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A07467	The admirable history of the posession and conuersion of a penitent woman Seduced by a magician that made her to become a witch, and the princesse of sorcerers in the country of Prouince, who was brought to S. Baume to bee exorcised, in the yeare 1610, in the moneth of Nouember, by the authority of the reuerend father, and frier, Sebastian Michaëlis, priour of the couent royall of S. Magdalene at Saint Maximin, and also of the said place of Saint Baume. Who appointed the reuerend father, Frier Francis Domptius, Doctor of Diuinity, in the Vniuersity of Louaine, ... for the exorcismes and recollection of the acts. All faithfully set down, and fully verified. Wherunto is annexed a pneumology, or discourse of spirits made by the said father Michaëlis, ... Translated into English by W.B.	Michaelis, Sébastien, 1543?-1618.; W. B., fl. 1613-1617.	1613 (1613)	STC 17854; ESTC S107052	483,998	666

transgression the most seuerely threatned and auenged This doctrine is the decision of Saint Thomas who concludes that if a man suffer death for any vertue whatsoeuer it is a true Martyrdome And he all eageth the example of Saint Iohn Baptist who was a true Martyr in that hee did defend continency against the incestuousnesse of Herode In like manner was that good Monke declared by a Councell to be a Martyr because in running betwixt two fencers to part them hee was slaine by them Saint Chrysostome doth precisely say that he which may be healed of some malady by inchantments and refuseth all such helpe least he might offend God and had rather dye then haue the vse of the same in this case saith he he is a Martyr Furthermore Cardinall Caietane commenting vpon the aboue-cited article of Saint Thomas saith that if a man bee slaine to auoid a veniall sinne that death is a Martyrdome for it chanced vnto him because he would not offend God and because hee desired to support vertue Those that would play the Philosophers and say the deceased King called not on the name of God in the last period of his life let them know that he might do that so suddenly and secretly that none about him might perceiue it much lesse vnderstand it How easily might he lift vp his heart and inward parts vnto God and that in a moment of time especially for that his precedent desire might minister quicke assistance heereunto because that day hee powred out his prayers vnto God more particularly and for a longer space then he accustomed to do Besides that honorable company which were with him in his Caroche do shew that hee went not surcharged with any wicked proiect or purpose THE VII DOVBT It tendeth litle to edification where it is said that the blessed Sacrament was troden vnder feet ANSWERE I Haue cleered this very largely in the Epistle to the Reader Besides the myracle which followed thereupon did much condemne Sorcerers and tended to the edification of good Christians It was further necessary to touch vpon this pointe as well for the integrity of this History as also because the said prophanation was already published and all the hereticke ministers of Xaintogne and Languedoc made their best aduantages from the same as may be seene in the said Epistle The But and aime of this History is to declare how much God is offended with such vnhallowed and sacrilegious persons as will appeare through the whole frame and body of this History I should desire that the historians in such cases would imitate the sacred Scripture which neuer sets before vs any prophanation of those things that are sanctified but it presently subioynes a miracle as may be seene in the History of the sonnes of Heli and of their death of the Philistins prophaning the Arke and their plagues of the Bethsamites who were too curious to behold it and the fire that fell from heauen vpon them of the two sonnes of Aaron Nabad and Abiud and the fire that went out from their Censers and destroied them of Choran and Dathan taking their Censers and the earth opening vnder them of king Ozias offering incense on the Altar and of the leprosie where with hee was stricken In the new Testament of the prophaners of the Temple and the whippes wherewith they were chased away which Saint Ierome taketh to be a great miracle of Ananias and Saphira and of their sudden death and to come neerer to our purpose of Iudas prophaning the blessed Eucharist and of his death the morrow after with his belly breaking asunder in the middle Saint Paul was well practised in this who when he had told the Corinthians of this prophanation he presently sets before their consideration those that for this cause were dead sick and feeble by the vengeance of the iust iudgement of God And it is a cleere truth that at sundry other times things sacred haue beene made prophane which the holy Ghost passeth ouer in silence because there insued no miracle ●hereupon which when it happeneth may edifie as much or more then the prophanation can giue occasion of scandall The same is held by S. Cyprian and S. Gre●ory in his Dialogues To this purpose may bee alleaged ●he example of the Donatists that gaue the blessed Sa●rament vnto doggs who running presently mad tur●ed vpon them and tore them in peeces As also of him ●ho came in to the city of Be●ith recited in the workes of S. Athanasius and of him of Paris whose markes ●re yet in the Church of Bulliettes in Latine Ecclesia Do●ini Bullientis the blessed Sacrament being throwne ●●to a boyling cauldron Another miracle is to be seene 〈◊〉 the holy Chapel at Diion Besides the blessed Eucha●●st is more prophaned when it entereth into a soule ●●at is polluted with the infections of sinne then it can ●e said to be in this place THE VIII DOVBT How and for what reason did Magdalene by the aduice of her Confessour write one letter to the blessed Virgin and another to the glorious S. Magdalene ANSWERE IT is a very profitable way which our spirituall fathers ● do vse to instruct inure those that haue any know●edge to holy exercises and meditations and by this ●eans they become ready expert therein As a schole-●aster cōmandeth his scholar to write letters to his fa●her or mother to the King or to the Pope not that he would haue the letters sent but that his scholar should ●y this gaine some skil and ability for it is one thing to write and another thing to send a letter So many in our ●ge haue with great deuotion dedicated the epistles of ●heir books to the blessed Virgin not with an intent to send them but to giue contentment to their deuotion As for example the Epistle of the Booke touching cases of conscience made by Frier Benedictus and of the Booke of Euangelical demonstrations vpon the 3. Maries made by another Frier The same was also practised by the Emperour Theodosius who wrote a letter to S. Chrysostome that was dead more then 30. yeeres before which letter is to be seene in Nicephorus Touching the correction of this letter which was made by the Diuell we are to conceiue that he was inforced by God to busy himselfe in the conuersion of Magdalene as is by experience verified vnto vs. There is no difficulty of this for it is apparant that a spirit is more sharpe-sighted and peircing and more particularly familiar with mens faults and imperfections then any man can be either with his owne or with others THE IX DOVBT How the Diuell could pray to God for the conuersion of the Magician presenting to God the Father the merits of the death and passion of his Sonne of the blessed Virgine and of all the Saints of Paradise ANSWERE WHen a good or bad Spirit doth put motions into a man if hee yeeld his consent and doth operate with them

conscience hauing at that time many inspirations Being demanded why the Magician so often opened the window of the refectorie where he abode and that in the midst of Winter he answered because that sometimes their assemblie is held aboue on the top of the house and then hee had commerce with the Witches calling vpon the Diuels for fauour and saying Diabolos venite in adintorium meum being reprooued for his in congruitie of speech he answered that he reported the words of the Magician in the same sort as he pronounced them for he can not speake Latine said he Being demanded wherefore he went so often to the garden next the refectorie hee answered that all the while he stayed at Saint Baume the assemblie of Witches was alwayes held the neerest they could to the place where hee was to the end they might the more easily haue conference with him Being demanded whence it came to passe that eating with vs in the refectorie hee left vpon his trencher all the meate that was giuen him he answered smiling is he a man fit to seede vpon your fish he eates of the flesh of pies which wee bring him from the assemblie inuisible Being demanded why hee walked so often with his head hanging downe hee answered that he then walked with the witches Being demanded wherefore hee being inioyned to lie all night in the holy house could not abide there but a litle while hee answered that it was because the assembly could not be held there which he must of necessity be present at At night at the second exorcisme Belzebub being demanded and adiured to tell how it came to passe that so great a number of Princes were in the body of Magdalene hee answered shee is a Princesse and deserues well to be honoured of Princes Being demanded whether the punishments imposed on the Magician were not of force to bring him to some grieuous disease or to death he answered yes for that he suffered from the head to the foote as if he had been in a continuall fire Notwithstanding out of his great obstinacy hee had demanded whether hee could not liue till the comming of Antichrist to assist him and to whet his rage and malice against Iesus Christ. To which I answered said hee that he could not it being onely in Gods power to effect that neuerthelesse hee should comfort himselfe in this that he did as great iniuries to Iesus Christ as Antichrist himselfe should bee able to doe and greater too but Antichrist cannot be begotten by thee as thou desirest said he for hee shall be borne of a Iewish woman and conceiued far enough from hence Being demanded whether the paines hee indured softned his heart he answered that they rather hardned him the more and that he would be well content to indure all the paines of the damned vpon condition hee might regaine Magdalene There is extant an example hereof in the hardnes of Pharaos heart among the plagues which God sent vpon him Being demanded whether his paines should bee grieuous after his death he answered if he be damned his punishment shall be more heauie then that of Lucifer for with more malice and lesse respect hath he been iniurious to Iesus Christ. The acts of the 30. of Ianuary being Septuagesima Sunday IN the morning Magdalene being willing to present her selfe for confession as shee was wont to father Michaelis Belzebub would not suffer her to kneele but ran diuers times towards the Church doore yet at length the forenamed father imposing on him very grieuous punishments if he suffered her not to confesse Hee replyed impose all these punishments on the Magician who commanded me to doe it and command him also to forbeare me if I shall suffer her to confesse Which when the said father had performed in the vertue of Gods name and the bloud of Iesus Christ Magdalene returned to her selfe and being in her sound and perfect sense made her confession After this at the Masse of father Francis Billet he comted great outrages plucking the Priest by his cope and taking hold of him hee also cryed aloud and hindred his deuotion Being exorcised after the Masse and adiured to yeeld the reason of his vnusuall out-rage hee answered vpon Sunday the Magician endeuoureth to doe the greatest iniury he can to Iesus Christ. Hee came to me this morning and said in despite of God I will vse my greatest rage in the Church this day doe thou the same at the Masse of thine Exorcist He hath confessed to day said he at Acoules and cast forth gentle soft cries as he was taking the confessions and being demanded by the women whose confessions he tooke why he did so he answered that hee found himselfe some-what ill but in very deed his greatest torments were the punishments imposed on him by the Priest Being adiured diuers times in the name of God to shew the meanes how the Magician might be inforced to render back Magdalens obligations he would answere nothing remaining as it were dumbe at last after many grieuous punishments imposed he answered that they should neuer be rendred vnlesse that he were either conuerted or punished by iustice or dead of a naturall death and yet said he after death they cannot be restored neither being buried deepe in the earth Being demanded why hee had not rendred them when hee was commanded by father Michaelis being Priour of the place and Inquisitour of the faith hee answered that Lewes was not subiect to him but to his Bishop Being adiured and commanded to goe to Marseille and to bring the writings thither hee answered that it could not bee done without the consent of the Magician who had them in keeping And further added that in vaine men seeke after those kinde of writings for before they can come to the houses where they are the Diuels conuay them some-where else in vaine also quoth he doe they search after those who are either slaine or wounded for they cast the dead carkases either into the sea or into some riuer neere adioyning and for such as are hurt if the wound bee not deadly they know how to couer and heale it with an oyntment notwithstanding they remaine sick and when the wound is deadly they conuay away the witches some-where else and in this fashion many women are made away if heed were taken of it At night at the entrance of the Exorcismes Belzebub began to torment Magdalene in fearfull manner causing her to tremble euery ioint and making her head to tumble some-while backwards and againe suddenly forward euen to her belly beating the earth with both her hands in so much as they were inforced to put a cushion vpon the ground for her to beat vpon notwithstanding shee still vexed her selfe and this continued for the space of aboue halfe an houre Being adiured to tell why he tormented her so terribly hee answered that it was because shee had submitted her selfe to her superiour Afterwards Belzebub