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A72216	The second booke of the dialogues of S. Gregorie the Greate the first pope of that name containing the life and miracles of our Holie father S. Benedict. To which is adioined the fule of the same holie patriarche translated into the Englishe tonge by C.F. priest & monke of the same order.; Dialogi. Part 2. English	Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604.; Batt, Antonie.; Fursdon, John, d. 1638.; Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604. Short treatise touching the confraternitie of the scapular of St. Benedicts order.	1638 (1638)	STC 12350.5; ESTC S125237	72,895	252

the blessed Sacrament saying Goe and with all reuerence lay this host of the body of our Lord vpon his breast and so bury him This done the earth kept his body and neuer after cast it vp By this you perceiue Peter of what merit this man was with our Lord Iesus Christ sith the very earth cast forth the body of him who had not receiued the blessing of Benedict Peter I Doe plainely perceiue it and am much astonished therat Of à Monke who leauing his Monastery met à Dragon in the way CHAP. XXV Gregory ONe of his Monkes of a wandering and vnconstant disposition would by no meanes abide in the Monastery And although the holy mā had often reprooued admonished him of it he remained deaf to all perswasions and oftentimes entreated earnestly to be released from the congregation So the holy Father ouercome with this importunity in anger bid him be gone Scarse was he got out of the Monastery when he met in the way à Dragon that with open mouth made towards him and seeing it ready to deuoure him he beganne to quake tremble crying out alowde helpe helpe for this Dragon will deuoure me The Brethren vpon this suddain noyse ranne out yet saw no Dragon but found the Monke panting and afrighted so they brought him back againe to the Monastery who forth with promised neuer to depart from the Monastery and from that time he remained alwayes constant in his promise as who by the prayers of the holy man was made see the Dragon ready to deuoure him which before he had followed vndiscouered How St. Benedict cured à boy of the leprosy CHAP. XXVI I Will also relate what I heard of à very honorable man named Anthonie who affirmed that à seruant of his Father fell into à leprosie in so much that his haire fell of and his skinne wa● swolne so that he could noe longe hide the deformity of his disease dayly increasing This seruant was sent by the gentlemans Father to the man of God and by him restored to his perfect health How St. Benedict miraculously procured money for à poore man to discharge his debt CHAP. XXVII NOr will I conceale that which his Disciple Peregrine was wont to relate how an honest poore man constrained by necessity of à debt thought his onely remedie was to haue recourse to the man of God So he came to the monastery where meeting with the seruant of God he told him how he was extreamely vrged by his creditour for the payment of twelue shillings The venerable Father answered him that in very deed he had not twelue shillings but yet he comforted his want with good wordes saying goe after two dayes retourne hither againe for at this present I haue it not to giue you These two dayes as his custome was he spent in prayer and vpon the third day when the poore debter came againe there was found thirteene shillings vpon à chest of the Monastery that was full of corne which the man of God caused to be brought him and gaue them to the distressed man that he might pay twelue and haue one to defray his charges But to retourne to the relation of such things as I learned of his disciples of whom I spake in the beginning There was à certaine man had an aduersary who bare him deadely hatred and so great was his malice that he gaue him poison in his drinke which potion although it procured not his death yet it so altered his colour that his body became all speckled like à leapour This man was brought to the holy Father who by his onely touch caused the diuersity of colours to vanish away and restored him to his health How à glasse bottle cast downe vpon stones was not broken CHAP. XXVIII AT such time as the great famine was in Campania the man of God gaue all he had to those he saw in want and necessity in so much that there was no prouision almost left in the spence saue onely à litle oyle in à glasse vessell yet when one Agapitus à subdeacon came humbly entreating to haue à litle oyle giuen him the man of God who had resolued to giue all vpon earth that he might haue all in heauen commanded this litle oyle that was left to be giuen him The Monke who was dispencier heard his command but was loath to fulfill And the holy man à litle after demanded whether he had done what he willed him the Monke answered that he had not giuen it saying that if he should haue giuen that there would be nothing left for the Religious hereat the good Father much displeased bad some other take the glasse bottle in which there remained a little oyle cast it out of the window that nothing of the fruits of disobedience might be left to pester the Monastery which was accordingly done vnder the window was à steepe fall full of huge rough stones vpon which the glasse fell yet it remained as whole and entyre as if it had not bin throwne downe so that neither the glasse was broke nor the oyle spilt which the man of God commanded to be taken vp and giuen to him that asked it Then calling the Monkes together he rebuked the Religious man before them all for his pride want of confidence How an empty tunne was filled with oyle CHAP. XXIX HAuing ended the chapter he and all the Monkes fell to their prayers In the place they prayed was an empty tunne closse couered As the holy man continued his prayer the couer of the said tunne beganne to be heaued vp by the oyle encreasing vnder it which runne ouer the brim of the vessel vpon the floore in great aboundance Which so soone as the seruant of God Benedict beheld he forth with ended his prayer and the oyle ceased to runne ouer Then he admonished the distrustfull and disobedient Monke to haue confidence in God and learne humility So the Brother thus reprehended was much ashamed because the venerable Father did not onely by word admonish him but also did miraculously show the power of Allmighty God Nor could any man afterwardes doubt of what he promised sith as it were in à moment for à glasse bottle almost empty he had restored à tunne full of oyle How he dispossessed à Monke CHAP. XXX ONe day as he was going to S. Iohns chappell which stands vpon the very toppe of the mountaine he mette the subtill enemie vpon à mule in the habit and comportment of à physitian carryeing à horne and à morter who being demanded whither he went answered he was going to the Monkes to minister à potion So the venerable Father Benedict went forward to the chappell to pray and haueing finished retourned backe in great hast for the wicked spirit found one of the ancient Monkes drawing water and praesently he entred into him threw him downe and tortured him pittifully As soone as the holy man retourning from prayer found him thus cruelly tormented he onely gaue him à