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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48622	Miracles of the B. Virgin, or, An historical account of the original, and stupendious performances of the image entituled, Our Blessed Lady of Halle viz. restoring the dead to life, healing the sick, delivering of captives, &c. / written originally in Latin, by Justus Lipsius ; afterwards translated into French, then into Dutch, and now rendred into English.; Diva virgo Hallensis. English	Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.	1688 (1688)	Wing L2361; ESTC R16234	21,245	40

Images of the B. Virgin which in remembrance of her she loved and esteemed more than ordinary whereof she gave one to the Cloyster of Carmelite Nuns at Vilvord which hath been antiently as famous for its Miracles as of late its title is Our B. Lady of Consolation intimating that several Persons have there been delivered from their Maladies and acquired ease both of Body and Mind She gave three other Images to Mechtildis Sister to Duke Henry her Husband who being a Widow had married Florentius IV. Earl of Holland and Zealand from which Nuptials sprung the honoured William II. who was in the contention chosen Emperour of Germany Mechtildis's reception of these Images of Sophia in process of Time had a better Effect than could have been if she had received them from Elizabeth her self who had been long dead and the great Distance that was between their several Habitations might have prevented any Acquaintance between them Mechtildis not long before her Decease distributed the Images in divers Places She placed one at Gravesand Lips his Hall. c. 3. an antient though small City of Holland situate near the Cloyster of Loosduynen which she had founded and where after her Husbands Death she piously and chastly spent the remainder of her Life She gave another to the Carmelites Church at Haerlem And the third which is our Image she bestowed at Halle in Henegow But why was this placed there I believe because her Daughter Adelheydis was married to John of Avennes Earl of Henogowe some Years before her Death To which we may add Die A. 1267. geschiedenis Lips c. 3. That she had a Daughter of her own Name who being married to the Earl of Hennenberg had at one Birth 364 Children which were baptized altogether by the Bishop of Vtrecht An Event that looks more like a Fable than a true History did not our Annals so firmly and unanimously assert it But to return to our Design as the stubborn were apt to calumniate so the Religious admired by what means the Holy Elizabeth collected so many Images of the B. Virgin. Both which may be satisfied by Haraeus who says Tom. 1 Ann. l. 12 That she her self or some Body for her received them from her Aunt the religious Heduwigis Wife to Hedricus Barbatus Prince of Slesia and Poland who knew the vertuous Disposition of her Neece The Reason of this Conjecture might be That in her life time she was found to have a great quantity of Images of the B. Virgin which she very much reverenced She kept a small one commonly in her Hand as well to excite her Devotion with the sight of it as to bless and heal the Sick Nay which is more she so venerated that Sacred Image that she dyed with one between her Fingers and was in that Posture interr'd Some Years after her death her Body was found consumed except the two Fingers which with their former Vigor graspt the sacred Image This is the Reason why the Painters represent her with an Image in her Hand To speak more particularly This holy Image is composed of Wood it is about three Foot high sitting on a Chair and offering her left Breast to the Child to suck the Cloaths and other Ornaments veil it from our Eyes It is not esteemed for its composure nor the Matter whereof it is composed that being slight and common nor its black Colour caused by its Antiquity and the Smoak of Lamps but there is a more than Human Majesty attends it because it represents the B. Virgin who is so honourable and hath done so many Miracles and doth daily That Character Nigra sum sed formosa might here take Place This Meanness of the Image ought not to diminish Wisemens Devotion nor the Veneration of the Simple and Illiterate Here that falls in very opportunely which Wichmans remarks viz. Brab Mar. l. 1. c. 37. That amongst all the miraculous Images of the B. Virgin especially those that were found in the Netherlands there was none whose matter was sumptuous or composure elegant Therefore they would not be esteemed were not their worth enhanced by Faith which neglecting the Curiosities of the Image fixes it self upon the mighty Power of God which appears through the Images in the Operation of Miracles This gives us a clear Prospect of the Divine Providence in bereaving the World of all Occasions of Idolatry by this meanness of the Images for on the contrary had they been elegant and costly the unthinking Vulgar would have appropriated their Honour and Veneration to their Splendor and the Obstinate would think and affirm That we therefore honour the Type but not for the Sake of the Prototype Yet we ought not to hinder the making of costly Images in honour of the B. Virgin for they represent her as well nay better than the meaner if they be miraculous The B. Virgin began to be honoured in this Image and to perform various Miracles about the Year 1267. in the time of Nicholas de la Fountaine the fifty first Bishop of Camerick Beverlink theat L. E. V. Epus a Man of extraordinary Piety and Vertue and as his Suffragan Thomas Cantipratanus who was born at Leew near Halle affirms a great Honourer of the B. Virgin a worthy Scholar to Albertus Magnus and School-fellow with Thomas Aquinas all ardent Lovers of the Mother of God. CHAP. II. The Blessed Virgin defended the City of Halle from the Power of her Enemies LEt us now with a thankful Acknowledgment relate the wonderful and memorable Actions which the Queen of Heaven and Mother of Mercy hath performed to so many afflicted and comfortless Persons And here we must not omit That the wooden Image which is several hundred Years old and yet is so far from the usual Concomitants of Antiquity that it is not in the least injured by Time nor the frequent Fires which the Neighbours affirm have consumed the adjacent Houses The B. Virgin hath not only preserv'd her Image and Church from the impetuous Flames but hath several Times defended the City against the Power and Force of its Enemies Philip Cleve in the Year 1489. chief of the Enemies of Maximilian I. and his Son Philip seeing that Halle was a Thorn in the Foot of the Brussellers treacherously bought some of the Burghers to his side that when he should come they should give him entrance into the City he was on his March with 6000. Men and had surprized the City had not a Burgher of Brussels by chance why say I by chance it was by the appointment of the B. Virgin who watched over her City been imprisoned who discovered the Plot The Burghers made use of this Discovery and let Philip of Cleve march on with his Army pass the Moat and climb the Walls and then with an extraordinary Courage forced him to retire with Shame and Dishonour Philip seeing the ill Success of his first Assault having procured more Strength and armed himself better made a

heard for the B. Virgin gave him hope of an approaching deliverance Being alone he fell upon his knees beseeching the B. Virgin that this dream might proceed to a happy event Hereupon he took a bone from the Beef which was allotted him and used it instead of a File and touched therewith the Irons that were about his Neck Hands and Feet and broke them He tyed his Linnen and Cloathes together with which he let himself down from the Tower but it was not long enough he ventur'd a steep fall without any damage Now to finish happily that deliverance which was begun he hid himself in the next Wood and made use of the darkness of the Night to fly in his flight continued three days and at their end he came hungry disfigured and naked as he was to thank the B. Virgin of Halle CHAP. XXIV A Servant was delivered from the Gallows ALthough according to the Heathens Bellona is the Goddess of War yet she must lay her Arms and Laws at the foot of Mary and those which she hath ordained to death 1604. the B. Virgin can preserve alive As it happened in Weerdt where the Mutiners were 5000 strong and had retired to a place very well fortified These men although they had trodden under feet all Princely Laws and Obligations of Obedience yet they could not effect their design without establishing new and more severe Laws They forbid the hindering or injuring of those which brought and sold Provision upon pain of death A Young man of Luxemburgh whose Name was John went to the Market to buy Herrings as soon as he had received the Herrings he intended to have paid for them but he was driven from his place by the croud before he could give the seller his Money A Trumpeter saw this but knew not that it was innocently done and being allured by the 25 Crowns which was promised to the discoverer of any breaker of this Law he denvered and accused him to the Officers who in a Councel of War unanimously condemned him Guilty or not guilty he must now be hanged Seeing that there was no Justice on Earth he sent his Prayers to Heaven for Mercy and said O Mighty Queen of Heaven which art worshipped at Halle as thou hast several times defended the Innocent so defend my Innocence and immediately he received a strong confidence in her Mercy He was led by the Executioner to the Gallows tyed up and turned off the Ladder He was also hanged with a double Rope one Cord broke and the other was likely to break Although the Spectators esteemed this to be a Miracle yet the Executioner leaped upon his shoulders to strangle him a Souldier seeing this ran up the Ladder and cut the Rope with his Sword. Thus John was delivered and came and bowed his condemned Head before the B. Virgin of Halle and thanked her for the deliverance CHAP. XXV A Nun cured of a Convulsion of the Sinews ADriana Serraets 1602 a Noble and Religious Nun of Vorst being about 22 years of age and in very good health was suddenly taken with a Convulsion of the Sinews this tormented her so grievously that she could not rest by day nor night neither the Ingenuity of the Physician nor the Experience of the Chirurgion could afford her any redress an evident sign that all humane help must give place that we may ascribe the Glory to the B. Virgin only To that end with the Approbation of her Abbess she sent a Pious Woman in her stead to Halle who in her Name and for the regaining of her Health should offer up a gift and cause the Sacrifice of the Mass to be recited Oh wonderful but true event At the same time that the Woman offered the gift at the very instant when the Priest was serving for her at the Altar at Halle her health was restored her upon the Quire at Vorst she was then employed according to her custom in praising of God having regained her Health she caused a joyful Te-Deum to be sung The Dutch Author relates some Miracles which are testified by the Inscriptions and Paintings of the Chappel but they being not so fully related as the precedent Relations I shall only conclude with one of the Inscriptions which is as as followeth D. O. M. M. M. V. HEnricus ab Etten Antwerpiae mense Octobri Anno 1575. Pestilenti febri laborans destitutus a Medicis cum peregrinationem ad aedem Deiparae Hallis Sacram vovisser praesenti coelestis opis miraculo inox cadem levatus hanc tabellam tanti beneficii grati memorem tantae misericordiae palam testem humile devotione collocat consecratque FINIS