they still remayned in â—he darcknes of sinne Sometymes she would say Thou â—â—est O Lord the need which there is of these â—oules for if they who are the light of the â—orld remaine in darknes how much more â—â—all other creatures remaine there And if â—hey who are the salt of the earth be vnsauouâ—y and insipide how shall they be able to seaâ—on others O my Iesus and how shall they be â—ble to lead others on in the way to thee if â—hemselues go on in that way which is conâ—rary to thee She offered her selfe afterwards to our Lord to indure all the peâ—altyes which these soules deserued so â—hat he would deliuer them from comâ—itting of sinne And she would say with â—dmirable zeale Infuse O my Iesus infuse â—â—y bloud into them and for my part if I â—ight indure all the paynes of Purgatory so as â—ithall they might be saued I should be conâ—ent Lay punishment I beseech thee vpon me â—nd giue me payne interiour and exteriour as 〈◊〉 all best please thee For I cannot endure â—hat there should be so great ignorance where there is so great aboundance O miserable and wretched creature that I am why am not I able to take vpon me and to beare all payne Punish thou vpon me O Word their so great ingratitude so great blindnes and ignorance At last finding that she had obteined the conuersion of those sinners she sayd with excesse of ioy Then let them returne vnto thee like so many wandring sheep for all the happy soules of heauen are expecting their approach with ioy With these feruours of Charity she endlesly prayed the diuine Maiesty for the saluation of others reaped the desired fruit of her labours for she often saw how these soules being illuminated by God with his diuine grace did returne to him with repentant harts by the meanes of her prayers Of the Charity which she vsed towardes her Neighbours CHAP. 52. AS her zeale was such towardes the saluation of others soules so her Charity was no lesse which she imployed towards them in all their other necessityes whether they were spiritual or corporall She euer aspired earnestly to be labouring about them and then did she giue particuler demonstration thereof when any one was sicke in the Monastery So as she would be often saying to the Infirmarian That she had nothing to do Note that she had no disposition to pray nor could keep her mind retyred inwardly vpon God and she would secretly inferre by these words that they might giue her much contentment if they would serue themselues of her in the gouernement of such as were sicke Whensoeuer she was satisfyed in this holy desire of hers she would vse supreme diligence about them and when at any tyme the sicknes grew great the good Mother would sometims by holding them vp in her armes and sometimes feeding them performe all the good offices which are imaginable Among many others this one deserues to be remembred There was a lay Sister who had long been sicke and hauing a veyne broken in her breast was afflicted with much infirmity and griefe Suor Maria Maddalena hauing obserued this tooke her into her care and continuing so about a yeare the sayd Sister dyed In that last passage it caÌ„not be exprest what paines she tooke for she watched with her ten nights without taking in effect any rest at all It happened not long after that another lay Sister fell sicke of an incurable soare and it was offensiue in sauour beyond measure Suor Maria Maddalena desired to haue the charge of attending her and when she had obteyned it she would needs with her own hands dresse the soare and when there grew any vermine as sometymes there did she vsed al diligence in remouing it and sometimes would apply her mouth vnto it as if she were tasting of some curious and delicious liquor She fayled not also with deer wordes to exhort the sicke person to endure all with patience assuring her that in heauen she should find a most liberall remuneration When these two were passed in their seuerall tymes to a better life she performed to their bodyes all the accustomed dutyes before they were buryed and to that she added continuall prayers for their soules and by night without taking in a manner any rest she exhibited her feruent desires to God that they might hasten to the fruition of eternall glory And she procured with great diligence that all the Religious would multiply their prayers she offered her selfe willingly to receaue the punishment of their faults and she prayed to God earnestly that she might doe so who graunting her request made her very often feele grieuous paines for many dayes togeather by meanes whereof they being endured by her with singular patience he shewed her those soules when they went towards the enioying of eternall happynes She seeth the soules of two sinners condemned to Hell at their death CHAP. 53. ON the 22. of December in the yeare 1594. being in excesse of mind she saw the soule of a sinner who at that instant departed out of this life and was condemned to those euerlasting paynes She vnderstood afterwardes how that wretched man besides that he had lead a most wicked life was particulerly sentenced to those endled flames for not hauing in account the spirituall treasures of the Church but despising both Indulgences and all other graces which she tenderly powreth vpon her faythfull children About the same tyme she saw in like manner another soule shut vp on all sides into vnquenchable fire and coÌ„demned by the Iustice of God to the torments of Hell Whereupon she grew to be of an afflicted countenance pale beyond all imagination and with tears and sighes turning her selfe to the soule she sayd Thou art now become a firebrand of hell and soone are thy pleasures and pastimes conuerted into bitter and eternall paynes and then looking vp to heauen she sayd O eternall God the men of this world do not consider and penetrate these thinges But vpon this occasion so great was the griefe affliction of her hart that she wanted little of sowning by it And these visions as she related afterwards by her vsuall Obedience were shewed her by God to the end that both her selfe and the other Religious of that Monastery should inflame themselues more vehemently towards the zeale of the saluation of soules offering vp for them both prayers and pennances to the diuine Iustice She was chosen Mistresse of the yong Religious whome she did admirably help forward in the way of spirit CHAP. 54. IN the yeare 1595. she was by common consent of all the Religious elected Mistresse of the yong Religious It would be heard to deliuer fully with how much zeale she addressed them towards Religious perfection and by the vertue which shined in her they went forwards with great facility towards the procuring of euangelicall perfection In this gouernement of hers she euer prescribed seasonable remedyes and gaue wise
Saints of his holy Catholique Church to the wonder of the whole world euen in despiâ—ht of all sensuality and impiety Since so man glorious Kings Queenes delicate Virgins valiant Captains profound Doctours haue giâ—en ouer in seuerall ages all the whole world at once and cast the care of greatnes of pleasure of liberty of humane knowledge behind their backes for euer that they might only attend to the all-sufficient contemplation of Châ—ist Iesus nayled vpon a Crosse Whome how and with what hart can the eye of any ChristiaÌ„s consideration behould â—o shamefully naked and so mercilesly scourged so dolorously crowned and so impiously blasphemed for him and me and all mankind without a iust indignation against ourselues and implacable hatred of sinne and a most ardent loue towardes so deere a Sauiour wâ—th a most tender compassion of his vâ—speakable torments At least Catholikes that find not such holy affections in themselus as thâ—se wil neuer flatter themselues with a conceit of 〈◊〉 indeed true Christians whereas the aduâ—â—â—aâ—yes of the doctrine of Pennance thinke themselues bound to no other painefull acts but of the mind But when I name compassion I meane not a meere and only affection of the mind whereby we vse to greeue for the misery of another man but I meane by it a kind of joint-tenancy as it were in suffering as he suffered and as his Saints haue suffered through hiâ— assistance and by his example by fasting praying and retyring and mortifying and submitting our selues to affronts and corporal paynes for the satisfaction of Gods iustice due to former sinnes and that afterwardes neither sensuality nor ambition nor any other passion may dishonour and defloure our soules Now if these things be as they haue beene heere deliuered and as indeed they are in what glory I say shall we beleeue this holy and admirable Suor Maria Maddalena de Patsi to remain whose whole Pilgrimage in this world may be accoumpted to haue beene but one continued act of doing Pennance as by the readiâ—g of her life will appeare wherof as she tooke the example from the best examples of antiquity so she hath deliuered ouer her owne to all posterity And in what obscurity true misery do they remayne who being wholy blinded by their passions and euen pressed almost to death by daÌ„gerous obiects procure to make the very reasonable part of their soules beleeue that the liberty of the Ghospell of Christ doth free Christians from the â—ye of keeping his commandements and that because Christ hath suffered for vs all therfore he hath suffered all for vs and that we haue no corporall pennance lâ—ft vs by obligation to vndergo either with him or for our selues When any speach is vsed to them by vs concerning fasting they tell vs out of the Scripture that those things defile not the man that enter in but those others that issue out of man when we speake to them of other pennances they aske vs still out of Scripture Who commaunded these thinges at our hands And when we yet come further to such particulers as carry with them any extraordinary maceration of the body by hayre-cloathes or the drawing of a little bloud by disciplines or the taming of a mans selfe by long watches and the like they stuffe our eares they would stop our mouthes with speach concerning those false Prophets who are sayd in holy Scripture to haue launced and wouÌ„ded themselues with kniues and others that sacrificed their sonnes daughters to the Diuell It were well if once they would begin to thinke of what they sayd and finding that it is not to the purpose they might giue ouer sucâ— impertinencies as these For coÌ„cerning the firsâ— of these three places our B. Sauiour himselfe who gaue vs the example and who by telling vs how we were to carry our selues in fasting did imply a Precept of the thing it self he himselfe I say it was who tould the Iewes how man was not defiled by eating meate with vnwashed hands for which they taxed him but by wicked cogitations brought forth by the tongue and so powred into the eares of other men for which he reproued them By this doctrine he discouered their Hypocrisy and confounded their presumption but he did nothing lesse then disallow either of those fasts to which his Church should haue power to oblige our consciences or of those others which euery man in his own priuate deuotion should thinke fit to make either in contemplation of his loue or in vnion with his paynes and pennance As impertinently do they aske vs who commanded these thinges at our handes For that was sayd by the Prophet to the people which glorifyed themselus for the punctuality wherewith they performed certaine exteriour and ceremoniall thinges when in the meane â—â—me they persecuted the Prophets they opâ—essed the people they dishonoured God by â—ayly and hourely and grieuous sinnes withâ—ut any meaning to reforme their liues perâ—ading themselues absurdly that they had liâ—erty to be as wicked as they would so that â—ithall they carryed any appearance of piety â—n the exteriour Now what hath this obiection to do with vs who are taught by the Catholique Church that our principall endeaâ—our is to be placed in the performing of the will of God the rooting out of ill habits and â—he planting of solid vertue in their place and â—et that exteriour mortifications and pennances ought in all reason to be imbracâ—d as meanes whereby the mind may be brought back to God and to make some poore kind of amends for the vnlawfull pleasure which we take in Creatures to the great offence of the Creatour and especially for the loue of God in Câ—rist Iesus our Sauiour who suffered so grieuous things for vs. We shall therefore not only be wicked but extremly base if we dispose not our selues to pay the gold of his paynes with the drosse of our pennance And therfore when they aske vs Who commanded these things at our hands We answere with oâ—â— who sayd most worthily That the law of Gâ— commandeth vs but a litle but the loue of Gâ— a great deale Yet besides all this there are â—mong other examples in holy Scripture bothâ— the old and new Testament which are pregnant proofes of what we ought to doe in thâ— particuler and in either of them I will giue oâ— instance I meane not heere to presse the exampâ— of the glorious Precursour Baptist of our 〈◊〉 Sauiour S. Iohn for he was sanctifyed in hiâ— Mothers wombe the life which he lead iâ— the wildernesse with a perpetuity of solitude haire-cloaths extreme fasts and prayers is rather to be accounted of austerity then property of pennance because we do not know that he euer sinned voluntarily Besides that the admirable sanctity of his life in this kind is so notorious to the world as that I may forbeare alâ— speach therof though Melancthon and some others of that miserable crew would needes transforme his Camells-haire into Chamlet and
when these walls do separate me from the vnhappy world and make sure vnto me the most precious treasure that I possesse by meanes wherof my soule is kindled to loue Iesus and to enioy him perfectly in my countrey Other while she would say If worldly men did comprehend how great the delights are which they may expect in the other life who liue in virginity vntill their death like Hartes who are ready to dye for lacke of water they would run into the most seuere Religious Orders to shut themselus vp that so they might be kept vntoucht and pure for how much the more a vineyard is hedged in with thorns the more safe it is And although of this vertue she had receaued great light from God that by him she had beene often assured that for euer she should remaine entiere yet neuertheles she was still in extreme apprehension least she might loose so rich a treasure Out of this reason she did auoyd as much as was possible all going to the grates of the Monastery so much as to speake with secular persons though they were neuer so good or holy she would aduise the Sisters concerning that matter saying Remember that you are consecrated to God a Religious shall neuer come from the grate but she will be fayne to spend much tyme ere she can returne to the inward peace which formerly she had for secular discourses doe sometymes cast dust or shaddow vpon the faire lilly of Chastity When she saw any one of the Sisters go with a cheerefull countenance towards the grate Note she wold say in pleasant manner I perceaue you are not yet become altogether one of ours for the property of the Religious of Sancta Maria of the Angells is rather to be sorry then to be glad when they are called for to the grates And contrarywise when in the sisters she discouered a kind of horrour that way she would take extreme contentment in it and noted it to be a particuler fruit of the B. Sacrament and she would say That she wold gladly be to passe as many hours in Purgatory as she was to consume in conuâ—rsation with secular persons The hatred which she carryed to the Parlatory was so great that sometymes not being able but to passe therby she vsed to say From this place the spouses of Christ draw no profit at all for insteed of quietnes we haue trouble insteed of freeing our selues from tentations they are augmented to our handes And all this grew from the great affectioÌ„ wherwith she held holy Virginity in high honour She seeth the glory which a Religious woman of that Monastery enioyed in heauen CHAP. 64. ON the 29. of October in the yeare 1598. a Religious woman of that Monastery who left a great odour of sanctity being passed to the other life the deuout Mother who was present at her death saw a multitude of Angels making as it were a faire garland round about her and expecting to conduct her soule to heauen After her death the vsuall prayers being made for her the seruant of God saw her in celestiall glory enioying the supreme God and apparelled with a golden mantle which she had receaued in reward of her ardent charity Besides for hauing euer conuersed proceeded towards her neighbour with all meeknes and sweetnes she saw that in reward thereof she receaued a most delicious liquor which distilling from the mouth of Christ Iesus was infused into hers and so she had the tast of an excessiue sweetnes Suor Marta Maddalena did much reioyce in this so agreable sight both because she had beene very familiar with that Religious because she saw her in so great height of glory that it exceeded as she sayd the felicity of any other Religious of that Monastery Besides this she vnderstood that she had beene in Purgatory by the only space of fiue houres for a very light defect which she had fallen into and it was That she afflicted her selfe too much when she saw that others by her occasion were disgusted But she full of ioy began to discourse of her glory as if she would haue melted in excesse of loue And so hauing with great confidence recommended her selfe and the other Relâ—gious vnto her she returned from the Rapt She was chosen Mother of the Nouices The directions which she gaue them CHAP. 65. IN the yeare 1598. she was by commoÌ„ consent made Mistresse of the Nouices and in October she began to execute that office with great vigilancy of care She endeauoured that they who came to Religion should haue a desire thereunto more then ordinary Therfore would she be often trying them and if she found that they had any liuely feeling of that state she would then shew them the Rules of the Monastery saying further Obserue well O my children that whosoeuer will be Religious in our Conuent must neuer performe their owne wills but the contrary of that which they desire She would also trye them with such kind of mortifications as might touch them in the point of estimation And once she made two of them being of 18. or 20. yeares a peece pronouÌ„ce publiquely the Christ Crosse row which children vse to read and to see whether they made any account of themselues she would say also in publique manner These are they whom the world esteems to come with so great desire of seruing God O how much are they deceaued Besides this with making them aske pardon of all the Nouices she would also mortify them Sometyms she would call one of them towardes her and say This child coÌ„ceaueth that we haue had a great good fortune by hauing her in our number These then and other were the meanes wherby she made trial of such as came to serue God When afterwards they were accepted she would with singular affection receaue them and with so gracious a maÌ„ner inflame them towards the seruice of God that within few dayes they would become most obseruant of the Religious Rules And when she saw them setled resolued she drew them with admirable sweetnes of words to the desire of mortifying despising themselues making also earnest prayers to the eternall God for that purpose Sometymes she would call them to her Note saying My children let God only be sufficient for you Take no more care about your kinred or any other earthly thing for I assure you that you shall find in him all true happines and the entire satisfaction of all your iust desires Againe she would tell them that she would endure any defect of theirs except it were speaking ill of others She exhorted them neuer to be discoursing either in priuate or publike of the world but often to examine their owne faults and sometymes she would say to them as at vnawares That hart of yours where is it at this instant What is it that you thinke vpon And according to the answere she would giue excellent aduices beseeching them earnestly afterwardes
who had both led such a holy life had been honoured euen on earth by so admirable graces from God Of her great Patience in the paynes of her sicknes and how she receaued the Sacrament of Extreme Vnction CHAP. 74. SHE hauing demaunded of God as hath been sayd already that she might purely and solely suffer when any thing brought the least shaddow of comfort to her she would be seriously thinking whether in that she had not offended God and whether for that cause she might not perhaps be suffering perpetually in the next life And being told by the Ghostly Father that before her death it was likely she might feele much spirituall comfort I aske not that answered she of my Lord but indeed I aske patience of him Inuincible spirit for the supporting of these payns Wherby yet she was not afflicted so furiously as that she fayled to exercise according to her power the Office of Subprioresse giuing conuenient instructions to those sisters which repaired to her And it was an admirable thing that none of them could euen then go from her without extreme contentment and satisfaction Note But her anguish more increasing euery day she felt sometimes in her brest as if it had beene a rasour which would haue deuided her parts one from another sometimes in her head as if there had beene strockes with hammers and such other vnspeakable torments that if formerly she had not freely offered her selfe to suffer or had not had a liuely notice of the nobility of suffering for the loue of Iesus Christ her so many seuerall anguishes which were excessiue beyond humane conceit would infallibly haue produced wordes of impatience Among other thinges it was matter of much compassion to consider her body so consumed that her bones made great holes though her skin and concauityes in the bed wherein she lay so that when for any necessary occasion the Religious were to rayse her vp she suffered paines that were insufferable And that which giueth irrefragable testimony to her Purity is that when the Religious were performing those aforesayd offices to her person Note she would say to them Do you thinke O my Sisters that this touching or wrapping of myne which you haue vsed for my assistance hath impeached Virginâ—ty or Purity in any degree if you thinke it haue I will procure to help my selfe alone or els I will remayne still in the place where I am An euident signe that as she had related to her Confessarius she had neuer coÌ„ceaued or knowne any thing in her selfe which might be contrary to Chastity in the least degre The Phisitians could neuer find a reason how that body might be able to keep it selfe in life so long vnder the burthen of so many so cruell tormeÌ„ts Nay and the Religious themselues being all astonished would say sometymes that it was impossible for her to liue 8. dayes And yet those dayes did passe weekes and moneths so that all human discourse was put to silence and it grew to be accounted miraculous that body of hers being then reduced to such state that hardly the Religious had the hart to visit her as not being able to endure so lamentable a spectacle And euen when they did visite her they could not containe their tears they had not the power to looke vpon her they lost as it were the vse of speach so as then they parted from her very often without speaking any word vnto her at all The Father who then had the care of the Monastery communicated her euery morning did often seriously consider her extremely fearing that she had not force to swallow downe that celestiall food as also he doubted least that act of piety in the bitternes of her pains might depriue her of life Notwithstanding all this she tooke hart by tymes would needs euery day heare the sacred Office to which she would often listen with incredible attention whilest two of her Sisters were reciting it neere her bed and sometymes she would also her selfe pronounce some verses Finally after fiue months of so great infirmity she was exhorted by the Phisitians to take the Extreme Vnction esteeming that at the most she could not passe two or three dayes of life She as foreknowing her approaching death did instantly resigne and prepare her selfe with great humility for the taking of that holy Sacrament But first she did with ardent wordes recommend the Monastery to the Father who was the Gouernour thereof and made him a promise that if she went to heauen she would pray earnestly to God both for him and all the Religious that after this short life they might meet in that celestiall kingdom Note She then desired the Prioresse to draw all the Religious thither into her presence and she asked pardon of them all for her defects and for the euill example that she had giuen them encouraging them to keep themselues true spouses of Christ Iesus After this she receaued of the Ghostly Father on the 13. of May in the year 1607. the Extreme Vnction and she her selfe did answere both to the verses and to the Letanies and neuer remoued her eye from a Crucifixe which she would needs hold coÌ„tinually in her hand There were not then heard other then sighes and sobbes of the Religious who all being prostrate about the bed of their deer Mother made as it were a very poole of tears As soone as she had receaued this Sacrament by the comfort which she drew from thence she was all cleere in countenance and seemed in a manner as if all her paines had left her And turning towards the Confessarius she sayd Father I vnderstand that to morrow morning you will go to visit those Fathers the Eremits of Monte Senario A most holy Ermitage within 8. miles of Florence and now I tell you that you may go securely Concerning me haue no doubt at all for you shall find me aliue at your returne and I beseech you recommend me to their prayers whereby I much confide that our Lord may graunt me grace that I may be saued The Confessarius then answered that he had no mind to go considering the state wherein she was she replyed yet againe Go securely for you shall finâ—â—me aliue And so he hauing a firme hope therof went thither where he had designed returning after three dayes did find her in the selfe same termes Hauing prepared her selfe to death she piously rendreth her soule into the hands of her beloued Iesus CHAP. 75. AFTER she had receaued the Sacrament of Holy Oyle in those 13. dayes of her suruiuing she was much more afflicted with seuerall paynes it seemed as if they had al vnited themselues to pul her downe And that little flesh which had been resting vpon her afflicted bons through the excesse of anguish was distilled into so great aboundance of sweat as not only the sheets but euen the bed was bathed therwith so as it was necessary
sisters who are consecrated to the seruice of God may be zealous according to humane possibility towardes true Religious obseruance and that they may haue no other ayme but to execute those Orders and Counsells tending to saluation which they haue receaued from their Superiours Confirme them I beseech thee in such a delightfull loue towards candour of mind internall purity that they may sooner consent to giue their bodyes to a thousand deaths then their soules to the spot of any one impure cogitation Kindle thou by prayers in the minds of those that are Superiours such an ardent deuotion to holy Pouerty that they may neuer permit the least trifle to be held in propriety wherby the vigour of Religious obseruance may the better be maynteyned whilest in them as there did in the holy Apostls may raigne vnasidâ—s cor vnum Let them neuer carry inordinate affection towardes themselues but only be attentiue in seconding the good will of God and mortifying their senses making this life to be nothing els but a full measure and heape of vertue I will not now expresse my selfe to thee in many wordes to intreate thy prayers to the eternall God for me who yet find my selfe in this valley of teares for I confide in that which thou didst so often promise me with carefull charity whilest I ministred to thee the most holy Sacraments in thy last sicknes O blessed Soule we all relying vpon the sweet assistance of thy prayers doe hope by the goodnes of God after this short pilgrimage of ours to arriue with happines to that high hill of heauen where thou being adorned with immortall light dost liue more triumphant and glorious then can be imagined by the poore thoughts of man which are euen ouer whelmed by the greatnes therof Much people concurred to the sight of her body and the funeralls and she was after buryed with great deuotion CHAP. 76. THE Religious therefore seeing in their presence their deere Mother depriued of life it cannot be exprest what cordial sighes of affection they discharged from their harts towardes the blessed body and in what aboundance they did euen raine tears from their eyes On the one side stood the Nouices on the other the yong Religious who had beene gouerned by her and those others also who had beene vnder her care in the Office of Subprioresse Then all the other Mothers togeather did compasse in the holy Corpes making pious and deuout contemplations And in that dolorous spectacle there were heard so piteous sighes and so ardent sobbes that no one could hold from tears Neither did they faile to do so also in the Chapter-house whither she was brought vpon the Beare after they had performed the vsual sacred ceremonyes to recite deuout Hymnes and Psalmes The place whereon she lay was couered with store of flowers she in the midst therof dead I confesse but with a face so Angelical as that it seemed after a sort that the glory of her soule did euen shine in some degree through her body At two hours before Sunne set at those grates of the Church which answere vpon the Chapter-house there was made by the Father who hath the charge of them a spirituall discourse to all the Religious in honour of the seruant of God exalting those holy vertues wherby on earth she had purchased a Crown in Heauen On the morning following the holy body was placed in the Church of whose death when the voyce was a little spread throughout the Citty such a multitude of people came in that it was a wonder The people in a holy manner were striuing among themselues now in taking with deuotion of those flowers which vpon the Blessed Corpes were scattered now in kissing the habit wherwith it was clad now in touching the hearse and now calling Suor Maria Maddalena a Blessed woman and a Saint nor knew they how to departe thence but would enioy as long as it was possible the sight of that diuine countenance And to satisfy the pious affection of the people by tymes it was necessary to couer the hearse againe and that aboundantly with flowers that euery one might depart contented Some were also placed for the guard of the Blessed Body it being doubted least the people should deuide some part of it from the rest And for the great concourse there was difficulty to performe the sacred Office The Church was open from the 15. houre of the same morning with free liberty for euery one to see the B. Mother but fearing there would be some coÌ„motion it was shut afterwards so the doores were beaten with blows and our eares by the earnest prayers of such as desired to see her Therfore there was no remedy but to open the gate again at the * Two houres before Sunset 22. houre to light torches to the end that the deuout people might be satisfyed in their pious desires and so things continued till the * Sunne set 24. houre The Church was shut after this and the Blessed Corpes layd in a Coffen apparelled for the better preseruing of it from moâ—thes and the like in a Coate a Scapulary and a mantle of Taffaty At the second houre of the night she was buryed behind the high Altar with thâ—t honour and reuerence which belonged to so great a seruant of God Our Lord was not wanting as he had already done in the life of Suor Maria Maddalena so also to shew many miracles after her death as cleere proofes of her great sanctity And these miracles graces granted by Almighty God to this deuout Mother are placed in the end of the second part of her life as may there be seene Laus Deo