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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10206	The life of the holy and venerable mother Suor Maria Maddalena De Patsi a Florentine lady, & religious of the Order of the Carmelites. Written in Italian by the Reuerend Priest Sigr. Vincentio Puccini, who was sometymes her ghostly father. And now translated into English.; Vita di Santa Maria Maddalena de Pazzi. English	Puccini, Vincenzio.; Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655.	1619 (1619)	STC 20483; ESTC S101534	127,169	365

perswade her Note that she should not adore the B. Sacrament that God was not there Nay many tyms she found extreme difficulty to receaue it for drawing neere to the little window to communicate she remayned as it were depriued of all sense and to her seeming the Diuell would stand there being resolued to kill her Besides he cast it into her thought as if there were no other life but this and therefore there was no cause why she should labour and indure so much Sometyms she came to so great aridity of spirit that she was scarce able to looke vpon the sacred Images and pictures Oftentimes the Diuel tempted her to blaspheme God and the Saints and chiefly when with the rest of her Sisters she was singing the diuine Office in the Quire at that time she heard such blasphemyes pronounced in her eares and such horrible outcryes of Diuells that seeming to her by great odds to exceed the voyces of her Sisters she had much difficulty to comply with her obligations Whereupon weeping often for grief in great aboundance she turned to her Sisters saying Pray to Iesus for me that in steed of praying him I blaspheme him not and the Religious were moued to much compassion by seeing this blessed soule so afflicted in the spirit of deuotion For this reason the Ghostly Father was often forced to communicate her alone that more easily she might ouercome those tentations But hardly was she fortifyed sufficiently euen by that heauenly food for the tentations would occure againe with greater fury the Diuell indeauouring to perswade her that she had lost the diuine grace and therefore that the custome of communicating did her no good but rather that the Iustice of God was prouoked so much the more to her punishment And thus she became byond all conceit full of dolour only thought how she might carry her selfe in those fierce assaults In the midst of these cogitations it came once into her mind to vse a remedy which against tentations she had learned of the B. Virgin And it was that going to Mother Prioresse she prayed her with great instance to command her by holy Obedience that she should not forbeare the holy Communion and the exercises of the Monastery and that she should punctually obserue that manner of life which had beene prescribed to her by God Now Mother Prioresse to content her commanded her to do all by holy Obedience And it cannot be exprest with how great deuotion and humility she answered to euery particle of that which was imposed in these words Benedictus Deus adding further I will indeauour with the help of Iesus to do all that you haue imposed This solemne sacrifice of her will was so gratefull to God that afterwards he raysed her to many Rapts and her hart became in the midst of so many temptations to be full of tranquility ioy The Diuell affl●ct●th her with impure temptations The remedyes which she vsed against them The B. Virgin couereth her with a white veile so as she was no more troubled The Diuell procureth to delude her in the forme of a Religious woman CHAP. 26. ON the eight of September in the same yeare 1587. she was assaulted by a continuall sight of Diuells and by entising tentations of sense her Chastity was fiercely set vpon but she remembring that which S. Bennet had done vpon a like occasion going into a roome where the wood was kept and there hauing first bolted the doore she gathered togeather rugged sticks and thornes she tumbled therein so long stark naked Note that the paine serued to quench that diuellish fire Sometimes she would afflict her with disciplines of iron and girde her selfe about with a most terrible girdle which in coursest canuas she had imbrodered with piercing nayls in such sort that in truth the only sight thereof maketh them shrinke and euen tremble who looke vpon it But this being found by the Mistres she was commanded not to vse either that or any other so rigorous mortifications without expresse licence which she punctually obserued from that tyme forward In exchange thereof she had recourse by ardent prayers to the most diuine assistance par●iculerly confiding in the intercession of the B. Virgi● to whom praying one day with abundant tears that she would inable her to ouercome all impure tentations without any spot to her virginity the Queene of Heauen appeared to her al enuironed about with eternall glory told her that in those so sharp battailes she had neuer offended his diuine Maiesty nay that with hauing fought so valiantly she had euer obteyned glorious victory And then she couered her all ouer with a most pure white veyle wherewith she found her selfe interiourly to be as it were restrayned bound in token that from thēceforth she should neuer more be assaulted with tentations of Sense as in deed it happened for in all the course of her life she was neuer troubled more in that kind nor euer felt in her mind so much as any one impure imagination On the same day she was surprised by a burning feuer with payne in her head and backe which afflicted her for twenty dayes Notwithstanding this she neuer forbare the exercise of the Monastery but was much more kindled towards the vse of holy prayer to which now she gaue her selfe in extraordinary manner Whereupon being rapt in excesse of mind she vnderstood from her Iesus that her sicknes proceeded not from naturall causes but was otherwise permitted by the will of God for her greater glory and probation The Diuell in the meane tyme enuying her so great good and being enraged that he could not ouercome her made her fall sometims down the stairs sometimes in the Quire and sometimes in other places but the seruant of God supporting all for the loue of Iesus was not at all hurt by it but taking courage to her selfe she rose vp fitter for new battailes Besides this in the midst of those feruent prayers which oftentimes he sent vp to heauen she found her selfe to be much bitten as by venemous serpents it seemed vnto her that the parts of her body were cut off by inches and being forced by these accidents she fell downe to the ground where it was necessary for her to stay a good while with much payne not being able to moue any way and partly by her continuall feuer and partly because she susteyned her self with only bread water she was weakned in such sort that it seemed she must ●nstantly faint and sowne For this cause by Obedience which was imposed vpon her by her Superiours she was cōmanded for three weeks togeather to take towards the recouery of her strength all kind of nutriment excepting flesh Which being done and she hauing recouered a little force she instantly returned to her former life But the Diuells forgot not to afflict her with new tentations that so they might discourage her from austerity by putting thus great doubtes into her