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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

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kinsfolkes weeping bewayling the losse of so deare a friend The holy Father exhorted all present to kneele downe with him implore the helpe of the B. Virgin for the sicke man presently they did as he willed and he in the meane space laid his hands vpon his head which done he went his way out of the house the others either not seeing him to depart orels not marking the same being all full of griefe and sorrow But see a wonder he was scarse gone but the sicke man began to opē his eyes looke about him and talke as ready and sensibly as euer he did in his health saying he was well and would needes rise out of his hed soūding forth praises to God and extolling the holines of S. Philip by whose helpe and assistāce he had recouered his health he liued after this vntill the yeare of our Lord 1593. cōtinually praysing God and the How Father for the miracle The like happened vnto one Peter Victricius a Cittizen of Parma in the yeare of Christ 1566. who liuing then in Rome fell into a dangerous sicknes which so increased that the Phisirians gaue him ouer for a dead mā In this meane time came the holy Father vnto him to comfort and assist him for his last passage who holding his hands ouer him and praying earnestly to God for his health he presently felt himselfe better and within a dayor two became perfectly well extolling and praysing the sanctity of S. Philip. The same yeare Iohn Baptista Crescius a yong man of Rome had such an intollerable paine in his eyes by reason of a burning water which ran from them that he could neither endure the light or the ayre or take any rest or repose for many dayes wherby he was in danger of his life the Phisitians determined to make him an issue in his necke but he not willing to haue it desired an vncle of his to lead him to the holy Father Philip which he did desiring him that it would please him to pray to God for his Nephew that he might recouer the health of his eyes The holy man presently touched his eyes with his hands making the signe of the Crosse vpon them and said Thou shalt my Sonne by Gods helpe recouer thy eyes presently he began to open them see persectly could endure the light which before he could not and so within two or three dayes he became perfectly well without applying any thing at all thereunto In the yeare 1569. Laurētius Christianus a yong man and a Clerke of S. Peters Church fell into a burning feuer which was so vehement that in few dayes he was pronounced for dead by the Phisitians Wherfore hauing made his Confessiō receaued deuoutly the holy Eucharist and Sacrament of Extreme Vnction hauing wholy lost his senses he expected the happy houre of his departure The holy Father came to visit him about one a Clocke in the night who hauing asked of the standers by how he did vnderstāding that he was past hope of recouery kneeled downe by his bed side and prayed a good while for his health And then rising he said Laurence shall not die of this sicknes and drawing neere vnto him laying his hands vpon his head he called vpon him by his name with a very loud voyce Wherwith the man that was now ready to giue vp the ghost was awaked began to start and opening his eyes after a little pause called for meate eate well and within a few houres arose whole safe from his bed praysing God and extolling the holy Father In the morning the Phisitian was called and feeling his pulse found him perfectly cured saying O Laurence a greater Phisitiā thē my selfe hath cured thee thou hast not bene holpen by humane but by diuine ayde In the yeare of our Lord 1570. there came to Rome from Atella a certaine Gentle woman who was grieuously possessed by the diuell and though she were wholy vnlearned yet did she speake latin and that very elegantly and being also asked any thing in latin she would also answere in the same tongue to the astonishment of all that heard her Moreouer she was so strong that foure lusty men could scarce take her from the ground and lift her vp although she seemed in outward shew to be a very weake and tender woman She was brought vnto S. Philip who began to exorcize her after a strang manner yet in such sort that he made the diuell within a while to forsake her and this was that he beate her very sorely with little iron chaines And though the Diuell cried out a loud saying come beate me strike me kill me and the like yet did the woman not so much as once stir or moue her body all the while but stood still like a statua of stone or wood Which the holy man perceauing left her for that time caused her body to be refreshed with food Vpon this she became so fearfull of S. Philip that when she did but see any one to come towards her she suspected they would carry her to him to be againe exorcized which alwayes they were forced to doe with foure strong mē S. Philip euery day caused her to be thus beaten together with other exorcismes that he vsed till he forced the Diuell to depart out of her body who the night after he was cast out came to the holy Father in his chāber and with threatning eyes burst forth into these words You Sirra you good fellow you haue vsed your pleasure vpon me to day but I will not forget the iniury and so vanished away and the Gentle woman remayned alwayes free afterward to her dying day Whiles the fame of this holy man was spread ouer the Citty for his many miracles and other notable things by him done he had many secret and malignant aduersaries who enuying his workes of piety began to spread abroad some falsities of the man and his life Some accused him that he drew many noble yong youthes from the world and shut them vp in Cloisters Others accused him of simplicity and rudenes Others that in his sermons exhortations he either spake many ridiculous thinges or els did fayle in explicatinge the Doctrine of the Church aright These thinges at last came vnto the eares of Pius Quintus the Pope who being a wise Pastour of his flocke did not so easily belieue euery thing that was said But sending for two Dominican Friars that were very learned commaunded them to goe euery day vnto the Church to heare the Sermons and Exercises which S. Philip made and to relate vnto him truly how the matter went They did accordingly and being one of them present euery day for a long time they neuer found the least fault nor cause of complaint but contrary wise found him to speak with such force efficacy and feruour of spirit that he moued all the Anditory of what matter soeuer he spake Nay which is more when either he handled any
he had done pennance But besides these God Almighty by intercession of this Saint both before and after his happy death wrought many miracles which are to be seene more at large in the Relation out of which this summe is taken and in other histories of his life I will heere only rehearse some few of them for our better instruction and further declaration of his sanctity And first his great charity zeale in procuring the saluation of soules was miraculously confirmed in that when a certaine man whose name was Lissanus for being cast in a suite of law and hanged himselfe and was by all mens iudgment stone dead he by his prayers obtayned of God Almighty so much time for him to line againe that might serue his turne to be sorry for his sinnes and to confe●●e them to a Priest and receaue Absolution Secondly to increase our deuotion to holy Reliques that may suffice which happened to Bartholomew Contesti a Chirurgeon and Cittizen of Maiorca who was so tormented with a continual headach that for vehemency of the paine he was diuerse times forced to fal dowen to the very ground And besides this he had so grieuous a disease in one of his eyes that being vnable to behold the least glimpse of light he was fayne to be shut vp in a darke chamber eating no meat but what others put into his mouth As many and sundry medicines were applied as could be deuised but all in vaine for his disease still waxed worse and worse In so much that Bartholomew out of the intollerable paine he felt was not afraid to protest if a certaine Chirurgeon whose name was Pastor were aliue that he would cause him to placke out his eye by the very roote But as he lay now in this pittifull estate hearing by good chaunce of the manifold miracles that were euery where wrought by the intercession of S. Ignatius with great deuotion and hope of recouery by this meanes he desired that they would bring him one of his subscriptions or writings of his owne hand which was no sooner brought vnto him but he found himselfe well without all paine either of head or eyes rising out of his bed and beholding the light of the sunne with great ease and pleasure And that he might be the better assured that this so sudaine a cure was to be attributed to the diuine power and to the intercession of this seruant of God S. Ignatius for two or three seuerall times the Relique was no soner taken away out of his chamber but his former paine returned vnto him and the same Relique was no sooner brought backe againe into the chamber but his paine left him So that Bartholomew was aduised to keepe the Relique alwayes about him thus within three or foure dayes he came to be so perfectly well as if he had neuer bene sicke In Rome a Lady called Drusilla Tursellina being very much vexed with a vehement seuer and with the head-ach hauing vsed many remedies and bene let blood in her armes nostrills and head without profit her sicknes rather increasing euery day was presently healed by a relique of one of the Blessed Fathers bones laid vpon her forehead Another woman named Olimpia Norina had such a vehemēt paine in her eyes that she came to loose her sight for the space of three moneths had such a cōtinuall ague paine in her head that she could notrest They brought her a subscription of the Blessed Fathers hand at the time that her paine was at the greatest laying it vpon her forehead and eyes she began to see and was ryd of her ague and paine In the same Citty in the yeare 1597. a noble mans child of seauen yeares old called Hierome Gabriell being sick of a pestilent seuer called a Taberdillo and of a plurisy hauing also the wormes so that there was little hope of his life was healed with the same subscription of the Blessed Father In the yeare 1599. the Lady Ioane Vrsina being but a child daughter to Cornelia Vrsina Duchesse of Cesi had so great a cough that she could scarcely breath or suck The Dutches her mother commēded her very earnestly and deuoutly to blessed Father Ignatius and beseeched him to obtaine the health of her daughter wherevpon the child hauing bene a night and a halfe without rest presently fell a sleepe and her cough ceased she began to sucke her Nurses breast For which cause the Dutches commaunded a Tablet to be set on the Fathers graue in remembrance of the fauour she had receiued In the same yeare 1599. Angella Ruggiera was troubled with an extraordinary noise in her head for almost a yeare and lost the hearing of her right eare wherto applying a relique of the Blessed Father and making a vow to fast with bread and water the day of his departure and to communicate the day following recouered perfect health and remayned free from that infirmity In the Citty of Naples in the moneth of Iune of the yeare 1599 Donna of Aragon Princesse of Beltran Dutchesse of Terra-noua had a great payne and swelling in her right breast and finding no remedy amongst many which were applied in the space of foure moneths omitting them all as vnprofitable and laying vpon her breast with much deuotion the picture of the Blessed Father she became well the same day and comming to Rome the last Holy yeare of 1600. commaunded a tablet of siluer with foure great waxe Tapers to be set vpon the Blessed Fathers tombe on Easter day in thanksgiuing In the Citty of Nola the yeare 1599. in the moneth of Nouēber a knight named Francis Blasius being much vexed with a pestilent ague and with a grieuous paine in his head and stomack so that in the iudgement of the Phisitians he was in danger of his life his mother Zenobia Tolphia exhorted him to lay a relique of the bone of Blessed Father Ignatius to his head and to commend himselfe vnto him desiring his fauour He did so and remayned free frō all his paines and his whole sicknes In the Citty of Lecha which is in the Prouince of Apulia in the Kingdome of Naples a child of three yeares old sonne to the Barō of Belli-boni fell from his Nurses armes vpon the ground and did notably hurt his right knee which grew euery day worse because the Nurse for feare concealed the fall and it went so far that it was necessary to open the childs knee oftener then once this helped not wherfore cōming to cut it the third time the Father fearing his Sonnes death whome he did see consumed with the wound and with the ague which followed thervpon went to the Colledge of the Society and there they gaue him a Relique of the Blessed Fathers bone which he laid vpon the child before they opened his knee the third time and whē the Surgeons came to doe it they found him much better and within a few dayes altogether well I will conclude with one more