of the Ss. Ignatius Xauerius Teresia Phillip Nerius receaued and approued by the Lords Cardinalls of the holy Rites as they terme them 3. The relations made in the name of the Congregation of Cardinalls of the holy Rites before our holy Father Pope Gregory the fifteenth in a priuate Consistory by the right Honorable Lord Cardinall a Monte Francisco Maria Bishop of Portua printed at Rome this present yeare touching the life sanctity and miracles of the Sâ— Ignatius Xauerius Teresia and Phillip Nerius 4. The memorable things done by the SS Ignatius Xauerius Teresia Phillip Nerius Charles Borromaeus published at Rome Naples Salamanca Venice Madrid Antvverp Collen Ingolstade Dilinge Ausbourg other places by permission of superiours Out of all vvhich heads this treatise vvas compiled at Cracouia printed by Andrew Petriconius vvith licence of Superiours and intituled The glory of the B. Father Saint Ignatius of Loyola Founder of the Society of IESVS Which copy wo follow APPROBATIO Cracouiensis EGo Sebastianus Nucerinus Sanctae Theologiae Doctor Ecclesiae Cathedralis Cracouien Ordinarius Concionator librorum in dioecesi Craco In lucem prodeuÌ„tium Censor fideÌ„ presentibus facio quia opusculum hoc de Gloria S. Ignatii Loyola Fundatoris Societatis Iesu à Patribus eiusdem Societatis prius relectum vidi ac deuoto studio probaui atque vt lucerna haec in candelabro Ecclesiae typo poneretur potestateÌ„ feci Crac. 6. Iulij Anno 1622. Sebastianus Nucerinus THE GLORY OF St. IGNATIVS OF LOYOLA Founder of the Society of IESVS Of the Birth of S. Ignatius and of his Conuersion to a good life CHAPTER I. SAINT Ignatius was borne in that part of Spaine adioyning to the Pyrenan hills which beareth the name of Biscay in the yeare 1461. His Father was Bertrand Iannez Lord of Ognez and Loyola of an ancient noble Family His Mother no way inferiour to her Husband in worth and Nobility was Mary SaÌ„chez descended of noble PareÌ„ts Lords of Balda Both which families in Biscay are of the number of them to which the Spaniards giue the name and title of Great Ones These were the parents from whom S. Ignatius descended who being himself endowed with admirable parts of soule and body hauing been bred a Page some tyme in the Court of King Ferdinand the Catholike desirous now to gaine himselfe a reputation by the warres betooke himself to Don Antonio Manriquez Duke of Naiara and Vice-Roy of Nauarre one who had been anciently allied with the family of Loyolaes began to apply himselfe wholy to the warres But the Castle of Pâ—â—plona the principall Citty of Nauarre the defeÌ„ce of which was coÌ„mitted to the charge of Ignatius chancing to be besieged by the French Army a stone driuen out of the wall by the force of the Artillery wounded him in his left thigh as he was seruing brauely at the head of his troupes and so vtterly broke his right leg that with the blow he fell halfe dead vpon the place which hapned vpon whitson Munday the 26. of May in the yeare 1521. Ignatius being wounded the Fort was taken by the French by whom Ignatius was nobly treated cured of his hurts and sent home But whilst yet he kept his bed demaunding some prophane Bookes to passe his tyme two Bookes were brought vnto him one of the life of Christ the other of his Saints with the perusall of which he found himselfe so touched that to follow the stepps of Christ he resolued to leaue the world and take a iourney to Hierusalem there to confirme the Christians in matters of spirit and to conuert the Infidels to the Faith of Christ The memorable things done by S. Ignatius from the tyme of his conuersion till his death CHAPTER II. SAint Ignatius now cured of his hurts bids adieu to his PareÌ„ts all worldly distractions notwithstanding the strong opposition of his Brother and being to serue from thence-forth vnder the colours of Christ tooke his iourney to the Monastery of the Benedictin Monks of Mont-serrata where making a generall confession of his sinnes a thing in those dayes almost out of vse offering vp his sword and dagger with which he serued the world in the Church of that Monastery he watched that whole night being the Eue of the Saluation of our B. Lady before the Altar of that sacred Virgin bare-headed clad in a course long Cassacke girt with a Cord dedicating himselfe there to the seruice of God in the yeare 1522. from wheÌ„ce he departed continuing to yeild worthy fruits of pennance in the Hospital of Manresa and in a Caue neare the Riuer which washeth the feilds therabouts and arriued at last at Rome in the yeare 1523. where hauing had the blessing of Pope AdriaÌ„ the 4. he trauelled foreward towards Hierusalem But not being able for the imminent daunger and feare of the Turks to remayne there and employ his endeauours in the gaining of soules he returned into Spaine where that he might the better assist his neighbour in affayres of spirit being now thirty yeares of age he put himself to the Grammer-schole at Bercelona spending afterwards at Alcala a yeare and a halfe in the studies of Philosophy and Diuinity and lastly in the space of almost eight yeares made a repetition of these studies at Paris liuing vpon Almes in coÌ„tinuall works of Charity Humility and Pennance where by the example of his holy life by his prayers spirituall discourses he gained to himselfe Nine other Companions and amoÌ„ght them S. Francis Xauerius Men famous for their vertues discretion and learning And togeather with them made a vowe that their course of
by his fellow-trauellers and arriuing late in the euening at Venice where knowing not the way to the publicke Hospitall nor hauing any money to hire himselfe a guide being now accustomed by long vse to lodge ill he found an empty Trades-mans stall in an open publicke gallery where the night drawing on he might in some sort rest his wearied limmes But whilst he passed thus the night a neighbouring Senatour Marco Antonio Treuisano a man of knowne integrity who afterwards came to be Dogue of Venice was raised vp by a voice from Heauen rebuking him for solacing in a soft bed and curious furniture whilst in the meane tyme the seruant of God being a stranger and destitute of all human comfort lay poorely in an open place not farre from his porch He therfore being stroken with infinite horrour and feare arose suddainely finding S. Ignatius gaue him noble entertainement In his sea-voyage to Hierusalem he discouered that many foule facts were committed by some of the passengers in the ship he passed for which he in reprehending them freely they conspired with the marriners plotting to put ashoare this troublesome controller in some desert Iland out of their sight and fellowship Which designe of theirs being discouered by some other Spanish passengers they acquainted Ignatius with it counselling him withall to haue a care of himselfe But he notwithstanding when gentle admonitions would not serue continued to reprehend them sharply for their enormities relying vpon the prouidence and helpe of Heauen by the fauour of which it came to passe that they approaching neare the Iland destined for their exploit were violently driuen backward with a contrary wind and whether they would or no brought Ignatius to his desired Hauen Being to returne into Italy he found by chance three Passage-boats bound for that place two of which being tall strongly built ships refused to admitt Ignatius the third a small and ill compacted vessell receaued him and hauing put to sea togeather with a fauorable wind the two which refused to receaue S. Ignatius were suddainely cast away and the third only which transported him being weake much beaten with tempest and foule weather arriued the moneth following safe in Apulia At Alcala at the instance of the Suffragant of that place one Iohn Lucena made a gathering for the clothing of S. Ignatius in his Clergy garments with whom comming to a certayne person of quality to demaund almes for that purpose the noble man rurning to S. Ignatius If this fellow quoth he pointing to the Saint deserue not to be burnt I will he contented to be burnt in his place And the selfe same day a thing worth obseruing that noble personage was consumed by fire which by chance had taken hould on part of his house At Paris one Michael a Spaniard being incensed against S. Ignatius for hauing drawne Saint Francis Xauerius to the warrefare of Christ from the midst of apparent worldly honours attending him resolued to kill him as the authour of this fact And hauing violently entred his lodging for that purpose and in a rage rushed vp staires with his naked sword he was affrighted vpon a suddaine with this voice from Heauen Whither goest thou miserable wretch and returned back againe discouering the whole busines himselfe being afterwards conuicted by the guilt of his owne conscience Not sar from Bassana liued a certaine Anchorite a man of a faire reputation of sanctity who obseruing curiously S. Ignatius and finding nothing peculiar in his habit differing from that of the ordinary sort of Clergy and perceauing him to be of a pleasing familiar behauiour without any shew of an Eremeticall spirit measuring his sanctity by the square of a solitary life concluded there was nothing singular in him or deseruing particular note or remarke and therfore began within himselfe to slight him and cōceaue a poore opinion of his worth But Almighty God would not long permit the simplicity of the man to be misled by errour For being in his prayers more vehement then ordinary Almighty God was pleased to reueale vnto him that the man of whom he had conceaued so slight an opinion was a man full of Apostolicall spirit and a vessell of election for the safety of many From which tyme foreward the Anchorite condemning with sorrow his owne rashnes resolued euer after to reuerence S. Ignatius his followers F. Iames Fguia◠a man of knowne Sanctity and Ghostly father to S Ignatius was wont to say in the life tyme of the Saint that he liued more by miracle then by the force of nature And after the death of S. Ignatius the most famous and renowned Phisicians of that tyme examining the vitall parts of his body being opened held it for a miracle that he should liue so long especially vndergoing the charge of Generall of the Society with so continuall and constant a pleasant face and countenance For his stomacke through his abstinence sobriety and continuall drines appeared strangely contracted His liuer was so hardned and congealed that it was almost become stonie And Realdo Columbo a famous Anatomist of that age witnesseth in his booke of anatemy that he found three stones in his liuer veyne or as they terme it in his Vena Porta This extraordinary care God had of the life and reputation of S. Ignatius is confirmed by the sentences of many graue Iudges often giuen in behalfe of the innocency of S. Ignatius at Alcala Salamanca Venice Paris Rome howsoeuer his aduersaries by foule slaunders and calumnies employed all their art to traduce his innocency and vtterly take a way his fame and good name But of all others the clearing of S. Ignatius at Rome of that most iniurious imputation laid to his charge by a Monke infected with the heresyes of Luther was the most famous For this Mōke hauing spred abroad that S. Ignatius and his followers as men guilty of grosse enormities had been conuicted of heresy and other foule facts in Spaine and France and of late also at Venice and that hauing escaped the hāds of Iustice they were come to Rome to debauch corrupt youth vnder the colour of piety with the like foppeperies broached by this Monke and his complices it begat in short tyme so violent a hatred against S. Ignatius his Companiōs that many men began to esteeme them runne-agate wandring Rogues and to detest and fly their Society and aquaintance And the bruit had not only filled the mouthes of the vulgar in Rome but it spread it self by meanes of the letters messengers of their aduersaries into other Coūtries and adioyning Prouinces that the IGNATIANS with their ring leader were esteemed branded men conuicted of heresy and other foule crimes But our Sauiour Iesus who had made a promise to S Ignatius in his iourney to Rome that he would be sauorable to him quickly deliuered him out of these calamities For it came to passe miraculously that almost all they who had been Iudges of S.
wrote to him he did it with reuerence vpon his knees and in his Reliquary he wore the name of S. Ignatius cut out of a letter of his to him as the relique of some great Saint whilst yet he was aliue He suffered himselfe to be guided like a child by S. Ignatius depending wholy of him and euer cherishing in his brest an admirable opinion of his sanctity which vpon all occasions he desired to expresse VVhich words saith S. Chrisostome in the like subiect hom 1. ad populum do sufficiently demonstrate and speake all his vertues for the iudgments of Saints goe not either by fauour or disfauour but are to be held vnquestionable The B. Virgin S. Teresia added much to the glory of S. Ignatius CHAP. XIX IF the glory of the Father be the wise child as holy writ expresseth the B. Virgin S. Teresia that glorious Foundresse of the Disealced Carmelites a woman so famous for her admirable and heroicall vertues who by those eminent degrees of Contemplation arriued to so fast a freindship with Christ renowned for her writings of mysticall Diuinity glorious for her patience and sufferance of labours one so higly esteemed through the Christian world for her reformation of the Carmelytes an elect spouse of Christ who through her vehemency of diuine loue was often surprised with extasies a woman famous for that fiery Cherubins dart piercing her brest one inflamed with an vnquencheable desire and thirst of soules adorned with the flower of pure Virginity glorious ouer the Christian world for her celestiall visions her spirit of prophecy her manifold guift of cures in her life tyme and after this sacred Virgin I say added much to the glory of S. Ignatius as one who acknowledged herselfe a child of his Society making vse of the Fathers of it for her confessions and the whole manage of her spirituall affayres and miraculously came to the knowledge of many things in praise of the Society leauing testimonyes of it both by word and writing and particularly in her Lise written by her selfe by the commaund of a certayne great Diuine of the Order of S. Dominick Out of which Life translated afterwards into Italian printed at Rome in the yeare 1601. and dedicated to Pope Clement the eight by the Arch-Bishop of Auignion I will here relate some passages translated word by word into Latin In the 5. Chapter and 47. page of the said life S. Teresia writeth thus I Remained in this blindnes aboue 17. yeares as I remeÌ„ber til a certaine learned Father of the Order or S. Dominick opened my eyes in some things and they of the Society of Iesus possessed me intyrely with such feares to wâ— that certaine sinnes were not to be esteemed trâ—fles which some ignorant Ghostly Fathers had taught her to be no sinns aggrauating my ill conceaued principles as I will relate hereafter c. In the 23. Chapter and 236. page of the same life S. Teresia writeht thus VVHen the Fathers of the Society of Iesus arriued here to whom I not knowing any of them found my selfe much addicted only because I had vnderstood as well of their insight into matters of Spirit as of their maÌ„ner of Praier but I found not worth in my selfe to discourse with them nor strength enough to obey them c. And againe in the same Chapter page 239. the speaketh thus IT was for my greater good that I came to know and deale with men so holy as they of the Society of Iesus It is here by the way to be noted that one Antony Kerbeke an Augustin Friar in his Latin version of the life of S. Teresia published at MeÌ„ts the yeare 1603. and printed by Iohn Albin hath omitted this almost all things els written by S. Teresia in praise of the Society But what his drift was in it it is hard to iudge And in the 244. page I Was afflicted suspecting my owne misery that they of the houshould should see me deale with persons of such Sanctity as they of the Society I seemed to haue the greater obligation not to become so miserable and to depriue my self of my idle recreations And againe page 246. in the end of the Chapter S. Teresia writeth BLessed be God who gaue me grace howsoeuer vnperfectly to obey my ghostly Fathers who for the most part were those blessed men of the Society of Iesus and my soule afterwards began to perceaue a manifest amendment as now I will relate In the 24. Chapter and 249. page she writeth thus of the Society I Dwelt not farre from them reioysing much that I could haue often communication with them for my only knowing of the holines of their conuersation was the cause of that great proficience I discouered in my soule In the 33. Chapter and 364. page writing of a certaine iourney she made with licence of her Prouinciall I Was much comformed when I vnderstood that in that place there was a House of the Society of Iesus In the 38. Chapter and 421. page she writheth thus of the Society SAint Teresia here in her originall manuscript expresseth the name of the Society and reported the same by word of mouth witnesse Ribera in his life of S. Teresia printed at Rome in the 4. Booke 5. Chapter and 207 page which life the Reuerend Father Friar John a Iesu Maria discalced Carmelite in his abridgement of S. Teresia's life printed at Rome in the yeare 1609. and dedicated to Pope Paul the first stileth a history most worthy to be credited in his 1. Book 1. Chapter and 4. page thus say S. Teresia writeth of the Society I saw admirable things of some Religious persons of a certayne Order and of the whole Order in generall I oftentymes saw them in Heauen with white banners in their hands and at other tymes I had the like visions full of admiration In which respect I hould the said Order in great veneration as one who haue long conuersed with them and perceaue their liues to be conformable to that which Almighty God hath reuealed to me of them The same is to be read in the life of S. Teresia pag. 303. published in Latin by Martin Martinez and printed at Collen by Iohn Kinckius in the yeare 1620. And in the same Chapter in the page 430. of her life S. Teresia writeth thus FInding my selfe thus much afflicted in soule and body in a certaine Church of the Society of Iesus where I was hearing the Masse which one of the Fathers said for a Brother of the Society lately deceased I saw him enter into Heauen with great glory and by a particular fauour accompany the Maiesty of our Lord. In the 39. Chapter and 447 page towards the end BEing saith she in a Church of a certaine Colledge of the Society whilst the Brothers of that Colledge were receauing the B. Sacrament I saw a precious garment or as the Italian translation stileth it Pallio hang ouer their heads and this I saw twice but when other