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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18332	The life of B. Aloysius Gonzaga of the Society of Iesus eldest sonne of Ferdinand Prince of the S.R. Empire, and Marques of Castilion. Written in Latin by the R. Fa. Virgilius Ceparius of the same society. And translated into English by R.S.	Cepari, Virgilio, ca. 1563-1631.; Stanford, Robert, attributed name.; R. S., gent.	1627 (1627)	STC 4912; ESTC S117299	267,919	562

Spayne being alwayes strictly tyed to the neere conuersation of Princes and great Noble-men and to the promiscuous commerce of all men of what condition soeuer as occasion serued And yet in the middest of the delicacies of his fathers house and the prouocations of the Court he preserued that integrity of lyfe which he put on as a white garment in his Baptisme pure from all blemish and vnspotted Wherfore most worthily did Cardinall Bellarmine vpon a certaine time when in a speach which he had with me and diuers others of the singular vertues of Aloysius euē then liuing by many arguments teach that there neuer wanted in this our Church although distressed with a doubtfull conflict certaine men of excellent sanctity of life who euen whilst they liued were confirmd in a stedfast degree of grace in the sight of Allmighty God namely adioyned these wordes In horum numero quitam arcta atque indissolubili necessitudine Deo sunt adiuncti equidem quem minimè fugit quid in eius mente agatur Aloysium nostrum Gonzagam collocandum censeo In the number of these which are adioyned vnto God with so strict and indissoluble a bond of friēdship surely I as one that is very well acquainted with the affaires of his mind thinke our Aloysius Gonzaga to be placed Furthermore the same Cardinall in that remarkable testimony authentically signed sealed added another certaine thing which with those that are not altogether ignorant of the leading of a holy retired course of life and that do prize the authority of this witnesse will moue far greater admiration For he affirmeth that B. Aloysius euen from the very seauēth yeare of his age led a perfect course of life euery way accomplished with the exact rules of sanctity The dignity of which prerogatiue I leaue to the estimation of the wise And it seemeth to haue bene the pleasure of allmighty God that euen the wicked spirits themselues should proclaime his sanctity of conuersation and the glory allready prepared for him in Heauen when he was but yet a child For when as a certaine religious man of that order of S. Francis which they call Friars Obseruants being of excellent fame whersoeuer he trauailed comming to Castilion rested in a Monastery of his Order called S. Maries one mile from the towne there was made great recourse vnto him to see him and request his prayers And for so much as the report went that he did some thinges aboue humane power many possessed and vexed with diuels were brought to him that they might be helped by his exorcismes There when this priest in the sight of a great assembly of people together with diuers noble-men and amongst these the child Aloysius and his other younger brother according to his custome cast forth diuerse execratios against the diuel those vncleane spirits cry out with a loud voyce and with a hand stretched forth towards Aloysius Videti sne illum hie demum est quem celum multa inibi manet gloria Do you see that boy he it is for whome heauen at the last much glory there is prouided That voyce was carried in memory diuulged throghout all Castilion Neither are there wanting those at this day who testify that they were present at the hearing of that speach And although there be no credit to be giuen to the words of Diuells who are the Fathers of lyes notwithstanding I could easily be perswaded that they to the intent they might be more ashamed of their owne madnesse were compelled by diuine force as often at other times to declare the truth For so singular was the opinion of men euen at that time of this holy young man that in his life and manners they did seeme to behould the forme of some Angell descēded from heauen For daily at home vpon his knees he recited those prayers that are called the Dayly Exercise the seauen psalmes the office of the Blessed Virgin either alone or togeather with some other companion and performed other offices of piety He was so accustomed in that sort to kneele vpon the bare ground at his prayers that he would not suffer a cushion or any such like thing to be put vnder his knees this afterward did he solemnly obserue in the whole course of his life as I shall after declare About that time he was vehemently hādled with a Quartane Feuer for the space of eighteene whole moneths although because at the first it was more extreme afterward it held him lesse in his bed In the meane while he patiently endured this infirmity neither did he euer omit but that he would daily say the Graduall the penitentiall Psalmes other set-prayers Notwithstāding sometimes when as he was more weake then ordinary he sent for some of the maides that waited vpon his Mother that so they might help to say with him for his ease These are the foundations which the B. Aloysius laid of Christian vertue when he was but seauen yeares of age that it ought not much to be merueiled at if afterward it brought him to so great a height as we shal declare herafter CHAP. V. He is brought by his Father to Florence to apply his studies VVHEN the Marques Ferdinand hauing staid more then two yeares in the Spanish Court after the voyage to Tunis returned into the territories of his ●owne Dominion as soone as he foūd Aloysius the head of his house full of modesty piety hauing laid downe his accustomed military ardour he did both admire that his 〈…〉 re towardlinesse prudence beyond his 〈…〉 ge and in like manner reioyced very much 〈…〉 hat he was prouided of an heyre so fit to 〈…〉 ouerue the people that were in his subiection But he being now eight yeares of age had far different designes in his mind had taken vnto him thoughts of a certaine higher degree of vertue Neither did he doubt vpon a certaine time to make thē known vnto his mother whom whē he had often heard say that if she shold be blessed with diuers children it wold be a most acceptable thing vnto her to see some one of them addicted to religion he in secret speaketh vnto her in this manner Mother sayth he you haue affirmed that it would be a thing acceptable vnto you if you might haue some one of your sonnes who might sort himselfe in some religious family surely I am confidēt that God will reward you for this gratious disposition And another day when he had iterated the same wordes he added that he hoped also that he should be that sonne His mother although for so much as he was her eldest as one disliking this speach brake it off and commaunded her sonne togeather with this his discourse out of her presence notwithstanding she laide them vp in her mind for that she saw him much conuersāt in the exercise of piety she belieued that it would come to passe as he had said allthough as he afterward confessed