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A18932	The life of the glorious virgin S. Clare Togeather with the conuersion, and life of S. Agnes her sister. And of another S. Agnes, daughter to the King of Bohemia. Also the rule of S. Clare. And the life of S. Catharine of Bologna. Translated into English.; Chronicle and institution of the order of the seraphicall father S. Francis. Selections	Marcos, de Lisboa, Bishop of Porto, 1511-1591.; Bentley, Catharine, attributed name.; Evelinge, Elizabeth, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 5350; ESTC S121170	48,749	225

hauing none that can comfort me in this life but that I receiue a little consolation from the liberall hand of our Sauiour Iesus Christ which causeth me to beseech you all to giue thankes vnto his diuine maiesty for this fauour and mercy extended towardes me for that through his grace I find such concord peace and charity in this Couent as by wordes cannot be expressed these sisters hauing receiued me with exceeding loue deuotion yielding me Obedience vvith extraordinary promptitude reuerence They all with one accord recommend themselues to our Lord Iesus Christ to you my Sister to all the sisters of the monastery I recommend my selfe them to your holy prayers beseeching you as a mother to be mindfull of them of me as of your daughters know you that they I will all the daies of our life obserue keepe your holy precepts and aduertisements Besides I desire you should know that the Pope hath accorded to whatsoeuer I demaunded of him conformably to your intention myne particulerly in the matter you know to wit that we may not possesse any thing proper I beseech you my most deare mother to procure of the Reuerent Father Generall that he often visit vs to comfort vs in God whose grace be with your spirit Amen Of an extasy of S. Agnes and how S. Clare saw her thrice crowned by an Angell CHAP. III. SAINT Clare in her last sicknes obteyned that her sister Saint Agnes might come to see her in the monastery of S. Damian to keep her company during the few daies she had to liue so S. Agnes bauing left her Couent well grounded in Religion sanctity she came to Assisium where Saint Clare being one night in prayer apart from her sister she neuertheles saw her being also in prayer lifted from the earth an Angell to crowne her thrice with so many seuerall crownes The day following she demaunded of her sister what prayer or contēplatiō she had made the night past but she of humility vnvvilling to manifest her prayer being at length inforced by Obedience made her this relation I considered the great goodnes and patience of Almighty God wherby he supporteth such enormous offēces of sinners which I considered with a deep sorrow and compassion then I thought and yet doe thinke of the loue which almighty God beareth to sinners how he indured death to saue them thirdly I considered doe consider am with compassiō exceedingly afflicted for the soules in purgatory their great torments because they cannot help themselues I asked mercy for them of the most sacred wounds of our Redeemer Iesus Christ How S. Agnes sent S. Clares veyle to the monastery of Florence and of her death and translation to Saint George in Assisium with all her Religious into a new Couent CHAP. IIII. AFTER the death of S Clare Saint Agnes sent her blacke veyle which she did ordinarilv weare to the poore Religious of Mount Cae●i which she had founded at Florence which she did in regard of her great amity towardes them and that they might inherit some Reliques of S. Clare for their comfort and deuotion That veyle is yet in the said monastery where it is so carefully preserued that in substance and colour it seemeth still new There is likewise to be seene in the same monastery a cloak of S. Francis by which Reliques our Lord worketh many miracles A little after the death of S. Clare S. Agnes also desired to be present at the marriage of the lambe whither she was inuited but she first receiued the consolation which S. Clare had promised her that before she departed out of this life she should see her Spouse Iesus Christ as a tast of the eternall felicityes wherto she was to be eleuated conducted by her sweet spouse Christ Iesus She dyed the 56 yeare of her age replenished with perfect sanctity and being deliuered out of this prison she went to possesse the Kingdome with Angels and the holy virgins that had bin consecrated to Iesus Christ in which glory these two sisters daughters of Sion companions in heauen by nature grace doe prayse God without end There assembled a great multitude of people vpon the death of S. Agnes and they with great deuotion ascended with a ladder the monastery of Saint Damian hoping thereby to receiue some spirituall consolation of sanctity but it hapned that the chaine which held the ladder did slip so that all those who were vpon it fell downe one vpon another which made a great noyse and clamour by those who were hurt hauing with a strong faith inuocated S. Agnes were all cured The said holy virgin was interred at S. Damian but afterwardes was transported into the Church of S George where she still remayneth togeather with her sister in Assisium by the which Church the Cittizens haue builta faire monastery intituled Saint Clare whither were afterward remoued the Religious sisters of S. Damian which was done to preuent many inconueniences that might arriue vnto the being without the Citty The said Religious brought from S Damian many Reliques and perticularly the Crucifix which spake to S. Francis at the beginning of his conuersion which is extant in the said monastery of S. Clare and the Friars Minors are at S. Damian Of many miracles wrought by Almighty God through the merits of S. Agnes CHAP. V. A Girle of Perusia had a cancred fistula in her throate who hauing deuotion to S. Agnes visited her sepulcher The Religious there hauing vnbound her soare at the entry of the Couent then hauing with a strong faith ' offered her prayers she arose sound and returned to her house exceedingly comforted yielding thankes to God and to his seruant There was a Religious sister at our Lady of Angells of Perusia vvho had a mortall soare in her breast which the Phisitians had iudged to be incurable in it there were three holes so that the Religious womē exhorted her to beare this affliction vvith patience as proceeding from the hand of God and to conforme herselfe to his diuine will This diseased sister being alwaies of mind to recommend herselfe to S. Agnes kneeling one day before the Altar she vvith much deuotion commended herselfe to the holy seruant of God demaunding of her redresse of her infirmity vvherewithall falling falling into a gentle and sweet slumber Saint Agnes appeared vnto her and with her hand touched her mortall wound with which visitatiō she was sweetly comforted and cured and at her awaking finding herselfe soūd she gaue infinit thankes to God to her aduocate S. Agnes Another Religious womā of the monastery of Venice had an impostume in her breast which was opened by the Phisitians found so dangerous that they allotted her a very little time to liue This poore sister therefore in this diftresse recommended herselfe to the two sisters S. Clare and Saint Agnes and about midnight these two Saints as

THE LIFE OF THE GLORIOVS VIRGIN S. CLARE Togeather with the Conuersion and life of S. Agnes her sister And of another S. Agnes Daughter to the King of Bohemia Also the Rule of S. Clare And the life of S. Catharine of Bologna Translated into English Permissis Superiorum M. DC XXII TO THE MOST GLORIOVS Virgin S. Clare Most Glorious Saint BEING to publish thy Blessed Life traslated into English for the publik benefit of our Coūtry I found no creature heere on Earth seeming worthy inough to be presented therewith by way of Dedication And therfore were my Thoughts presently transported hence to the glorious Cittizens of Heauen whither ariuing they forthwith made choice of thy Blessed Selfe as best in particuler deseruing so true an Honour Accept then B. Saint this my small labour which in all Humility Reuerence I heere offer vnto thy Holy NAME togeather with my vnworthy Selfe that by thy Intercession Piety I may be made partaker of some little glimpse of that spiritual Influence which out of the huge Masse of thy Glorious merits thou vouchsafest to impart vnto thy deuout Suppliants amongst whom I humbly begge O Glorious Virgin to be accepted for one I. W. THE TABLE OF S. Clare her Countrey Family Byrth Chap 1. Of her Education Charity Prayer mortification and Virginity Chap. 2. Of her knowledge acquaintance with S. Francis Chap. 3. Of her forsaking the world entring into Religion Chap. 4. How her friends laboured to reclayme her from Religion Chap. 5. Of the cōuersion of her sister Agens by her prayers Chap. 6. Of her Humily Chap. 7. Of her voluntary Pouerty Chap. 8. Of the miracles wrought by her Pouerty Chap. 9. Of her great mortifications abstinence Chap. 10. Of the spirituall profit procured ouer the whole world by the fame of S. Clare Chap. 11. Of her feruent Prayer Chap. 12. How the Mores were expelled the Monastery by S. Clare Chap. 13. How the Citty of Assisium was deliuered by her prayers Chap. 14. Of her Reuerence deuotion to the most B. Sacrament Chap. 15. Of a meruailous consolation she receyued vpon a Christmas day Ch. 16. Of the spirituall doctrine with which she noursed her daughters Chap. 17. Of the deuotion which Pope Gregory the IX had to S. Clare Chap. 18. Of her feruent loue to Iesus Christ of an extasy wherin she was Ch. 19. Of the many Miracles she wrought by the signe of the Crosse Chap. 20. Of the signe of the Crosse remayning vpon Bread blessed by her Chap. 21. Of her Infirmity sicknes Ch. 22. How she was visited by Pope Innocent the fourth Chap. 23. How she comforted her sister Saint Agnes Chap. 24. Of her Death Obsequies Chap. 25. 26. Of the miracles wrought by her Intercession Chap. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Of her Canonization by Pope Alexander the fourth Chap. 32. The life of S. Agnes HOVV S. Agnes was sent to Florence to build there a monastery Chap. I. Of a Letter she wrote to her sister S. Clare the rest of the monastery of S. Damian Chap. II. Of an extasy of S. Agnes and of her thrice crowning by an Angell Chap. III. How she sent S. Clares veyle to the Monastery of Florence and of her death Chap. IIII. Of the many Miracles wrought by the merits of S. Agnes Ch. V. VI. Of the Life of another S. Agnes who was daughter to the King of Bohemia Religious of the same Order Pag. 207. Of the intention of our Lord in the vocation of S. Clare Of her Countrey Family of a Reuelation to her mother touching her birth sanctity CHAP. I. SIx yeares after the conuersiō of the holy Father S. Francis the fourth yeare after the confirmation of his Rule by Pope Innocent the third the yeare of grace 1212. the omnipotent Father of light hauing framed and sent into the world a new man his seruant S. Francis by him to repayre and reforme his faithful people in that age would also that a valourous woman should by his worke appeare in the world to accompany that his great faythfull seruant to the end that of those two shold be new borne a perfect regeneration of the children of God And as the first naturall generation came of man and woman as of an vnited beginning so this spirituall generation of the imitatours of the life and counsailes of Iesus Christ proceeded in al the Church and in all the estates and qualityes of persons of the one same spirit of zeale of perfection of humility and of pouerty from one man and one woman And to the end it might not be vnlike the creation almighty God hauing first perfected his seruant S. Francis would frame of the ribb or side of his life doctrine and Santy the glorious Virgin S. Clare his true and legitimate daughter in Iesus Christ for his companion as zealous also of perfection and angelicall reformation With great reason therfore hath she her place in the Chronicles of the Friars Minors for she being a ribbe and party of the same order it is very requisite a speciall mention should be made of her sanctity of life as we shall heere performe and if it be not according to her merit shall at least be done with the least defect we can possible being resolued to imploy therein that little force of spirit which God hath giuen vs both to the honour of his diuine maiesty his holy seruant and to the edification of soules The glorious S. Clare was borne in the Citty of Assisiū in Italy scituate in the prouince of the valley of Spoletum which is a territory apperteyning to the Pope and Roman Church Her Father and Mother were noble of a famous and very welthy family her Mother was called Hortulana which in our tounge may be tearmed Gardener and not without mistery considering she was to produce so noble and vertuous a plant in the garden of the holy Church This woman was exceeding deuout and compleate in the fruites of good workes and albeit she were marryed and consequently obliged to the care and gouernement of her house and family yet did she not omit with all her power to be exercised in the seruice of God and imployed in the works of mercy She was so feruent in the loue of Iesus Christ that with great deuotion she passed the sea with many other pilgrimes visited those holy places which our Redeemer Iesus Christ God and man consecrated with his holy presence and retourned exceedingly comforted and inriched with many meritts She also visited the Church of the Archangell Saint Michael on the mount Gargan and with a pious and feruent desire visited the Apostles S. Peter S. Paul in Rome in such sort did that vertue and feruour shine in those dayes in many holy persons but now so weakned is the feruour of Christians touching the visiting of holy places the Reliques of our Lord and his Saintes that it