2. In the yeare 1576. Hauing obtained of Pope Gregory the 13. a Iubily for the Citty of Millan he employed F. Francis â—erusco of the Society of Iesus to compile a treatise of the manner of gaining a Iubily So Guissano l 3. cap. 8. p. 146. c. 1. In the yeare 1576. he translated the bodyes of S. Fidelis and S. Carpophoâ—â— Martyrs from the Abbey of Arona to the Colledge of the Society notwithstanding the strong opposition of the inhabitants Se Gâ—issano l. 3. cap. 8. p. 147. 148. In the yeare 1578. Being to take a iourney into Sauoy to visite the sacred Sindon of Christ our Sauiour he tooke to accompany him in his iourncy F. Francis Adorno of the Society of Iesus and F. Iames Crucio with intention to make vse of him for his directour in the Spirituall Exercises which he intended to make in that iourney Se Guissano l. 5. c. 5. p. 216. c. 1. And in this iourney he caused F. Adorno ouer night to propose points of meditation to all his followers Se Guissano in the same place c. 2. Being to make an other pilgrimage to Monte Varallo a place adorned with the mysteryes of the passion of our Sauiour he would haue the same F. Adâ—â—â— along with him to be directed by him in the spirituall mannage of his life Se Guissano l. 5. cap. 6. p. 222. c. 2. In which pilgrimage whilst he visited those Chappels honoured with the memory of the passion of our Sauiour meditating of the mysteryes of the passion he tooke his points of Meditation from F. Aderno So Guissano in the place aboue meÌ„cioned p. 223 c. 1. Hauing founded a Colledge of Suitzers he ordained that the schollers of it should frequent the schooles of the Society So Guissano l. 5 c. 12. p. 238. col 1. In the yeare 1580. At Florence many men desiring to receaue the B. Sacrament at his haÌ„ds he made choice for that solemnity of the Colledge of the Society So Guissano l. 6. 3. p. 247. col 1. At Venier being requested to minister the Communion in generall for the satisfaction of the deuotion of the people who infinitely desired it he made choise for that purpose of the Colledge of the Society where also at the instance of the Popes Nuncio and the Patriarch of that Citty he preached So Guissano in the place aboue mentioned Two Colledges of the Society were founded in Switzerland by the meaneâ— of the B. Cardinall one at Luâ—erna the other at â—â—â—burg Se Guissano l. 6. c. 8. p. 265. col 2. In the yeare 1583. Being made Visitour Apostolicall of the valleyes of the Grisons infected with heresy amongst other assistants of so good a worke famous for their liues learning he made choise of F. Achilles Giliardo of the Society of Iesus to accompany him in this iourney dayly employing him in the explication of Christian beliefe Se Guissano l. 7. c. 4. p. 300. col 2. And being to place some good men in lieu of other scandalous Priests in those valleyes for the spirituall profit of the inhabitants he left behind him the Oblates of S. Ambrose an Order instituted by him selfe and highly esteemed by him and some of the Society of Iesus Se Guissano p. 302. col 1. He caused a Catechisme to be made by the said F. Achiles Galiardo for the help and instruction of them of that Country printed in the yeare following Se Guissano l. 7. c. 5. pag. 305. col 1. In the yeare 1584. Being sollicited by certaine of the Grisons to send thither some pious Preists to assist them in matters of faith good life amongst three he made choise of F. Francis Adorno was one who with the rest wrought much good amongst them So Guissano l. 7. cap 6 p. 307. c 2. The last month before his death being to make as his custome was the spirituall Exercises he caused F. Francâ—s Adorno to come to him being directed and obeying him as a man of holy life and long experience in affayres of spirit and direction of soules whose helpe he ordinarly vsed in the like cases Se Guissano l. 7. c 11. p. 317 c. 1. In this holy recollection in which before his death he made the spirituall Exercise vnder the conduct of F. Adorno he himselfe before day brought a candle to the said Father that he afterwards might raise the rest of his family who by his order also made the sayd Exercises in the same place And S. Charles bore so much reuerence to F. Adorno that he came with great silence into his chamber least otherwise he might wake him and passing by him bowed with reuerence to him notwithstanding that often tymes he perceaued him to be a sleepe So Guissano lib. 7. col 2. Passing by Arona in his returne to Millan and being inuited to see hunting by one Count Renato a kinsman of his who had prepared to shew him sport he refused it and tooke vp his lodging with the Fathers of the Society see Guissano l. 7. c. 11. p. 321 c. 1 And in that Church celebrated his last Masse Se Guissano in the same place In the last howers of his life he tooke counsell of F. Adorno in all things depending wholy of his obedience as his spirituall Father and Confessour who assisted him at his death with a crucifix in his hand putting him in mind of heauenly things Se Guissano l. 7. c. 12. p. 322. c. 1. And 323. c. 2. And c. 14. p. 329. c. 1. And l. 8. c. 3. p. 359. col 1. When F. Adorno of the Society of Iesus who assisted S. Charles at his death in the quality of his Ghostly Father was returned to his Colledge after the decease of the saint the same night S. Charles appeared to him clad in his Bishops robes with a countenance and face pleasant and shining with glory spake to him thus Our Lord sendeth death and our Lord restored life I am well and you shall soone follow me And it came to passe accordingly that within few moneths after F. Adorno deceased at Genua with an opinioÌ„ of sanctity So Guissano l. 9. cap. 14. p. 329 col 1. And it is a great argument of the extraordinary opinion S. Charles had of the institution and gouernement of the Society of Iesus that as a familiar freind of the Society and one who reuerenced that Order he would haue his owne houshould as neare as was possible ordered according to the Rules and Institutions of the Society giuing the names and epithetes vsuall in the Society to diuers Officers of his owne houshould of which thing see Guissano in his second booke third fourth and fifth Chapter and elswhere Certaine Spirituall admonitions of S. Ignatius CHAP. XXII IT would exact a great volume to include all these spiritual admonitioÌ„s with which as with so many pretious stones the Bookes and sundry Epistles of S. Ignatius are adorned Some few of them therfore shall here be mentioned and these in his owne words that omitting many
subiects counselled her vtterly to retrench and renounce all such freindships a thing which appeared some what rigorous in her eye when she reflected vpon the ingratitude if it But the Father vrged that she would haue recours to prayer enioyning her for some dayes the hymne of the holy Ghost for obtayning light in that particular which she seriously vndertocks and praying some what long for that intention vpon a certayne day she was surprised with a suddaine extasie which till that tyme was a thing vnvsuall with her and being welneare depriued of her senses she heard these words within the center of her soule It is my will that now thou hould freindship with Angels not with men VVhich words added so strong a resolution to her brest that in a moment she ouercame herselfe in that which for many yeares to geather by great industry and much importunity she could not conquer in herselfe From this tyme forward our mercifull God began to speake to her and often conuerse with her Thus he Of the glory deriued to S. Ignatius from S. Philip Nerius CHAPTER XX. BEfore we treat of the meanes by which S. Philip Nerius increased the glory of S. Ignatius we will breifely touch who and how eminent a man this S. Philip was He was therfore the Founder of the Congregation of the Oratory which as it hath begotten many famous meÌ„ so amoÌ„gst others it produced that renowned writer of Ecclesiasticall Annales Caesar Baronius and Thomas Bazius author of the two Tomes of the maker of the Church whose spirituall Master and Father B. S. Philp was amongst all other Christian vertues in which he was eminent he euer preserued his virginity vntouched besides which he had a miraculous guift bestowed vpon him of discerning in chast persons the perfume of chastity and in others the ranknes and stench of vnchastity He was famous for the guift of Prophecy he arriued to the knowledge of many things concealed farre from him and such as were the most intimate secrets of mens harts he foretould things to come he was vsually comforted with the apparitions of Christ and of his Angells and Saints He appeared to many in his life tyme releeuing them in their afflictions he cured sick persons without number and recouered men gasping at deaths dore he restored one dead man to life in his life tyme another after his owne decease to omit many other glorious miracles wrought by him he was seene raised from the ground in the tyme of his Masses and other deuotions he reclaimed many men from their sinefull to a vertuous and religious life he was euer held in great veneration of all men In conclusion he ended his dayes at Rome full of merites the 26. day of May the yeare of our Lord 1595. in the 80. yeare of his age This eminent man was a familiar acquaintance of S. Ignatius at whose hands he sought long before his institution of the Congregation of the Oratory to haue beene admitted into the Society as his familiar freinds the two Cardinalls Cusane and Bellarmine to whom he himselfe had often tould it bore witnesse of him after his decease but he receaued a deniall from S. Ignatius as a man designed by the prouidence of God for some other Institution beneficiall to the Church howbeit he was euer a tender louer of the Society as wel in the life tyme of S. Ignatius as after of whom as Gallonin amongst other sworne witnesses testifieth in the 15. page of his life published at Rome in Latin S. Philip was wont to say that S. Ignatius was a man of that sanctity that the interiour beauty of his soule shewed it selfe in him exteriourly professing to haue often seene rayes of brightnes to proceed from his eyes and countenancd which thing as well the Auditours of the holy Rote as Cardinalls of the holy Rites vnderstood to be an euideÌ„t token of his sanctity No merueile then if S. Philip being an eyewitnes of the sanctity of S Ignatius was wont to haue recourse to him for counsell in his doubts and was comforted with the only sight of him when he was afflicted in mind and that after the death of S. Ignatius he euer cherished that freindship begun with the Society Besides when he changed his place of habitation froÌ„ S. Hierom. to a place neare the Church of S. Maria in Valicella for many yeares after as long as he continued Gernerall of the Congregation of the Oratory he vsed for his Ghostly Father F. Iohn Baptista Perusco of the Society of Iesus a man of holy life and well versed in affaires of spirit And afterwards hauing resigned his Office of Generall to Cesar Baronius one of the same Congregation and begun to vse him for his Ghostly Father which was two yeares before his death beiÌ„g then worne out with yeares vnable to betake himselfe to F. Perusco dwelling farre from him he was often accustomed notwithstanding at certaine tymes of the yeare to addresse himselfe to him and by a Generall Confession to giue him an account of his conscience Of the glâ—ry accrewing to S. Ignatius by S. Charles Borromeus CHAP. XXI THat matchlesse example of Sanctity S. Charles Borromeus Cardinal and Arch-Bishop of Milan was not the least cause of S. Ignatius his glory of whom he euer bore a pious memory after his decease by the vse of his booke of Spirituall Exercises arriued to that emineÌ„t degree of sanctity notorious to the whole world and as much as he could conueniently perpetually made vse of his Society as appeareth by many conuinâ—ing arguments out of the memorable things done by S. Charles published by certaine domesticall Prelats of his Iohn Peter Guissano Grattarolio and others In the yeare 1562. S. Charles being to receyue holy Orders and desiring worthily to prepare himself to offer vp his first Sacrifice of the Masse to Almighty God he made choise for that purpose of the house of the professed Fathers of the Society at 〈◊〉 where he prepared himselfe with the Spirituall Exercise of S. Ignatius Founder of the said Society So writeth M. Aurelio Graitarolio in his Italian Booke of the successes of the veneration of S. Charles and in an Oration made vpon his anniuersary day before an other Cardinall Borromeus the Clergy and people of Millan the yeare 1601. The same S. Charles when he had with great pompe ceremony celebrated his first Masse in publike to satisfy the deuotion of the people that he might more freely comply with his owne priuate deuotion he would celebrate his second Masse the next day in the house of the professed Fathers of the Society and that in a priuate Chappell S. Ignatius was woÌ„t to vse where he watched that whole night Se Sachinus in his history of the Society part 2. lib. 7. n. 11. In the yeare 1562. In the first beginning of his Priest hood he began also with more then ordinary austerity and frequent prayers to dedicate himselfe to the exercises of vertue In
studies being ended and all other respects set aside they would take their iourney to Hierusalem and wholy apply themselues there to the gaining of soules but if within a yeares space they should light vpon no commodity of shipping or should not be permitted to remayne at Hierusalem that then their vowe being dispeÌ„sed with they should repaire to Rome offering their seruice to his Holines for the spirituall good of their neighbours But he himselfe hauing contracted a grieuous payne in his stomacke by his continuall laborious watchings and studies and hauing with the rest of his Companions after a strict examen demaunded by themselues and graunted them been honoured with the degree of Doctor in that Vniuersity at last by the counsell of his CoÌ„panions and aduise of Phisitians he returned to his natiue Country Where after the working of many miracles when he had recouered his health he tooke his iourney towards Venice whether the rest of his CompanioÌ„s by agreement were likewise to repaire and in that Citty was preferred to the dignity of Preisthood But the yeare aboue mentioned being now expired and their embarquing for Palestin cut off by reason of the warres broken fort betwixt the Turke and the Venetians he with his Companions came to Rome in the yeare 1537. At Rome he presented his seruice to his Holines for the gaining of his neighbour The Pope approued the pious resolutions of these Fathers reclaming many soules by the industry of S. Ignatius and his spirituall exercises and placed two of Ignatius his Companions in the Roman Vniuersity commonly knowne by the name of Sapientia there to read the publike lectures of Scripture and schoole Diuinity Meane while S. Ignatius instituted the Society of IESVS for the defence and propagation of the Faith and the gaining of soules and procured to haue it ratified by the Sea Apostolike in the yeare 1540. in which Society besides the three vowes common to it with other Orders he added a fourth vowe by which promise is made to obey his Holines in vndertaking iourneyes to the Turks and Infidels for the gaining of soules without demaunding any stipend or prouision for that iourney Which done he composed the Constitutions of the Society directed by admirable Diuine inspiratioÌ„s as shall hereafter be declared And being himself by the vniforme consent of his Companions chosen General of the Order after he had gouerned it with an admirable reputation of wisdome and sanctity for the space of fifteene yeares three monethes and nine dayes and dispersed welneare a thousand of his Society in almost a hundred seuerall Colledges ouer the whole world not only in Italy Spaine France and Germany but euen in the East and vvest Indies Iaponia Brasil Ethiopia Persia infinite multitudes of people being conuerted by him and his to the true Faith and good life hauing instituted many â—â—â—gs for the good of tâ—â—â—oly Church brought to a câ—stome the often frequenting of Sermons Lectures Masses Confession and Communion in Rome first and afterwards in other places of the world hauing by these meanes discouered the subtility of the Diuell and set a new lustre vpon the face of the Church he ended his dayes of a gentle ague full of merites strengthned with the Popes blessing and the Sacraments according to the rites of the Church and gaue vp his Ghost most peaceably into the hands of his Creatour inuoking the name of IESVS in the yeare 1556. the last day of Iuly the 65. yeare of his age famous for his holy life and miracles as wel in his life tyme as after his decease and for other rare endowments of which we now treate The gift of Prophecy in S. Ignatius most perfect CHAP. III. BEcause the gift of Prophecy in comparison of supernaturall vertues is esteemed one of the ordinary or meanest ornaments of Sanctity and therfore to be attained without grace or Gods frieÌ„dship from thence I thought good to begin the prayses of S. Ignatius And for as much as by the Spirit of Prophecy many things not subiect to our senses are discouered and things yet to come are infallibly foretould the secrets of mens harts are layd open and which is more admirable rare the very secrets of Almighty God surpassing human vnderstanding are perfectly vnderstood all these things were in S. Ignatius in as eminent degree The very first yeare immediately after his conuersion Almighty God began admirably to enlighten his vnderstanding for going for deuotion sake to visit a Church of S. Paul the Apostle without the Towne of Manresa resting himselfe in his iourney neare the Riuer Rubricate which ruÌ„nes through that Towne vpon a suddaine a certaine diuine light shined so cleare vpon him that by that without the helpe of any Master he perfectly vnderstood many things not only of the mysteries of Christian beliefe but of the most subtile questions and opinions of Philosophy as perfectly as if they had been presented to his view in some curious looking glasse mysteryes which other me after long reading and paynes hardly comprehend In which celestiall vision he remayned a long space not without infinite comfort and consolation of mynd Ar other tymes also by certayne secret signes and mysticall examples the order that great workeman obserued in the Frame of this world was represented vnto him which mysteryes as in themselues they surpasse the forces of human vnderstanding so S. Ignatius afterwards affirmed that it was a thing not possible to ghesse at them much lesse to expresse and make them vnderstood to life And of this kind about the same tyme he miraculously came to to the knowledge many other things By which diuine fauours he was so far forth confirmed in Faith that though no other monuments had been extant of Christian Religion yet by these only mysteryes miraculously reuealed to him he would haue been most ready to giue his life for the Catholike truth In which respect S. Ignatius may well apply to him selfe those words of S. Paul For neither haue I receaued it from men neither haue I learned it but by the reuelation of Christ Iesus Which extraordinary manner of faith infused in S. Ignatius whilst yet he was vnlearned as well the Auditours of the holy Rote as the Cardinalls of the holy Rites particularly noted in their relations to his Holines His course of studies being ended at Venice in his retirement to Vicenza and in his iourney to Rome he often receaued so many diuine reuelations and so absolute and perfect content and consolation that he seemed not only to be restored againe but to be restored with aduantage to the state in which he had formerly found himselfe at Manresa which place for the singular fauours shewed him there by Almighty God he was wont in a religious merriment to stile his primatiue Church At such tyme as he composed the Constitutions of the Society amongst other things he principally receaued reuelations of the mystery of the B. Trinity of the diuine Essence of the distinction
wrote to him he did it with reuerence vpon his knees and in his Reliquary he wore the name of S. Ignatius cut out of a letter of his to him as the relique of some great Saint whilst yet he was aliue He suffered himselfe to be guided like a child by S. Ignatius depending wholy of him and euer cherishing in his brest an admirable opinion of his sanctity which vpon all occasions he desired to expresse VVhich words saith S. Chrisostome in the like subiect hom 1. ad populum do sufficiently demonstrate and speake all his vertues for the iudgments of Saints goe not either by fauour or disfauour but are to be held vnquestionable The B. Virgin S. Teresia added much to the glory of S. Ignatius CHAP. XIX IF the glory of the Father be the wise child as holy writ expresseth the B. Virgin S. Teresia that glorious Foundresse of the Disealced Carmelites a woman so famous for her admirable and heroicall vertues who by those eminent degrees of Contemplation arriued to so fast a freindship with Christ renowned for her writings of mysticall Diuinity glorious for her patience and sufferance of labours one so higly esteemed through the Christian world for her reformation of the Carmelytes an elect spouse of Christ who through her vehemency of diuine loue was often surprised with extasies a woman famous for that fiery Cherubins dart piercing her brest one inflamed with an vnquencheable desire and thirst of soules adorned with the flower of pure Virginity glorious ouer the Christian world for her celestiall visions her spirit of prophecy her manifold guift of cures in her life tyme and after this sacred Virgin I say added much to the glory of S. Ignatius as one who acknowledged herselfe a child of his Society making vse of the Fathers of it for her confessions and the whole manage of her spirituall affayres and miraculously came to the knowledge of many things in praise of the Society leauing testimonyes of it both by word and writing and particularly in her Lise written by her selfe by the commaund of a certayne great Diuine of the Order of S. Dominick Out of which Life translated afterwards into Italian printed at Rome in the yeare 1601. and dedicated to Pope Clement the eight by the Arch-Bishop of Auignion I will here relate some passages translated word by word into Latin In the 5. Chapter and 47. page of the said life S. Teresia writeth thus I Remained in this blindnes aboue 17. yeares as I remeÌ„ber til a certaine learned Father of the Order or S. Dominick opened my eyes in some things and they of the Society of Iesus possessed me intyrely with such feares to wâ— that certaine sinnes were not to be esteemed trâ—fles which some ignorant Ghostly Fathers had taught her to be no sinns aggrauating my ill conceaued principles as I will relate hereafter c. In the 23. Chapter and 236. page of the same life S. Teresia writeht thus VVHen the Fathers of the Society of Iesus arriued here to whom I not knowing any of them found my selfe much addicted only because I had vnderstood as well of their insight into matters of Spirit as of their maÌ„ner of Praier but I found not worth in my selfe to discourse with them nor strength enough to obey them c. And againe in the same Chapter page 239. the speaketh thus IT was for my greater good that I came to know and deale with men so holy as they of the Society of Iesus It is here by the way to be noted that one Antony Kerbeke an Augustin Friar in his Latin version of the life of S. Teresia published at MeÌ„ts the yeare 1603. and printed by Iohn Albin hath omitted this almost all things els written by S. Teresia in praise of the Society But what his drift was in it it is hard to iudge And in the 244. page I Was afflicted suspecting my owne misery that they of the houshould should see me deale with persons of such Sanctity as they of the Society I seemed to haue the greater obligation not to become so miserable and to depriue my self of my idle recreations And againe page 246. in the end of the Chapter S. Teresia writeth BLessed be God who gaue me grace howsoeuer vnperfectly to obey my ghostly Fathers who for the most part were those blessed men of the Society of Iesus and my soule afterwards began to perceaue a manifest amendment as now I will relate In the 24. Chapter and 249. page she writeth thus of the Society I Dwelt not farre from them reioysing much that I could haue often communication with them for my only knowing of the holines of their conuersation was the cause of that great proficience I discouered in my soule In the 33. Chapter and 364. page writing of a certaine iourney she made with licence of her Prouinciall I Was much comformed when I vnderstood that in that place there was a House of the Society of Iesus In the 38. Chapter and 421. page she writheth thus of the Society SAint Teresia here in her originall manuscript expresseth the name of the Society and reported the same by word of mouth witnesse Ribera in his life of S. Teresia printed at Rome in the 4. Booke 5. Chapter and 207 page which life the Reuerend Father Friar John a Iesu Maria discalced Carmelite in his abridgement of S. Teresia's life printed at Rome in the yeare 1609. and dedicated to Pope Paul the first stileth a history most worthy to be credited in his 1. Book 1. Chapter and 4. page thus say S. Teresia writeth of the Society I saw admirable things of some Religious persons of a certayne Order and of the whole Order in generall I oftentymes saw them in Heauen with white banners in their hands and at other tymes I had the like visions full of admiration In which respect I hould the said Order in great veneration as one who haue long conuersed with them and perceaue their liues to be conformable to that which Almighty God hath reuealed to me of them The same is to be read in the life of S. Teresia pag. 303. published in Latin by Martin Martinez and printed at Collen by Iohn Kinckius in the yeare 1620. And in the same Chapter in the page 430. of her life S. Teresia writeth thus FInding my selfe thus much afflicted in soule and body in a certaine Church of the Society of Iesus where I was hearing the Masse which one of the Fathers said for a Brother of the Society lately deceased I saw him enter into Heauen with great glory and by a particular fauour accompany the Maiesty of our Lord. In the 39. Chapter and 447 page towards the end BEing saith she in a Church of a certaine Colledge of the Society whilst the Brothers of that Colledge were receauing the B. Sacrament I saw a precious garment or as the Italian translation stileth it Pallio hang ouer their heads and this I saw twice but when other
people communicated I saw no such thing In the. 40. Chapter and 455. page of her life she speketh thus of the said Society of Iesus witnesse Ribera in her life writen by him in his 4. Booke and 5. Chapiter BEing vpon a tyme at my prayers with great recollection peace and quietnes I seemed to my selfe to be placed neare God and inuironed with Angels where I besought his diuine Maiesty for the good of the Church And it was reuealed to me what profit should accrew to the Church by a certayne Religious Order in the later dayes together with the fortitude with which that Order should vphold the Church And Ribera in the place aboue mentioned expresseth these words spoken then by Christ to S. Teresia to haue been vnderstood of the Society of Iesus as Martin Martinez translateth them pag 307. Oh if thou didst know what supplies those men shall bring to the decaying Church in after ages c. Which vision she saith she often had And howbeit in that life of S. Teresia which goeth about in print the name of the Society is not particularly expressed yet in the originall life and in all written copies I haue seen of it the name of the Society is particularly vsed And these words of our Sauiour she repeateth againe in the 40. Chapter howsoeuer not expressing the name of the Society which as I said is apparent and receaued from the mouth of S. Theresia her selfe So Martinez The said S. Teresia hearing one day the Masse of F. Balthazar Aluarez of the Society of Iesus her Ghostly Father saw him crowned with a Crowne of wonderfull brightnes all the tyme his Masse endured as Lewis de la Puente recounteth in the life of F. Aluarez c. 6. § 1. pag. 69. It was reuealed to S. Teresia that the said F. Aluarez her Ghostly Father should be saued and our Sauiour shewed her an eminent place in Heauen which he was to enioy adding that he was at that present arriued to so high a degree of perfection in this world as was not exceeded by any man then aliue that according to that degree his seate in Heauen was prepared that he was gon beyond the perfection of all creatures then vpon the earth and yet then the Church of God was well stored with men of rare Sanctity as well in the Society as out of it This reuelation S. Teresia discouered to F. Baltazar himselfe and other Fathers of the Society and to some of her owne Monastery other Religious persons who reported it as a truth infallible She noted it also in her secret Notes which fell afterwards into the hands of Diego Iepesio Bishop of Tarazona who set forth her life in Spanish in the yeare 1606. and dedicated it to Pope Paul the fifth amongst which Notes he finding this reuelation imparted it to others as Lewis de la Puente writeth in the life of F. Aluarez § 2. pag. 124. and 126. The said S. Teresia being demaunded by one of her NuÌ„ns whether she thought it would any way auaile her to be directed by F. Aluarez replied that it were a great mercy of Almighty God to her for quoth she he is one to whom my soule oweth more then to all others in this world and who hath more assisted â—â—d directed me in the way of perfection So writeth Lewis de la Puente in the life of F. Aluarez cap. 11. in the beginning of the page 117. The same S. Teresia appearing many yeares after her death to a certaine seruaÌ„t of God of approued vertue credit and one particularly deuoted to herselfe and comforting her in her afflictions amoÌ„gst other things vttered these words And I my selfe quoth she am a child of the Society and had one of that Order for my Ghostly Father whom now I see and honour in Heauen Which she vnderstood of F. Aluarez for though she had other Ghostly Fathers also of the Society yet he remained longest so and with great industry assisted her to put in execution those her aspiring thoughts and of whom she boasted that he had been her Ghostly Father and Master Se Lewis de la Puente in the life of F. Aluarez cap. 58. § 1. page 607. The same S. Teresia knew by reuelation of the death of fourty Fathers and Brothers of the Society martyred by the heretikes in their iourney to Brasill and as soone as they were put to death reuealed it to F. Aluarez her Ghostly Father that she had seene theÌ„ with crownes of Martyrdome in Heauen As Diego Iepesio Bishop of Tarazona writeth in the life of S. Theresia lib. 3. cap. 7. pag. 152. The same S. Theresia saw the soule of F. Gutierez of the Society of Iesus who died in France for the faith by the miseryes sustained in prison carried in triumph into Heauen with a Laurell of Martyrdome as is to be read in the life of F. Suarez printed at Lions 1620. in the begining of his first Tome de Graâ—â—a But they of the Society who haue either been Ghostly Fathers of S. Teresia or els at her intreaty haue had the examination of her spirit or reuelations and haue approued them are these following as they are mencioned by the writers or translatours of S. Teresia's life B. Francis Borgia F. Antony Araoz F. Giles Gonzalez F. Balthazar Aluarez F Martin Gutiers F. Salagar F. Ripalda F. Paul Hernandez F. Rodorignez Aluarez F. Santander F. Francis Ribera F. Henriquez F. Bartholmew Perez others singularly expert in matters of spirit whose names the Reader may find in the abridgment of the life of B. Mother Teresia set forth at Rome by the Rd. Father Friar Iohn discalced Carmelite in his 1. booke 1. chapter and 8. page and 1. booke 10. chapter and 51. page and 4. booke 4. and 5. chapters 227. 231 pag. And in Ribera 4. booke 7. Chapter and 316. page of his Roman edition in Italian And in the 8. page of the Italian abridgemeÌ„t published at Rome this present yeare And in the preface of Cosmo Gacci annexed to the Italian life of S. Tertsia And in the Epistle dedicatory of the said life printed in Latin at Collen by Iohn Kinckius And that S. Teresia drew those first beginnings of her more tender and entire freindship with Almighty God from the aduise and couÌ„sel of a Ghostly Father of hers of the Society the R. Father Iohn a Iesus Maria discalced Carmelite witnesseth in his abridgement of her life lib. 1. c. 10. pag. 51. in these words About that time saith he her Ghâ—stly Father deceased at Abâ—â—a a thing which much afflicted her because she coÌ„ceaued she should hardly find another to succeed him so answerable to her desire Yet she chose another of the same Society who discouering that out of a noblenes of disposition in her she would not suffer herselfe to be behind hand with any person who bore her any affection in the way of freind-ship in such things nouerthelesse as lesned not her affection to heauenly