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A08886	A short relation, of the life, virtues, and miracles, of S. Elizabeth called the peacemaker. Queen of Portugall Of the third rule of S. Francis. Canonised by Pope Vrban the VIII. the 25. of May. Anno 1625. Translated out of Dutch; by Sister Catharine Francis, Abbess of the English Monasterie of S. Francis third rule in Bruxelles.; Leven van de H. Elizabeth van Portugael. English	Paludanus, François, d. 1631.; Greenbury, Catharine, 1596-1642.	1628 (1628)	STC 19167; ESTC S120727	20,106	84

Chamberlaines not vvithstanding that it vvas then the heat of summer She caryed her Clothes and other necessary thinges on her backe begging like à poore vvoman almes for Goddes-sake It hath not been often heard that any Queene travailed in this maner This pilgrimage she made but one yeare before her death At her returne home she was entreated to make peace betvveen her sonne Alphonsus and her daughters sonne king of Castille called also Alphonsus but she could not effect it being preuented by death Of the death of this holy Queene THE XVIII CHAPTER AS the holy Queen trauailed towardes Estrimotium ther to treat of the afore named peace vvith her sonne Alphonsus it pleased almighty God that she fell in to infirmity which seemed at first little but aftervvard great Before her extremitie of sicknes she came euery day to the Chappel to heare diuine seruice accompanied with the king her sonn and hauing setteled all her afaires with him and his wife her sicknes increased so much vpon à munday that she kept her chamber and the kings daughter her grand child tended her very carefully In this sicknes she was visited by the most glorious Virgin Mary vvho came accompanied vvith à great troupe of Virgins all in vvhite vvith crownes of gould vpon theyr heades affectionatly bovving them selues tovvard her vvhich the holy Elizabeth seeing and perceiuing them to come neere vnto her she desired the Queene her daughter in lavv and the rest of those who were present that they vvould giue place to that heauenly company then feeling her death to aproache she sent for her Confessor and hauing made her confession she made him say mass in another roome wher she might both see and heare it The mass being ended hauing alone put on her Religious habit she forced her selfe with great paine to go to the Altar vvhere she receiued the most holy Sacrament deuoutly vpon her knees the same day that she rendred her blessed soule in to the hands of her creator Hauing ended her deuotion at the altar she returned to her bedd About euening although the Doctors did not think she vvould haue departed so speedily she called for her sonn and treated with him of the peace for vvhich she had come thither after this she desired him to go to supper and as he vvas going out vvith the Doctor he heard à sodain crye of all that were in the chāber and coming in he called vpon his dying mother and kissing her hand she came à little to her selfe and spake to him about thinges of very greate importance and after turning her selfe she cast her eyes vpon à crucifix and calling vpon our blessed lady vvhom she had seen in her sicknes she gaue her spirit into the hands of her redeemer Anno 1336. being the 4. of Iuly she vvas 65. yeares of age vvhen she dyed Of her Buriall THE XIX CHAPTER AS soone as the holy soule was departed from the bodie they opened her testamēt where they found that shee had charged her sonne Alphonsus to burie her bodie at Conimbria in the church of S. Clare that she had made Heerto he appointed the the principalest of his court who much feared to carry the body so farr by reason of the heat of the time but the king would accomplish his mothers vvill The bodie being shut in à coffin and layde vpon à waggon by the shaking vpon the vvay some moisture issued through the chinckes of the chest vvhich they perceiving that had the care of the body began to murmur against the king fearing the evill smel which they presumed would follovve Heer vpon came one of them to the coffin and felt so svveet à sauour as hee sayde hee had never felt the like the rest approaching felt the same and all of them iudged it to bee an odour from heauen On the seaventh day they arriued at Conimbria vvhen all the cittie and kingdome was filled with sorrow for the death of so good à Queen After solemne seruice the bodie was layde in the graue which before she had caused to bee made and it chaunced that the handes and cloathes of the men that laydit in were besprinckled with à liquor that came out of the bodie vvhich gaue such à sweet savour as it exceeded the savour of roses or the svveetest flovvers Of the miracles which happened after her death THE XX. CHAPTER AFter the death of this holy Queen many miracles were vvrought by vvhich her merites before Almightie God vvere made knovven to the vvorlde Tvvo men that had long been sick of violent agues caried the Bear in which the holy body had layen and comending themselues to the merits of this Saint Elizabeth vvere forthvvith cured A Clariss had long time so great paine in her head and teeth that shee could eat no meat but coming to the Bear she was forthwith cured Ferdinand Stephans à citizen of Conimbria had his foote hurt vvith à nayle vvhich by no meanes could be dravven out and commending himselfe to this holy Queen was presently holpen A vvoman that had the pestilence and à carbuncle vpon her hand winding it in à cloath that the holy Elizabeth had vsed was presently cured Tvvo blind vvomen visiting her graue received sight instantly The mother of à Canon Regular being blinde and by her sonne lead to the graue hauing there done her deuotion vvas restored to cleer sight instantly Manie others of sundry diseases as of hoat agues burning fevers possessed by the divell blind distract of theyr vvittes c. coming to her graue or being annoynted vvith the oyle that burned in her lampe vver miraculously cured Howe it came to pass that her feast was kepte and how her holy body was found entire and honorably taken vp THE XXI CHAPTER THe king Emanuell vnderstanding of the miracles done by the merits of the holy S. Elisabeth obtained of Pope Leo the X. that in the diocess of Conimbria her feast day might bee solemnized and king Ihon the 3. sonne of Alphonsus obtained of Pope Paul the IIII. that the same might be kept over all Portugall Almightie God by 3. wonderfull miracles did shevv hovv pleasing this solemnitie was vnto him for three Clarisses afflicted vvith incurable diseases were healed therat After this Philip the 3. of that name king of Spaine and Portugall procured that six persons of note should bee ordeined to seeke out the miracles of this holy Elisabeth which being done verie carefully the forenamed king sent to Rome to Pope Paule the V. to the end she might bee Canonised but the Pope dying it vvas not then brought to pass At last the present Pope Vrbanus the VIII at the request of King Philip the 4. made the foresayd inquisition of the miracles where after 276. yeares that shee had been dead to vvitt in the year of our lorde 1612. her graue hauing been opened in presence of many vvitnesses and expert Doctours of Phisick they found in the toombe à chest of vvood covered with ox hides which began to bee rotten shut with barres of yrō that were eaten vp with rust the bodie wound in duble silke the face honorably covered to the brest with a cypres veile The bodie vvas all entire and vvhole the face vvith liuely colour as if she had been but newly buried and the linen cloathes about her still so nevve as vvithout great stress they could not bee torne A Religious man that was there called Ihon Delgado touched the face of the Queen vvhich received the print of his fingers The great Doctor of Physick Balthazar Azeredo drevv to him three times her arme and it went bàcke to the place everie time vvithout breaking Ther vvas found by her in the graue à staff and à purse vvhich betokened her virtuous life and liberalitie to the poore vvith the staff she had gone on pilgrimage to S. Iames. Out of the purse shee had reached money to the needy The Bishop Alphonsus Albicastre because this ritch treasure had been found in his diocess made with consent of the king to the honour of the holy Elisabeth à costly chappel of polished marble vvtih à guilded arch vnder the vvhich he placed à siluer shrine vvith vvindovves to bee opened that as need vvas the body might be seen as vvel vvithout of the people as vvithin of the Religious This good Bishop after he had bestovved 12000. crovvnes vpon the vvorck being preuented by death could not finish it he left vvith the king of Spaine 30000. crovvnes for the Canonisation vvho himselfe did forder it but being taken avvay by death savve it not done in fine it was brought to an end by king Philip the 4. and she is Canonised by Pope Vrban the VIII in the year of Iubile 1625. the 25. of May to the honour and glorie of God FINIS