litle before euen song tyme being in the Church occupied in praier manie reuelations were shewed to her by S. Dominicke him selfe and by diuerse other Sainctes The which reuelations were so familiar to her that she was able at one tyme both to geue heed to them and also to declare the same to others While she was thus occupied it chaunced that brother Barthelmewe her Confessours companion entred into the Church in whom she had as great affiance as in her Confessour him selfe for in her Confessours absence he was her ghostlie Father When she perceiued that he was come she arose and went towardes him and said that she had to conferre with him concernyng certaine reuelations Wherupon they sate downe together in the Church and she began to declare to him manie strange thinges that our Lord had reuealed to her Emong other thinges she declared to him that at that verie instant while she was speaking to him she sawe her holy father S. Dominicke there present as well as she sawe the Friar that sate by her and that he was neerer to her then the Friar was In this meane tyme while she was thus declaring to him manie wonderful reuelatiōs it happened that hir yonger brother whose name was also Barthelmewe came by And she seeing by like the shadowe of his bodie or els hearing the noise of his feete cast her eye a litle a side and beheld her brother and so thought to returne to her foremer discourse againe But considering with her selfe what she had done she was toched at the hart with such an inward grief for that litle distraction that for a good tyme she held her peace and spake not one word but wept and wailed verie bitterly At the length the Friar that was there seeing that she made no end of weeping spake comfortable wordes vnto her and praied her that she would goe foreward in her godlie talke But she so sobbed and wept that she was not able to geue him one word to answere After a long spcae when she had wonne so much of her selfe that she was able to speake she began with her selfe after this maner Ah wretch that thou art thou shalt surely abide for it With that Friar Barthelmewe asked her what offence that should be that she tooke so heauiely Out vpon me vile wretch said she sawe you not while our Lord was shewing me his great mysteries and secrets how I turned myne eye a side to behold a creature Then the good man who had great wonder to see the tendernes of her conscience and therfore desired to excuse or qualifie her offence said vnto her Surrely mother it seemeth verie strange to me that you should make so great lamentation for a matter of so light importance for that turnyng aside for your eye endured so litle tyme that I assure you I could not espie it O father said she if you knewe how sharply our blessed Ladie rebuked me for that trespas vndoubtedly you would weepe and lament with me When she had said those wordes she held her peace and would speake no more of her reuelations but continued sorrowing and weeping for her offence vntill such tyme as she had made her Confession and so with heauie cheere she went home to her chamber She declared afterwardes to her ghostlie Father that S. Paul appeered to her also and reprooued her so roughly for that litle losse of tyme that she would rather suffer all the shame of the worlde then abide such an other rebuke at the Apostles hand And of that rebuke she tooke occcasion to speake to her ghostlie Father after this maner O Father saide shee thinke you what a confusion and shame that shal bee that all wicked and vnhappie synners shall abide at the later daie when they shal stand before the maiestie of God seeing that the presence of one only Apostle is so dreadfull and intolerable I assure you father the apostles wordes and contenance were so terrible to me that if I had not had comfort of a goodlie bright lampe that stood by while he spake to me I thinke verily my hart had neuer ben able to abide the same but would haue dyed for verie sorrowe that it had of that extreme shame and confusion And thus it pleased God now and then to put her in mynd of her owne frailtie especially after such great reuelations which otherwise might haue moued her hart to pride How it pleased God to reueale to her the worthynes and excellencie of the blessed Partriarke S. Dominicke and of his true children Chap 25. ON a tyme conferring with Friar Barthelmewe of the reuelations that our Lord had shewed vnto her emong other thinges she declared that she had seene in deed by a vision of imagination how almightie God the Father brought foorth his coequal true Sōne as it seemed to her by his mouth the which Sonne in the nature of mankind which he had taken shewed him selfe to her also in the substāce and fourme of a true man She sawe likewise how almightie God brought foorth the glorious patriarke S. Dominicke not out of his mouth but out of his brest enuironed round about with a meruelous goodlie light and brightnes And she heard a voice proceeding from the mouth of almightie God which said these wordes Deere daughter I haue brought forth as thou seest these two sonnes the one naturally the other by adoption She was much amazed at the strangenes of that comparision made betweene the Sonne of God and S. Dominicke Whereupon the voice proceded and declared the meanyng of it after this maner As this my natural Sonne was in his humane nature which he tooke euermore most perfectly obedient to me euen to death so was this my some by adoption obedient to me in all pointes euen from his childhood to his dying daie and directed all his workes according to my commaundementes and kept that puritie both of bodie and soule which he receiued of me in Baptisme cleane and vnspotted vntill the end of his life And as this my natural Sonne spake openly to the wordle and gaue a most cleere testimonie to the truth that I put in his mouth euen so did this my sonne by adoption preach the truth of my gospel as well to heretikes and scismatikes as also emong my faithful people And as this my natural Sonne sent out his disciples to publish the gospel to all creatures so doth this my sonne by adoption now at this present and shall hereafter from tyme to tyme send out his brethren and children vnder the yoke of his holie obedience discipline And for this cause is it graunted to him and his by special priuilege that they shall haue the true vnderstanding of my wordes and shall neuer swarue from the same And as this my natural Sonne ordained the state of his whole life in deedes and wordes to the saluation of soules euen so did this my Sonne by adoption emploie him selfe wholly both in his doctrine and in example
S. Dominicke and to his order Chap. 5. AFter that this yong virgin had thus espowsed her self to the Sonne of God she was wholly enflamed with the holie fire of his heauenlie loue in such sort that she had a passing great desire and zeale not only to be vnited her selfe to him with a pure and syncere loue but also to wynne other sowles also By reason of the which zeale she cast a speciall affection to those Sainctes that she vnderstood had taken paines specially about the bringyng of sowles vnder the sweet yoke and obedience of Christ And vnderstanding by reuelation from God that S. Dominicke had institued the order of the friars Preachers to that end she had the brethren of that order in such reuerence that when she sawe anie of them passing by her fathers howse she would goe after them with great humilitie and deuotion and kisse the verie steppes where they had set their feet She had also a meruelous great desire to be professed her selfe in that rule that she with the rest of the brethren might doe what in her laie to wynne some sowles vnto God But when she sawe that she might not doe so bicause she was a woman she thought to take an other waie which was to goe into some farre countreys and there to change her apparel and so to be receiued into some cloister for a man Thus she thought of her selfe but yet not altogether without some president For she had vnderstood befor of S. Euphrosina by whose name she was commonly called while she was a litle one peraduenture by Gods prouidence to for-signifie this holie designemēt that she had after such a maner chāged her attire and liued a verie religious and streight kind of life in a monasterie among men But though this desire and purpose continued long in her mynd yet at the lenght by her humble and continual praier she obteined at Gods hand to vnderstand that he would not haue her to take that waie wherupon she gaue it ouer Now this yong virgin waxed fast in the growth and stature of her bodie but much faster in the encrease of vertue in meekenes in deuotion in graue and womanlie behauiour demeanyng her selfe in all her wordes and deedes so discretly and with such an vnwonted grauitie in that age that her parentes acquaintance neighbours had her in great admiration Emongest a nomber of thinges that passed verie notably of that sort this one acte me thinketh is not to be passed ouer with silence It befell on a daie that her mother hauing a special deuotion to S. Anthonie would haue a Masse to be said in the honour of the said Saincte Wherupon she called her daughter vnto her and taking her certaine candels and money in her hand said these wordes vnto her Goe daughter said she to the church praie our parish Priest that he will sing or cause to be song a Masse in the honour of S. Antonie And offer vp this money and candels vpon the aulter She tooke the money and candels of her mother willingly as she was euermore verie glad and readie to doe whatsoeuer she was commanded by her parentes especially if it tended to the honour of God and wēt without anie tariance to the church and did as she was willed to doe And furthermore for her owne priuate deuotion she continued out the whole Masse and all the rest of the diuine seruice Now her mother thought she would haue returned home againe so soone as she had made her oblation vnto the Priest And therfore when she was come home to make her ashamed of her long tarying she spake vnto her as the maner of mothers is to speake vnto litle children Cursed be those wicked tongues said she that said my daughter should come no more She is come at the lenght though it be long first The child hearing those wordes held her selfe still for a while and gaue no word againe But after a good space when she had as it were well aduised her selfe she tooke her mother aside and with great sadnes of countenance said meekely vnto her Good mother when yee see that I do transgresse anie commandement of yours beate me with a rod as you shall thinke best that I maie be the more warie an other tyme for it standeth well with right and reason that yee so doe But one thing I praie you for my faultes curse no man or woman in the wordle good or bad for it is vnseemelie for you to doe it and to me it is a great griefe of mynd to heare it The mother was so astoined at the discrete answere and graue counsel of her yong daughter that for a good tyme she could not deuise how to say anie more vnto her How beit bicause she would not haue her to vnderstand so much she turned to her againe and said Whie werte thou then so long awaie Deere mother said she I taried to heare that Masse and the rest of the diuine seruice and that done I came streight home without tarying in anie place Then was the mother more edified by those wordes then she was before and went to her husbād and told him all that had passed betweene her and her daughter The which when he heard he weighed the matter like a wise man with him selfe and tooke it to be a verie certaine token of some great grace and singular holines that was like to ensue in his daughter who increasing daie by daie in the loue and feare of God lead her life in these and other the like woorkes of vertue and godlines vntill she came to the age of twelue yeares How shee relented somewhat in her spirituall exercises being therunto induced by the importunitie of her mother and sisters who would needes haue her to vse some diligence in trymyng and setting out of her selfe And of the penance which she did for that offence Chap. 6. WHen this maid was now come to the age of twelue yeares vpward her father and mother tooke great care how they might bestowe her honestly in mariage for the better perfourmance wherof that there might not lacke anie grace or comelines to set her foorth withal that either was in her by nature or might be had by diligence her mother after the maner of women in that countrey in deed rather much vsed then greatly commended was earnest with her that she should bestowe more tyme and diligence in washing and scowring her skynne in kembing and couloring her haire in plucking vp such haires as grewe in her face or necke disorderedly and in other the like vaine and superfluous attendances about the trymming and decking of her bodie to please the eyes of men But the yong spowse of Christ whose hart was wholly preuented with the loue of the fairest beawtifullest emong the sonnes of men who had also both the louelines of her spowse and her owne faith and truth so lately plight to him euermore present before her eyes could in no wise be
affection towardes the Church of God so did those wicked feendes increase their crueltie towardes her beating and bounsing her daie and night and withal filling her eares with their most horrible cries saying O thou cursed wretch thou hast euer ben against vs. But be thou well assured the tymes is now come that we will be euen with thee Thou hast oftentymes disappointed vs of our purposes And therefore now we will neuer geue thee ouer vntill we haue made a full riddance of thee in such sort that thou shalt neuer be able to hinder vs anie more Thus much the holie maid wrote her selfe in a letter to Doctour Raimundus her ghostlie Father And so she continued in such vexation and tormentes from the sonday of Septuagesima vntill the last sauing one of April on the which daie it pleased our Lord to call her out of this life How the holie maid obteined by praier that she might satisfie the iustice of God for the paines dwe to her father in Purgatorie Chap. 8. WHen Iames this holie maides father sawe that his daughter was wholly geuen to the seruice of God as it hath ben declared in the first part of this booke he cast a verie special loue and affection to her and entreated her in his house with great respecte and reuerence and had this opinion of her that she was able to obteine at Gods hand for him what she would And she likewise bare a verie singular loue and reuerence to her father and commended his health to God in her dailie praiers in most earnest maner It chaunced that her father fell into a verie grieuous sickenes kept his bed The which when she vnderstood she turned her selfe to God in praier after her accustomed maner and besought him that her father might recouer againe But answere was geuen her from God that the end of his daies in this life was come and that it was not expedient for him to liue anie longer With that she went foorthwith to her father to visite him and to examine him how he was disposed in his soule and found him readie and willing to passe out of this wordle whensoeuer it should please God to call him wherof she was verie glad and thanked our Lord with all her hart Then she praied furthermore that seeing our Lord had voutchsafed to call her father out of this life in the state of saluation it might also stand with his holie will and pleasure to make him this graunt that he might passe out of hand to the ioyes of heauen not be staied anie tyme in the paines of Purgatorie Whereunto our Lord made her answere that the order of iustice must needes be obserued which would not beare that anie soule should haue the fruition of those vnspeakeable ioyes vnlesse it were most perfectly purged before And though her father had lead a conuenient good life in his vocation and had done manie good workes also which were verie acceptable in the sight of God of the which one principal worke was the mainteinyng of her in religion yet there remained some rust of earthlie conuersation which of right must be tried out with the fyer of purgatorie When she heard that she made her praier to our Lord after this maner O most mercifull Lord how maie I abide that the soule of my deere father whome thou hast appointed to be the meane to bring me into this wordle by whome I haue ben so carefully prouided for in my tender age at whose hand I haue receiued so manie comfortes and reliefes by whose handie labour and charges I haue ben mainteined thus maine yeares in thy seruice should now be tormented with the paines of Purgatorie I beseech thee O father of mercies and God of all comfort for all the louing kindnes that euer thou hast shewed to mankind that thou wilt not suffer my fathers sowle to depart out of his bodie vntill it be by one meane or other so perfectly tried and purified that it need no further purgation A wonderful thing to consider After the tyme that the holie maid had said those wordes it was euidently seene that her fathers bodie decaied more and more as it did before to wardes death all his powers failing sensibly in such sort that all men sawe by the course of nature it could not continue anie tyme. And yet for so long time as she continued in praier wrestling as it were with almightie God and labouring to incline him in some degree if it were possible from iustice to mercie they might perceiue that his soule was holden in his bodie by some spiritual power and could in no wise depart At the length when she sawe that the iustice of God must needes be satisfied she said thus O most merciful Lord if it cā not otherwise be but that thy iustice must be answered I beseech thee turne thy iustice vpon me whatsoeuer paines thou hast appointed for my father laie the same vpon my bodie I will willingly beare them To that our Lord consented said vnto her Daughter for the loue that thou bearest to me I am content to graunt thee thy petition to transpose the paines due to thy father to laie the same vpon thee which thou shalt beare in thy bodie so long as thou liuest With that she thanked God most hūbly and said O Lord thy iudgemētes are all iust be it done to me as thou hast determined And so she made hast towardes her father who laie in extremes And she cōforted him meruelously with that glad tidinges wēt not frō him vntill he had geuē vp the ghost So soone as her father was departed she felt her selfe foorthwith pained with a grieuous disease in her side called Iliaca passio which neuer wēt frō her so lōg as she liued The which paine she bare not only patiētly but also cheerefully cōceiuīg such an inward ioy of that B. state that she knew her father was in that she litle esteemed the outward paine of her owne bodie In so much that at the tyme of her fathers departure when all other that were present made great lamentation she smiled sweetely and shewing great gladnes in her countenance said these wordes Deere father would God I were as you are Our Lord be blessed How the holie maid by praier brought her mother to life againe and so deliuered her from the paines of hell Chap. 9. AS the holie maid shewed her selfe to be a verie louing and duetiful child towardes her father so did she likewise afterwardes shewe the like loue and charitie towardes her mother as her duetie required Her mother Lapa was verie sicke and her sickenes grewe on her euerie daie more and more in such sort that there were seene in her great tokens of death and small hope of life All the which notwithstanding she was so drowned in the wordle that she might in no wise heare of death and be brought to confourme her will to the will of God When her daughter
especially Ginoccia which of the two liued in greater austeritie and penance When their brother Iames who was at that tyme abroade heard tell of this strange alteration of his two sisters he raged like a mad man and cursed all them that had moued his sisters to take that habite And he threatned verie boldly that he would teare those garmentes from their backes and bring them home againe And no man durst aduenture to staie him in that rage but only a yong brother of his that was in companie with him at that tyme who spake to him after this maner Brother Iames said he you are not acqueinted with this sister Catherine But if you goe to Siena you shall see she shall turne you also and make you to goe Confession To Confetsion said he I defie thee and them all Assure thy selfe I will cut the throtes of all those Priestes and friars before they shall bring me to confession Well brother said the child and he repeated his wordes oftentymes speaking with great affiance as though he had foreseene the euent of this matter in the spirite of prophecie you shall find my wordes true and shall see that the holie maid shall bring you to grace Those wordes set him in such a furie that he cursed and banned and fared like a man distracted And in this furie he entred into the citie and went foorth with to his fathers house where he tooke on like a madd man threatnyng and swearing that he would doe manie horrible mischiefes vnlesse they brought to passe that his sisters and specially Ginoccia might put off that habite and come home againe But his mother Rabes who was well acqueinted with his furious nature therefore feared lest he would of a sodaine do some mischieuous acte as his maner was came to him and with faire wordes staied his rage that he did no harme that night And the next morning she sent for Doctour Thomas beseeching him for Gods sake that he would take the paines to come and geue her sonne Iames some godlie exhortation Doctour Thomas came with him frier Bartilmewe And they spake manie good wordes to the impatient yong man but for ought that they could perceiue all in vaine All this tyme was the holie maid in praier and laboured earnestly to wynne that yong mans soule to God for she vnderstood not by the relation of anie man but only by reuelation from God in what a damnable state he stood and she sawe in spirite what paines those good men tooke to recouer him And it was euidently seene afterwardes by the proofe that our Lord blessed and furthered their charitable trauaile in that behalfe for the holie maides sake and in contemplation of her deuout praiers For when these men had spent a good tyme about him and sawe that they could doe him no good at the length while Doctour Bartilmewe was speaking to him behold of a sodaine and contrarie to all expectation the yong man being vndoubtedly touched by the finger of God resented and said of him selfe that he was verie well content and glad that his sisters should serue God in that holie rule and discipline And he required furthermore with great humilitie that he might be Confessed and absolued of his owne synnes that he might serue God with them also The which he did in deed verie perfectly to the great wonder and comfort of as manie as were there present which a litle before had seene him as fiercc as a lion and now as myld as a lambe His mother Rabes was a ioyful woman to see this strāge and blessed alteration in her sonne and so were all the rest of her familie with her Now when Doctour Thomas and Doctour Bartilmewe his companion had rendred thankes to almightie God for this great mercie shewed vpon that yong man they went out of hand with ioyful hartes towardes the holie maides lodging and thought the tyme long vntill they might impart these glad tidinges of his conuersion to her But when they came thither they vnderstood that the holie maid was aboue in an vpper chamber in praier and rauished as her maner was in spirite and one other of the sisters with her By reason wherof they were constreined to tarrie a while At the length when the holie maid was come to her selfe againe that other sister came downe to enterteine Doctour Thomas her Confessour who saluted her with a cheereful countenance and began foorthwith to declare the cause of his coming to her Sister said he we are come to bring you verie good newes Maister Iames Tolmes is by the grace of God become a newe man and this mornyng hath made a general Cōfession of all his synnes to Doctour Bartilmewe Father said that sister we haue great cause both to reioyse and also to thanke our Lord for these ioyful tydinges Howbeit they are no newes to vs for sister Catherine before I came downe to you told me so much as you tell me now And with that they went vp into the vpper chamber to the holie maid who immediatly vpon their entrie spake to them after this maner Fathers said she we are much bound to thanke our Lord and Sauiour that neuer dispiseth the humble praier of his seruantes And as he putteth holie desires into their hartes so doth he also accomplish the same to their benefite and comfort The wicked feend had thought to haue gotten a litle lambe of the which he had conceiued some hope But he hath through the vnspeakeable goodnes of God lost a great preie of the which he had full posession He laid for Ginoccia but he hath lost Iames. And so it falleth out oftentymes with this rauenous and insatiable wolfe that while he openeth his iawes wider to geat more he both letteth fall some better morsel that he had in his mouth before and yet misseth of that other thing that he so griedily snatcheth after Our Lord be blessed and thanked for euer more whose prouident wisedome disposeth all thinges sweetely and turneth the wilye malice of this suttle serpent to the benefit and comfort of his chosen seruantes After this Ginoccia continued without anie molestation in that holie state of life that she had vowed wherein when she had suffered manie sickenesses with a verie patient and cheereful mynd she passed out of this wordle to God with a meruelous inward sweetnes and comfort as it was euidently seene by the maner of her departure Soone after her sister Francis likewise tooke the habite and rule of the sisters of penance and therein continued with great commendation and opinion of holines so long as she liued which was in deed no long tyme. And it was noted of her also at the tyme of her passing out of this life that she smyled sweetely and shewed great tokens of spiritual ioye euen when she was at the verie point of death And this Iames their brother after that he was thus reclaimed by the deuout praier of the holie maid and diligence of
more phisicke vnto him When all men had geuen him ouer as a dead man a certaine deuout woman that was about him called Cecola Cartaria made a vowe to the blessed virgin S. Caterine in his behalfe and foorthwith the yong man began to amend and within a verie litle tyme was fully recouered of his disease In like maner a certaine woman called Gilia Petruccies when the phisicions had geuen their diffinitiue sentence that by the course of nature she must needes die made the like vowe to S. Catherine of Siena and with that found present ease of her paine and within a fewe daies after was perfectly restored to her health There was also at this tyme in the citie a certaine noble and deuout woman called Ladie Ione Ilperines which was well acquenited with the holie maide in her life tyme. And therefore seeing the miracles that were wrought after her death she conceiued the greater opinion of holines in her In so much that wheresoeuer she went to visite anie that were sicke and diseased she would alwaies perswade with them that they should commend them selues deuoutly to the holie virgin S. Caterine of Siena By the which meanes she procured the recouerie of a great manie that were sicke of diuerse and sundrie diseases On a tyme it chaunced that one of this ladies owne children sporting and runnyng rechlesly as yong children are wont to doe in an vpper lofte of the house fell downe headlong to the ground in her presence She seeing the sodaine fall of her child whome as a good mother she could not but loue tenderly and considering of the thing as it was like to be in the discourse of man which was that her sonne should either die presently or els at the least be sore crusshed that he should prooue but a criple or wraile all the daies of his life after cried out mightely and said O blessed S. Caterine of Siena I commend my child to thee It is a wonderful matter to consider that though the height and other condicions of the place from whence the child fell were such that in reason they might hope of none other but only present death yet when they came to take vp the child they found that he had no maner of harme in anie part of his bodie but was fully in as good case and liking after that great fall as he was before When the mother sawe that she gaue most humble thankes to almightie God and to his deere spowse S. Caterine and ceased not wheresoeuer she came to set out her holines and vertues to the vttermost of her power There was also a poore woman in the citie called good Ione which being a common landresse gate a poore liuing by seruing of others specially by washing of clothes This Ione wasshing on a tyme by the riuers side called Tiber happened emong other clothes to wash a quilte of the which one part was in the riuer and the other vnder her hand in washing But that part the swame in the riuer being heauier then the other of a sodaine drewe that part that was in wasshing from vnder her and so the whole was caried away with the swaie of the streame Whē the poore womā sawe the quilt gone knewe that if it were lost she was neuer able to paie for it hauing a greater care to recouer the quilt then to saue her selfe she reached so farre after it that she fell into the water also and was caried likewise a good waie from the land Being there in great distresse and destitute of all mans helpe it came to her mynd what great miracles were wrought at that time in the citie by the holie maid Wherupon she cried out said O blessed virgin S. Catherine of Siena helpe me now in this great need She had no sooner spoken those wordes but that foorthwith she was holpen vp by the almightie hand of God and brought against the course of the streame and set with the quilt in her hand vpon the bancke without anie helpe of man When she sawe her selfe there and could not imagin how she came thither she thāked God with all her hart and ascribed the benefite of her escaping from that present danger as it was in deed to the merites of B. S. Caterine Not long after the death of the holy maid doct Raimund being made the general ouer his whole order came to Rome as his charge required And being there translated the holie bodie of S. Caterine vpon that verie daie that she had prophecied that it should be done manie yeares before By trauailing wherin in other affaires apperteining to his office his bodie was distēpered in such sort that he had need to haue the aduise of some learned phisicion Wherupon he sent for one that dwelt ther by not farre from the monasterie called maister Iames of our Ladie the round which coming one time to visite doct Raimundus talking of the holy maid told him of a very strāge thing that had chaūced in his oune knouledge to a certaine yong man called Colas of Ciuccio This Colas lay sick in his father in lawes house whose name was Cincius Tancancim of a verie grieuous disease in his throte called the Squinancie Which increased so mightely vpon him that the phisiciōs gaue him ouer said plainely that by the course of nature he must needes die that within a verie fewe houers when the yōg mā was euen at the point of death Alexia hearing of it who loued Cincius wel bicause he was a deuout man and bare a singular affection to the holie maid in her life tyme went to the house in great hast and tooke with her a tooth of the holie maid which she kept as a great relike and iewel And when she came sawe the yong mā as it were vpon passing out of this wordle by reason that the aposteme had streightened his throte so much that he was euen at the point of choking she put the said tooth to his throte And foorthwith the aposteme brake and he lifted vp his head and auoided a great quantitie of rotten matter out at his mouth And within a very litle tyme he recouered perfectly gaue most hūble thākes to almighty God to his glorious spouse S. Caterine by the vertue of whose tooth he confessed in al companies in all places wheresoeuer he came that he had ben deliuered euen from present death In so much that one tyme when doctour Raimundus had made a sermon in the cōmendation of the holy maid had emong other thinges touched this present miracle the yong man being there at that tyme by chance stood vp befor al the people said these wordes It is true that yee saie maister doctour for I am the man vpon whom this great miracle was wrought At what tyme queene Ione of Sicilia sent Rainald of Vrsine with a great companie of men of armes against Pope Vrbane the sixt with purpose either to expell him out of