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A18332	The life of B. Aloysius Gonzaga of the Society of Iesus eldest sonne of Ferdinand Prince of the S.R. Empire, and Marques of Castilion. Written in Latin by the R. Fa. Virgilius Ceparius of the same society. And translated into English by R.S.	Cepari, Virgilio, ca. 1563-1631.; Stanford, Robert, attributed name.; R. S., gent.	1627 (1627)	STC 4912; ESTC S117299	267,919	562

merits 9. The same man when as being wounded in his brest with many blowes of stones he vomited bloud made a vow to B. Aloysius immediately the bloud stanched within two dayes he was confirmed professed himselfe to be behoulding to the Beatus 10. Bartholomeus Melliarinus had in the night a certaine suddaine swelling of the bignesse of a mans fist that grew vnder his eare which hindred him from swallowing any thing almost from drawing his breath He made a vow to B. Aloysius and at the very same moment his payne intermitted his swelling assuaged by breake of day he came to me without any signe of disease and rendred thankes to the Beatus 11. Franciscus Smarallius hauing a troblesome paine in his knee was grieuously tormented and in respect of the feeblenesse of his sinnewes not able to moue himselfe out of his bed he obliged himselfe by vow vnto B. Aloysius Forth with his knee breaking he leaped out of his bed and the day after being altogether recouered made a iourney of 7. miles to Desenzano 12. A little sonne of one Petrus Pilou● being an infant of no more then 30. moneths old was towly deformed by the shrincking of his sinnews in the one side of his body being troubled with a frothy foame in his mouth was giuen ouer by the Phisitian His Father made a vow B. Aloysius straightway it manifestly appeared that he was much better and shortly recouered 13. The daughter of one Dominicus Ferrarius by reason of a swelling that was in her throat was able to take no sustenance When afterward her Father had in the night made a vow in her behalfe to B. Alnysius his daughter before day rose out of her bed tooke meat without any sensible difficulty 14. Lelia the wife of Franciseus Ghirddus was so grieuously handled that hauing no ability to take meat she was in euident danger of death But she about seauen of the clocke in the night making a vow to B. Aloysius found herselfe about the tenth houre wholy restored to her health 15. Stephen Benedict a Doctour being Oppressed with a troublesome distillation which no humane medicine was able to remedy promising by vow an offering of siluer by the recommendation of B. Aloysius obtained help and good health 16. Hortensius Bonus seized with a redious disease moreouer being seized vpon with a bloudy flux was by the Phisitian deplored He vowed vnto B. Alaysius a silu●● statua and presently was wonderfully eased His disease ceased his flux diminished he came forward very much in his health and in a short time wholy recouered it 17. Gothardus Alexandrinus hauing bene trobled 3. moneths with a Tertian ague that very day which ic was to come made a vow to B. Aloysius And he afterward neuer hauing any more fits therof was well 18. Angelus the wife of Franeiscus Ceradello being continually for 22. whole dayes togeather tormented with intollerable griefe● about her hart was in feare of her life Scarcely had she made a vow to B. Aloysius but that her paine remitted and vanished 19. A child of one Peter Bosius being of the age of 3. yeares surprised with sicklesse lay at the very point of death His Father obliged him by vow vnto B. Aloysius the next morning he tooke his meate no otherwise then if he had bene in perfect health 20. A child of one Bartholome● 〈◊〉 being but one yeare old falling out of his bed was reputed little lesle then dead His Father deuoutly inuocated B. Aloysius In a moment the infant was well laughed and made meanes for the pap 21. Antony Ferronius had bruised his back and stomake with a grieuous burthen neither was he capable of any rest at all He went to the holy Church and making a vow to B. Aloysius contrary to all expeotation departed from thence perfectly recouered 22. Joannes Lacobus Giroldus being afflicted with a long and tedious feuer so soone as he found the same increased made a vow to B. Aloysius and without all delay it departed and neuer after returned 23. Joannes Antonius Morattus hauing vsualiy beene tormented with a paine and swelling in his right tigh knee and foot after he perceaued the same paine once or twice to be renewed he offered vp his praiers to B. Aloysius for his fauour and presently found ease 24. The wife of Julius Fainus being not able to be deliuered of her child was supposed by the midwife to be at the point of death Hauing made a vow to B. Aloysius she was presently deliuered both of the child and from all danger 25. The wife of one Valerius Factorius being sick of a difficult disease in her throat was recouered thereof the very day that she with her prayers inuocated B. Aloysius 26. Catharine the wife of one Ambrosius Notarius was very much tormented with a Sciatica and had attempted all humane helps in vaine She made a vow to B. Aloysius and began to mend she performed her vow and yet notwithstanding was not absolutely cured To conclude the fourth day the obtained a perfect recouery 27. Christopher Saxius was continually for the space of a whole yeare sicke of a feuer His mother one day made a vow for him to B. Aloysius the next night following he was freed 28. Baptista Fezzardus hauing his hand and arme disioynted and swelled was likewise in a feuer not without payne and danger of cōuulsion of his sinews Hauing made a vow to B. Aloysius his paine was mittigated his infirmity wore away and shortly he was recouered 29. Martha the wife of Paulus Bettius being in difficult labour of Child-birth inuocated B. Aloysius presently she was deliuered and obtained her safety 30. A child also of three yeares old of this Paulus Bettius had bene sicke a whole moneth his neck being sore and swolne like a wenne his Father making a vow to B. Aloysius he was made soūd within two dayes 31. Anthonius Serlius had bene more then 3. yeares troblesomely afflicted in his thighs making a vow to B. Aloysius he found case and not long after was perfectly sound 32. The wife of one Andreas Pedercinus was not able to bring forth the child that she went with she made a vow to B. Aloysius and presently was deliuered 33. Petrus Cattaneus a very reuerend man and Priest of a certaine parish-Church was incredibly tormented with a malignant fouer an inflamed phrensy and a swelling paine and rednesse of his head so that it seemed to be scorched round about and was now quite distracted of his senses But so soone as hi● mother had made a vow for him to B. Aloysius he returned to himselfe and enioyed afterward good health 34. Martha the wife of Ioannes Iacobu● Fezzardus hauing bene vexed for the space of foure whole moneths with paine and very sharpe aches in her feet had no sooner by vow rendred B. Aloysius propitious vnto her but that she began to amend and perfectly to recouer her samenesse 35. Martha the wife of one Ioseph Balarinus

affections and he shewed by very pregnāt signes to be affectionately carrryed towards that glory whither his Fathers incouragement and example called him The refore it often fell out that medling both with other weapons and especially with peeces of ordinance he did much indanger himselfe had not God who reserued him to a more holy kind of life in a manner aboue the course of nature diuerted him Surely of this a testimony was giuen when once in shooting off a small gunne he fouly besmeared all his face with the hoat-burning steame of the powder Another tyme when in the summer the Marques about noone-tyde tooke his repose he which you would wonder at in one of so small age hauing no ones helpe thereunto casting certaine powder which he had gathered out of the souldiers purses whilst they tooke their none-sleepe into a litle peece of ordinance which stood before the Castle-walls and putting fire therto escaped very narrowly frō being ouerthrown with the violent recoyling of the carriagewheeles flying backward The Marques being roused with the suddaine noise fearing least some mutiny had byn risen amongst the souldiers sent one to discouer what vnwonted insolency this was When he had vnderstood the whole matter he would haue corrected his sonne had not the souldiers who were very much delighted with the great-vndertaking spirit of the child begged his pardon These and other preseruations of the like kind he was wont after when he liued amongst religious persons often to recount as testimonies of the singular goodnesse of Almighty God towardes him by whose assistance he had escaped so great dangers Neyther as then was he quite voyd of scruple for that litle powder which he had so purloyned from the Souldiers had he not extenuated it with that comfortable opinion that the Souldiers would most willingly haue bestowed it vpon him if he had asked it of them The Marques being to go with his forces to Tunis sendeth back Aloysius to Castilion where he continued the same course of lyfe which he vndertooke at Cassall And as for the most part these common souldiers are giuen to licentious and dishonest speaches he likewise by consorting with them had learned some such like kind of talke which he not knowing the meaning thereof did sometymes vtter as afterward he gaue account to F. Hierome Platus when he inquired of him his whole course of life which he lead in the world being now consecrated to Religion This when vpon a certaine tyme Peter-Francis Turctus had vnderstanding of who as we haue said before was Tutour to him in his childhood he did so vehemently inueigh agaynst it that as the selfe same Tutour after affirmed vnto me he neuer after was obserued to vtter any other then honest and decent speaches Yea and more then that when afterward he heard any one speaking debausly he would straight way with a modest coūtenance with his eyes cast downe to the ground or turned some other way eyther seeme to diuert his mynd or signify that the words were troublesome to him to heare Wherby we may vnderstand that he would neuer haue vsed these kind of speaches if he had first knowne what their meaning had beene But in the whole course of Aloysius his life I find no sinne committed by him which was more culpable then were these wordes pronoūced by him being a very child and ignorant what the things signifyed by thē should be Which so soone as he vnderstood that they were vitious and disgracefull to his degree calling so great a shamefastnes ceased vpon him as he afterward acknowledged that he could scarcely persuade himselfe to vnfould them to the Priest that was inquisitour of his Conscience Neyther truly did the penitency of this fault which seemed so great vnto him euer forsake him during his life And as he had committed nothing worse that his cōscience accused him of so after he came into Religion to the intent that for the ouercōming and vilifying of himselfe he might shew himselfe guilty of frailty from his very child-hood he would often recount to certaine of his familiar friendes these kind of passages It is not vnlike that God vpon set purpose suffered this kind of blemish to stick close by him that whilst he thought that to be a fault in himselfe which in respect of the ignorance of his childish age and of the thing it selfe is more probable was none in the middest of so many heauenly guifts and vertues with the which his mind was afterward enriched from God he might haue some matter of humiliation and that as S. Gregory wrot of S. Benedict quem in ingressu mundi posuerat retraheret pedem That he might pull back that foote which he had newly set into the world CHAP. IV. How he behaued himselfe from the seauenth till the eight yeare of his age BVt when he attained the seauenth yeare of his age which seemeth vnto Aristotle the holy Doctours to be ripe for reasonable discourse and euen for vertue or vice he conuerted himselfe with so much feruour to the seruice of God and did so wholy consecrate himselfe vnto him that he was wont afterward to call that the time of his conuersion He could therfore to those fathers who were the reformers of his life vnto whome he vnfoulded the secret of his hart that he esteemed this amongst one of the most especial benefits of Almighty God towards him that from the very seauenth yeare of his age he was conuerted to God from the loue of the world Now with what an assistance of celestiall guifts euen now from the first tyme that he began to haue the vse of reason Almighty God did eyther preuent or second all his endeauours may be manifest heerby in so much as foure Priests who in diuers places and at diuers tymes tooke his Confessions euen those which contained the discouery of his whole life both before and after his entrance into the Society and amongst these Robert Bellarmine that most illustrious Cardinall who at his death heard the confession of his whole life all of them allthough ignorant of ech others testimony did with one consent set downe in writing that he neuer committed so much as one deadly sinne or lost the grace of God which he obtayned in Baptisme The which thing is so much the more to be admired for that he passed the most vnstable part of his age not in Monasteries and sacred Cloisters of Religious men in which in respect of the small occasions of sinne or the supply of so great company of men deuoted to God both for holy conuersation and the help of ones mind it is a great deale easier to preserue the grace of God then in a vulgar course of liberty but he euen from his very cradle beganne to cōuerse in Princes courts For besides that time in which he was borne bred vp in his Fathers house he spent many yeares after with the Duke of Florence the Duke of Mantua and the King of