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A19758	The historie, life, and miracle, extasies and revelations of the blessed virgin, sister Ioane, of the crosse, of the third order of our holy Father S. Francis. Composed by the Reuerend Father, brother Anthonie of Aca, diffinitor of the prouince of the conception, and chroinckler [sic] of the Order aforesaid. And translated out of Spanish into English, by a father of the same order	Daza, Antonio.; Bell, James, d. 1643.	1625 (1625)	STC 6185; ESTC S115421	144,091	328

as soone as she sawe him she stretched out her armes for to embrace him but at the same instant appeared his most holy mother taking him in her armes lifted her self vpon highe with him accompanied with infinite Angells who with most sweet harmonie made him musick But as soone as blessed Ioane sawe that the mother the Sonne departed and left her so alone iudgeing her selfe vnworthie of so soueraigne companie she remained very sadd and without comfort but she that is mother of comfort comforting her sayde Do not afflict thy selfe daughter but come toward the figtrees in the garden for there thou shalt find vs. 6. Most contented with this fauour accomplishing her office of obedience shee went to the garden looking on euery side to see that which her soule desired and approaching to the bake-howse neer vnto the figtrees she sawe our Lord Iesus Christ and his blessed mother and many Angells which awayted her And falling prostrate vpon the earth shee adored God and the B. virgin and stood long time enioying of that soueraigne vision so absorpt as although they called her with a bell she heard not vntill the mother of God said to her Goe daughter performe thy obedience for they haue called thee three seuerall times and thou hast neuer heard them Then leauing God and his mother for obedience sake shee went to see who it was that sought her and hauing done the businesse she returned by by to the bake-howse aforesaid where she had left her hart and her rest But some of the nonnes meeting her noted much the speed and hast with which she went that her face was very bright and that a sweet sauour proceeded from it for the which some of them followed her desirous to know what the matter was suspecting some great thing And seeing her enter into the bake howse they heard her say O soueraigne mother of God great is thy mercy towards me vnworthie sinner that I hauing gone and left thee and my most sweet espouse in this humble and poore place I find that you ar stil here attending for me The nonnes also heard the B. virgin answeare saying My daughter thou hast therfore found me because for obedience sake thou hast left me which much pleaseth my Sonne and me 7. The blessed Ioane was so fauoured of our B. Ladie the virgin as the fauours and comforts which she receiued from her powerfull hand cannot as they worthilie deserue be esteemed For not only being a child but when she was of greater age and in all times she had great reuelations and visites of our Lord and of his most holy mother both in r●ptes and out of them which dured her more or lesse time as pleased God At the beginning three or foure howres after they were greater for they came to fourteen and to twenty and forty houres euery one sometimes she was eleuated three dayes without returning to herself Once it happened her to returne from a very great rapt and scarcely to haue come to her selfe when only hearing named the most sweete name of Iesus or of seing some image of his most sacred passion shee was againe eleuated as before without any manner of sense or feeling She was most beautifull and shining in these rapts and when she returned from them the nonnes besought her that shee would tell where shee was and what shee had seen in those rapt●s and reuelations which although she refused to doe excusing her selfe for humilitie sake yet when it was the will of God that shee shold manifest it shee sayde that her good Angell carried her in spirite and set her in a throne very bright and glorious where she ●awe our Lord and his most holy mother and the Angells the Apostles and Euangelistes the Patriarches and Prophets our holy Father saint Francis and infinite other saints men and women of the newe and old testament giuing such euident signes of them as if she had beene borne and brought vp with them She said that they went adorned with their particular insignes The saints of the old testament with the figures therof which they represented conforme to their prophecies Abraham with the sacrifice of the lamb Moyses with his serpent and the bush Aaron with his rodd others with the Arck of the testament And that the saints of the newe testament carried also their ensignes The Apostles and Martyrs those of their martyrdome our holy Father S. Francis the fiue wounds more bright then starres others carried the chalice with the most holy Sacrament others the font of baptisme and others the keyes of the Church Euery one of them more faire and bright and more shining then the sunne in so much that it is a meruellous thinge and very pleasing to see and contemplate these things full of so much beautie and comlinesse as no tongue is able to explicate the same answerable to that which our Lord of his mercy doth shew them vnto me said the Saint and will that I see them from that holy place where as it seemeth to me I stand tyed with a certaine beame of that place which denoteth that my soule is not yet wholly vntied and free from the prison of this body 8. The blessed Ioane was foure and twentie yeares ould at which age the nōnes saw her fall into a rapt such as neither before nor after she neuer was seene to haue the like For other times when shee was rapt she remained with much beautie and lustre of her face but this time it was not so for all that wanted in her and she remained as one dead her eyes broken sunck her lippes blue her teeth gnashing her nose drawen vp and all the members of her body disioynted and stiffe and her face so pale and wanne as if she were altogether dead The nonnes admired at the noueltie of the chance and desiring to know the cause therof prayed the holy virgin that shee wold reueale the same vnto them But shee as one prudent and silent wold neuer tell it vntill some dayes being passed her good Angell commanded her to tell it and then shee sayde the cause mothers that you sawe in me such noueltie in that rapt was for that being in it I sawe my good Angell with sad countenance And I asking him the cause he sayde that our Lord had shewed him the great persecutious wearinesses and infirmities which were to come vpon me and that he hauing prayed for me The Angells to shew sad countenance and to weep is a speach which the holy scripture vseth as in the 33. chapter of Isaias more by similitude then by propriet●e for an Angell although he appeare in corporall forme and visible to men doth neither weep nor eat nor speake nor exercise any vitall operation according to S. Thom. 1. p. q. 51. a. 3. for to Worck properly these things which are vitall actions he should be the soule of the same body in which he appeareth and as the forme therof animate it

with other persons she saide happy tydings salute me with happy tydings And this she saide with such alacritie that those which stood there iudged that her celestiall spouse adorned now that holy soule with the Iewells of her espousall The blessed maide remained full of that sweet smell and her face most resplendent and her lippes carnatiō redd as corall with such quiet and alacritie as was admirable And so she remained not speaking a word from saturday vntill sunday after euensong the day of the Inuention of the Crosse on which she was borne tooke the habit was professed On this happy day at six of clocke in the euening reading the passion with extraordinarie ioye she gaue vp her soule to her celestiall spouse in the yeare of our Lord one thousād fiue hūdred thirtie foure at fiftie and three yeares of her age at fourtie of her conuersion to the order 9. Those that stood about her remained with much maruaile at the peace quietude and alacritie with which she rendred vp her soule to her Creator the rather for hauing vnderstood by her wordes the great force of her doloures which at that time her many infirmities caused her and the strong conflict which she had with the diuell a thing which our Lord permitted to happen to other Saints as to Saint Martin Saint Hilarion c. that they should see so great noueltie for many houres before her blessed passage when she that before so much complained stood so quiet and the afflicted so merry and ioyfull and that which more is the euill smell of her breath changed into most sweet sauour And although they attribute this to the diuine reuelations the presence of the Saints which she saide came to help her neuerthelesse afterward another cause of these maruailes was knowen by testimonie of another gr●●t seruant of God called Marie of Saint Iohn who at the same time was religious in the conuent of the Conception in the Citty of Almeria very like in virtue and sanctitie to our glorious Ioane and both of them so great frendes that being so farre a sunder they communed together many times in spirite And the proofe which for some of these cases was had doth add more credit to that which this seruant of God testified of the glory of the blessed Ioane the which was this Foure daies after her death she appeared to her compassed about with certaine Saints and Angells and all admiring she asked of her Angell keeper how it came that the mother Sister Ioane of the Crosse appeared to her so much altered and in so different figure to that which at other times she hath done placed in so highe degrees of glory The Angell answeared her that nowe the was losed from the bondes of the flesh and the blessed soule bowing downe they embraced one another and this seruant of God saide to her how now sister thus without me yea sister answered shee for the will of the powerfull God was accomplished and it is now foure daies since I departed this mortall life where I had my Purgatorie and two daies before I expired my soule beganne to feele the ioye of the eternall blisse although to the eies of the people it seemed that I was touched with the paines of the passage of death When notice was had of this reuelation the cause was better vnderstood of the saide change in the seruant of God so many houres before her passage THE XX. CHAPTER Of some miracles which our Lord wrought by the merits of the glorious Ioane by and by after her departure and of the incorruptibilitie and translation of her body 1 SO soone as the B. Ioane was departed out of this life they treated of giuing sepulture to her B. body yet because the concourse and deuotion of the people was so great and the instance so much which they made to see her the religious of the order who assisted at her buriall ordained to giue satisfaction to all that her body should be brought in procession out of the monasterie A cripple comming to touch the holy body kissing the habit remained sound left two crouches with which he wēt Likewise a sicke religious which had a very great swelling and many paines touching the dead body was healed The same succeeded to another man who had a great paine in his teeth The procession in which they carried the holy body to the sepulture returning to the conuent they found messingers with letters from great persons who demanded to haue the buriall differred vntill they should come for they were nowe in the way And so they detained her fiue daies vnburied that most sweet odor of which we haue spoken alwaies proceeding from the dead body 2. The people that came from Madrid from Toledo as also from diuers other places were so many that they couered the fieldes for which cause and for to auoide the disturbance which was great they determined to commit that pretious treasure to the earth burying her without coffin or any thing else of defence that might conserue her entire but rather after they had couered her with earth they cast a great quantitie of water vpon the sepulture as ordinarily the custome is And although it seemeth to haue beene want of consideration and a kinde of rudenesse hauing experienced so great maruaills it was surely a particular instinct of God that so much the better his power might be manifested in that which afterward was seene when the holy body was translated which hauing beene vnder ground seauen yeares at the end wherof very graue Ladies which had beene deuoted to the seruant of God making great instance and inespeciall the Lady Dōna Isabell de Mendoça the wife of Don Gonzalo Chacon Lord of the towne of Casarrubios of the hill consultation was held of placing the bones of the glorious Ioane in a more decent place whose sanctitie and miracles were so notorious wherupō there was made an arche at the right side of the high altar in the wall which diuideth the chancell from the cloister of the monasterie where a hollowe hole was left of two yardes in a highe place and eminent wherin might be contained a gilden chest which the saide Lady Isabell had commanded to be made with two strong grates one of the side of the chapell and another of the side of the cloister that without perill as well the religious as the seculars might enioy of the reliques of the seruant of God 3. This done the sepulture was opened making accoumpt that the body was now resolued into ashes which yet was found so entire so fresh with so sweete a sauour as when it was first buried All being amased at the sight their deuotion encreased and the habit wherwith she had beene enterred was deuided into reliques and they vested her with another of sad colored damask And laying her in the saide chest with great veneration it was put in the place aboue mentioned with the grates of yron very

this bedd this is thy heauen for I am with thee here This saide our Lord disappeared leauing her much comforted although something confounded not knowing whether shee had seene this vision with the eies of her soule or of her body but alwaies shee knew most certainly that it was her redeemer who had appeared and spoken to her and to take from her this doubt he appeared to her the second time as shee herselfe told it Then she remained not only satisfied but much strengthened and with newe courage to suffer the trauailes and paines of all the world for his loue 7. Although our Lord so much cherished his espouse and had adorned her with the signes of his sacred passion yet he still kept her deafe which was in part the cause that she liued in so great sinceritie as she had bene a childe of a yeare old the which was a great discommoditie not only for the religious of the howse but also for other persons abroad which came to communicate with her and to confort them selues who hartely prayed our Lord he would restore her her hearing for the want they had thereof The diuine maiestie heard their praiers appearing to his espouse on the day of S. Clare it being six moneths that he had kept her deaf wherupon she made a maruellous sermō in presence of many people and declaring most great misteries she saide that he had made her deafe for that she should haue her senses and thoughts more recollected vpon the diuine maiestie and on no other thing of the earth and that now it had pleased him to heale her And ending the sermon before she came vnto her senses the glorious S. Peter appeared to her and putting his fingers into her eares and making vpon her the signe of the Crosse he restored her her hearing and shee remained sound the religious giuing much thancks to God for so remarkable a faruour THE XVII CHAPTER Of the great deuotion and compassion which the blessed Ioane had of the soules in purgatorie and of the efficacie of her prayers to our Lord for to deliuer them from the paines which they sufferred 1 THis holy virgin being Abbesse with the desire she had to exercise her religious in the feare of God she told them many things of those which his maiestie reuealed to her concerning his rigorous iudgement the paines of Purgatorie and of hell But it hath seemed conuenient to leaue to relate many of them for although they be very conforme to the doctrine of the Saints and to a great multitude of examples which are found in their bookes yet are they not written in the vulgar tongue nor may goe in all mens hands without speciall declaration That which in rigour is deliuered in such like cases is better explicated in tearmes proper to the schooles then to be vsed in such a booke as this which is written that it may goe in the hands of all of which many will find a rocke of scandall in that which well and piously vnderstood is of much edification as the glorious Saint Gregorie and other holy doctors rightly iudged who of these matters and apparitions of the soules and speciall places where they purged their faultes and of that which had passed with them in diuine iudgmēt set downe so many reuelations made not only to them but to persons so vnequall in sanctitie and credit to the blessed Ioane that they were holden for grieuous sinners and God our Lord did them this great fauour to reueale them these like things that taking heed by others mens harmes they might feare the rigour of his iustice and haue confidence in his diuine mercy 2. With the same desire this blessed Abbesse in the chapters and speaches which she made to her religious did exhort them recounting them many reuelations which she had had of God and with notable spirite saide as followeth when she related them Thincke not sisters that the paines of hell and Purgatorie are but little for by only thinking on that which our Lord doth shew me sometimes my flesh trēbleth and I am driuen euen to the very straites of death She further recounted what passed with a soule when it was taken out of the body aswell with the supreame iudge as with the Angell keeper of the same and in especiall when it heard the terrible sentence of euerlasting glory or paine And although of these things the bookes of the Saints be full and of these apparitions of Christ our Lord in the particular iudgement of euery one which are to be vnderstood not according to his reall presence but according to his efficacie and virtue they are not written here not to giue occasion of erring For the greater declaration therfore of some things heere related of many which are found in the booke of the life of this seruant of God it seemed conuenient to note some of them not because that which I shall note is not most euidently knowen to the learned and to many of those which haue not studied for as much as they are found in euery manuall but because none may haue occasion of errour 3. I say then first that in the houre of death euery one heareth his sentence of condemnation or libertie according as is gathered out of many places of the sacred scripture and out of the holy Fathers as appeareth in Ecclesiasticus in S. Mathew and in S. Luce S. Augustine also affirmeth as much together with Saint Hierom and Saint Bonauenture although concerning the manner and how it ought to be vnderstood there be diuers opinions whereupon Pope Innocent the third wrote at large in his second booke and Landulphus the Carthusian in the fourty six chapter of the third tome Who all relate some cases very like to those which befell to the B. Ioane But where it is said that euery one heareth this sentence of Christ our Lord it ought to bee vnderstood as is alreadie saide not according to his reall presence but according to his efficacie Eccl. 11. Matth. 10. 22. Luc. 16. D. Aug. de ciuit Dei lib. 20. cap. 1. de anima eius origine lib. 2. cap. 4. S. Hierom. in Ioel. cap. 2. S. Bonauent lib. 4. sent dist 20. 1. p. q. 5. 4. The second that as little improprietie it hath to say with the same declaration that the glorious Archangell S. Michaell doth iudge in particular the soules after they are gone out of the bodies as the Church singeth when in his office she saith to God that he constituteth him prince ouer all soules and the same she repreateth in the prose of the Masse of the dead Constitui te principem super omnes animas suscipiendas Signifer sanctus Michael representes eas in Lucem Sanctam 5. The third and most principall which we haue in this matter is that the Saints speake therin after two manners the one according to the Common Lawe which is that ordinarilie is executed and the other according to particular cases which God

reuealeth to them In consequence whereof it is so that there is a common place which is called Purgatorie where regularly the soules are purged with paine correspondent to the faultes which they committed and satisfied not in their life time and there are also particular places where God ordeyneth that they satisfie as teacheth S. Thomas with all the Doctors in especiall S. Gregorie S. Tho. in 4. D. 21. q. 1. a. 1. ad 3. S. Bonau in 4. D. 20. 1. p. q. 6. S. Antonin 3. p. hist. tit 33. § 3. S. Greg. lib. 4. Dialog cap. 40. and 55. 6. Likewise the common opinion is that in Purgatorie neither the Angells nor the diuels doe torment the soules but only the diuine iustice by meanes of the fire of Purgatorie as teach S. Thomas and Scotus with all schoole diuines Yet for all this it is no lesse manifest certaine that sometimes the diuells do torment the soules in Purgatorie as appeareth by a reu●lation made to saint Bernard and is related in the 23. chapter of the first booke of his life and of other reuelations venerable Bead and Dionysius Carthufianus and the maister of sentēces with many others doe make mention S. Thom. lib. 2. sent D. 6. a. 6. ad 3. and lib. 4. D. 20. a. 5. Scotus 4. sent D. 44. q. 3. Beda lib. 3. hist. Angliae cap. 19. 7. The fourth thing that concerneth the terriblenesse and duration of the paines of Purgatorie and the great valour of the suffrages of the Church and intercession of the iust we find in many of the Saints bookes some things very great and of greater note then that which hath beene reuealed to this B. virgin Saint Thomas pondereth the greatnesse of the paines and saint Vincent Ferer affirmeth that a soule was suffering these most grieuous paines a yeare for one veniall sinne and to the same it was reuealed that his Sister Francis Ferrer was in Purgatorie condemned to the paines therof vntill the end of the world from which within fewe dayes she was free by the prayers and masses of her holy Brother Dionysius Carthus de iudicio particulari Magist senten lib. 4. D. 44. S. Thom. 3. p. q. 46. a. 6 3. sent D. 15 q. 2. a. 3. S. Vincent serm de aqua benedicta in vita eius 8. Cesarius in his Dialogues recounteth of an other soule which was condemned to purgatorie for two thousād yeares Iohn Heralt in his fortie first sermon of the deceased soules doth say that some soules haue beene condemned for one thousand yeares And in his examples he recounteth of a religious which was condemned to the paines of Purgatorie vntill the day of iudgement because he accomplished his penances coldly and slackly And Saint Bede Richard de S. Victore and Belarmine affirme the same of others Beda hist. Angliae lib. 5. cap. 3. Belarm tom 1. de Purgatorio libro 2. And although other authors do limit this very much iudging that at most a soule may be in Purgatorie for the space of ten yeares yet they deserue not so rigorous cēsure as those who impugne it affirming it contrarie to the doctrine of the Saints for the one part speaketh according to the iust condemnation in respect of the faultes and the other of that which seemeth to them in respect of the many suffrages of the Church which continually are made for the soules in Purgatorie 9. This supposed the holy Abbesse perswaded her nonnes much to feare the paines of Purgatorie and to be very deuote to the Archangell Saint Michaell whom in spirite she had seene i●dge the soules and that whē he condēned any soule to hell We paint the Archangell Saint Michaell with a waieght and a sword in his hand declaring by this painting the power wherwith he iudgeth pōdereth and measureth the merites and demerites of the soules Iohannes Molanus in historia sanctar imaginum lib. 2. cap. 28. Viegas in Apocalypsim cap. 12. tom 1. sect 17. num 5. sect 18. num 7. Iohan. Eckius homil 8. de sancto Michaele other Angells did singe O Lord of maiestie how full of mercy is thy iustice we blesse and adore thee for it and that they cursed the soules condemned to hell that others were the executors of the diuine iustice vpon those which went to Purgatorie as S. Hierom and S. Augustine doe affirme S. Hier. in Dani. cap. 7. S. Aug. de ciuit Dei lib. 9. cap. 5. She saide also that the Angells keepers carry the soules to Purgatorie and comfort them as the Saints do say to many of whom our Lord hath permitted that soules which were in paine should appeare S. Bonauen lib. 4. sent dist 2. in 1. p. q. 5. that in their praiers they might be commended and that others in spirite might see Purgatorie and the rigorous paines which in so many manners the soules did there suffer S. Thom. ibi dist 21. q. 1. a. 1. that they might recount them to the liuing and taking pitty vpon them they might beware by others harmes The same happened to the B. Ioane many times and among others being sacristian and ringing one night to martines she heard very sorrowfull grones as of some person that bewailed and asking of her Angell keeper what voices those were he saide They are of a soule in great necessitie which by the licence of God commeth to commend it selfe by thy prayers This was the soule of a great Lady of Castile who died a little before which said to B. Ioane that in as much as her paines were most grieuous she entreated her she would cōmend her to God and also to pray her mother to helpe her with certaine almes masses of these cases many happened to her and she said that she sawe in purgatorie certaine places darke most fearfull and filthie and the diuells which very cruellie tormented some soules to the which for euery fault they gaue different paines and that the soules gaue many grones saying woe to vs which had time to serue God and did not do it now we are tormented and contrition auaileth vs not nor repentance 10. I sawe by the will of God said she on a time to her religious the soule of a certaine Prelate in purgatorie which suffered much paine and I demanding the cause therof of my holy Angell he saide to me that that soule was of a prelate which for hauing beene carelesse of the soules of his subiects suffered great paines for the faultes he did in the seruice of God and for those which his subiects did by his occasion and euill example 11. This blessed woman knewe that a certaine Ecclesiasticall person of whom herselfe had receiued particular aggrieuances of much authoritie was dead And as she was a friend of doing good for euill she did not cease to pray to God to haue mercie of his soule making therfore her prayer for him he appeared to her one night in a figure very fearfull filthie He bare in his mouth a gagge