out the Jaws of Hell into the Hands of his Creator He recovered immediately a certain Man called Bastida who had been many years sick of the Falling-Sickness by casting up his Eyes and Prayers for him to Heaven He often chased the Devil out of possessed Persons by the Sign of the Cross. He restored a Woman to health who lay half dead of a Consumption He delivered one Simon Rodriguez being also at Death's door from his Disease by a pious Embrace Iohn Baptista Coco who by accident one Evening had so burnt his Hand that it became utterly unserviceable and disabled for any manual Function the next day by his Prayers had his Hand healed and restored Returning sick into his own Countrey of a quotidian Ague and Preaching often in the open Fields because the Churches were not capable of the Concourse of People howbeit his weakness would not permit him to raise his Voice aloud yet every word of his Sermon was perfectly and distinctly heard and understood by all Men for the space of more than 300 Paces Coming once to visit one Alexander Petroâ—io who lay sick in a dark and close Chamber and Bed in regard the Windows and Doors were kept shut to keep out the light he replenished the Room with the supernatural splendour of his Face and recovered the sick Person He freed one Elutherio Pontano who had been grievously molested for the space of more than two years with certain foul tentations of the Devil by his only seeing and discoursing with the Party The College of Loretto being fearfully haunted with Spirits appearing in sundry foul shapes of Men and Beasts and the ordinary Exorcisms and other Ceremonies usually havitg been applied and those fearful Apparitions nevertheless not ceasing the Rector of the College addressed himself by Letters to St. Ignatius commending the business to his holy Sacrifices and Prayers who no sooner received news of it but he absolutely freed the House from those haunts of ill Spirits by his Prayers and Letter not for the present only but for ever after St. Ignatius his Linnen being washed with devotion by a certain devout Woman restored life and motion to her withered and dead Arm. One Isaac a Jew refusing with a passionate obstinacy to become a Christian and contemning courtesies and all other courses taken with him by others was by St. Ignatius soon satisfied appeased and perswaded to be Baptised by the only uttering of these three words Mane nobiscum Isaac A certain Person of Note being of a more turbulent Spirit than was fit longer to be endured and St. Ignatius not being able by gentle perswasions to cure his diseased Mind changing at last his stile and beginning to call upon the Justice of God and represent unto him the Vengeance of Heaven he did it with such a feeling and expression of servour that the Walls and House appeared to him to tremble and shake with horrour with the sight of which the standers by being stricken immediately fell upon their Knees imploring the Mercy of God by their Prayers and Vows and the Delinquent prostrating himself at the Feet of St. Ignatius and with a Voice of Confusion begging pardon for his offence promised from thence forward an amendment of himself Father Leonard Kesselius residing at Colen had a vehement desire to see St. Ignatius then at Rome above 300 Leagues distant from thence and having besought the B. Father by Letters that it might be lawful for him to travel on foot to Rome he made answer that his presence was necessary at Colen for the good of others enjoining him besides not to stir from thence for that Almighty God peradventure by some other course might so provide that he might see him without the pains and toil of so tedious a journey the Father therefore being one day at his Prayers St. Ignatius appeared unto him being yet alive and breathing and discoursed long with him to his infinite contentment The B. Father lying often sick if in the mean time any difficulty hapned for the solving of which his virtue and wisdom was required he seemed in a manner to be perfectly recovered and his Mind guiding his Body appeared a sound Man so that it became familiar to them of the Houshold as often as he fell sick to desire that some Business of Consequence might happen for the facilitating of which St. Ignatius might rise and be quit of his Disease 2. Divers Miracles wrought by St. Ignatius after his decease In the Processes for the Canonization of St. Ignatius commenced by the Authority of the Ordinaries first and afterwards by that of the See Apostolick more than 200 Miracles are related wrought by the Merits and Intercession of St. Ignatius after his decease besides which there are divers others as authentical not yet published because those former for his Canonization were more than sufficient confirmed nevertheless by the grave Testimonies of Men beyond exception and Printed at Rome and other Parts of Italy in Spain and in Germany and other Places by the approbation of them whom it concerneth to approve them Here only I will relate some few because my brevity promised will not permit many When the Body of St. Ignatius lay exposed upon the Bier for the performance of his Funeral Rites one Bernadina a Roman had a vehement desire to bring a Daughter of hers who had been long troubled with the Emcroids so grievously that no Art of Physick could cure her to kiss the Hands of his dead Body assuring her self the recovery of her Daughter by that touch but the Daughter transported often times by the press of People not being able for the throng to approach near the Body her Mother laid hold of a piece of his Garment and had no sooner applied it to her Daughters Body but she was quit of her Disease Father Nicholas Bobadilla having been long sick of an Ague was recovered by lying in the Bed of St. Ignatius At Manresa a certain Lady of Quality feeling no living motion of her Child in her Womb for the space of three hours before she was brought to Bed at last was delivered of a dead Child the unfortunate success of which being much lamented by the standers by the rather because the Child had not been Christned the Midwife about half an hour after the delivery of the Woman implored with confidence the help of St. Ignatius and had scarce begun her Prayers but the Child before pale and black returned now to Life St. Ignatius being besought for the Life of a little dead Intant of an Indian Woman restored the Child to Life He restored many blind Men their Sight deaf Men their Hearing lame Men their Limbs cured Men stricken with the Palsie others given over by the Physicians and lying at deaths door he restored perfectly to their Health He appeared to many after his decease either delivering them from grievous tentations or freeing them from their Diseases or other dangers or giving them good Counsel or foretelling
being ended the Virgin rose up as from sleep and cleansing her Face from the dust and sweat filled the Congregation with wonder and Joy Now in the place where the Head was rejoyned to the body there appeared a white circle compassing the Neck small as a white Thred which continued so all her life and from that white circle she had the name of Winefrid and after her death when she appeared to any that white mark was alwayes visible The place where her blood was shed is at this day called St. Winefrids Well The stones likewise both where the Springs gusheth forth and beneath in the Current having been sprinkled with her blood retain the redness to these times which colour neither the length of many Ages nor the continual sliding of the water over them has been able to wash away And moreover a certain Moss which sticks to the said stones renders a fragrant odour like Incense Cr. p. 389. St. Clare an Hermit when come to years of maturity was by his Parents affianced to a beautiful Virgin but when the time wherein the Marriage was to be solemnized approached the young Man withdrew himself form his Parents House and out of Britany passed over into France but there a Noble Woman dwelling near him inflamed with lust impudently attempted his Chastity but St. Clare resolutely resisted the shameless Lady notwithstanding which resistance when her sollicitations still more and more increased he was forced to forsake his Monastery the lascivious Lady desperately inraged with his departure sent two Murderers in search of him who at last found him in a poor Cottage there they set upon him with opprobrious speeches and at last drawing out their Swords they cut off his Head St. Clare presently after arose and with his Hands taking up his Head by the assistance of Angels carried it to a Fountain not far distant into which he cast it and then carried the same back to the Oratory of his Cell and going on a little further towards a Village near the River Epta he there consummated his Course Cr. p. 411. Two Kentish Princes Ethelred and Ethelbert being murdered and buried under the Seat where the King was wont to sit the Murder was most miraculously discovered wherefore taking up the Bodies and honourably putting them in Coffins the Arch-bishop Theodorus commanded to carry them to Christ-Church in Canterbury but in vain they attempted this for with all the force they could use they could not remove them out of the place whereupon changing his purpose he advised to transport them to the Church of St. Augustin but with as little success as before at last it was agreed they should be carried to the Monastery of Wering of great renown in those days which being resolved upon the Bodies were as easily removed as if they had no weight at all being arrived at that place the Bodies were buried near the great Altar where many wonderful Miracles are daily wrought Cr. p. 412. St. Wilfrid entring into a Village called Tiddafrey there met him a great multitude of Women offering their Children to be confirmed by him Amongst them one Woman mingled her self craftily carrying in her Arms her dead Child pretending that he should be Catechised but inwardly perswaded that by the Bishops sanctity he should be restored to Life the Bishop therefore uncovering the Childs face to the end he might perform the due Rites found that he was dead then the Woman perceiving that her fraud did not succeed betook her self to prayers earnestly beseeching him for God and his Holy Mothers sake if he had any Faith or Pity torestore Life to her Child saying this she cast her self at his Feet and would not be removed thus offering an importunate violence toward him All this while the Bishop continued doubtful whether he should seem rash in attempting the Miracle or reject the Tears and Prayers of the disconsolate Woman but a charitable Pity at last got the victory therefore after he had with a low voice repeated certain devout passages out of the Psalms he laid his Right Hand upon the dead Body whereupon immediately the Soul was restored for by gasping moving his Eye-lids and stirring his whole Body he gave proof that he was alive The Child was called Ethelwald who was afterward a Monk at Rippon Another Miracle wrought by St. Wilfrid on a Monk who falling from the top of the Church whilst it was a building at the cost of King Egbert broke all his Bones and tore asunder all his Members was restored to Health by the Prayers of the Bishop and his Covent Cr. p. 422. St. Ositha's Head being cut off by a Danish Pirate at the very place a clear Fountain broke forth which cured several kind of Diseases moreover assoon as her Head was off the Body presently rose up and taking up the Head in the Hands by the conduct of Angels walked firmly the straight way to the Church of St. Peter and Paul about a quarter of a Mile distant from the place of her suffering and when it was come there it knocked at the door with the bloody Hands as desiring it might be opened and thereon left marks of blood having done this it fell there down to the ground Cr. p. 424. The Miracle of St. Wereburga's driving away Wild-geese At Chester there was near the Walls of the Town a Farm belonging to the Monastery the Corn whereof was much wasted by flocks of Wild-geese which the Steward of the place endeavoured but in vain to chase away of which incommodity he made complaint to St. Wereburga whereupon she commanded him saying Go your ways and shut them all up in a house He wondring at so strange a command thought the Saint spoke those words in jest but when she renew'd the same injunction constantly and in a serious manner he returned among the Corn where seeing great numbers of such fowl devouring the grain he with a loud voice commanded them in his Mistresses name to follow him hereupon immedately they all in one drove followed him and were shut up together in a House Now it hapned that a certain servant privately stole one of the said birds which he kill'd and hid with intention to eat it The next morning early the Holy Virgin went to the house where after she had in a chiding manner reprehended the birds for usurping that which belonged not to them she commanded them to flye away and not return Immediately the whole army of them took wing but being sensible of the injury done them they flew not away but hovering over the Holy Virgins head with wonderful noyse made complaint of their loss She hearing their importunate clamours understood by inspiration the cause thereof and after search made the Offender confessed his theft whereupon she commanded the bird to be restored to her companions after which they all with one consent flew away so as not any bird of that kind was afterward seen in that Territory Cr. p. 427. 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things to come or comforting such as served him with divine Consolations and in his Journey to Heaven at the very instant of his decease at Rome as afterwards appeared by computation of Hours he appeared in Glory to that Noble and Religious Lady Margareta de Lilus commending the Society to her as a principal Benefactress of the College of Bolonia Many Devils have been cast out of possessed Persons and out of Houses which they haunted by the Relicts of the Holy Father or by hanging up his Picture The Oyl of the Lamp which burns before his Body hath wrought many strange Cures He hath eased many Women who have called upon him in the extremity of their Child-bearing Labours and bestowed Children upon barren Women At Carpentras a certain Woman being delivered of a Child without motion and of the Complexion of a Blackmoor so that it was doubtful what course was to be taken in thâ— prodigious accident whether thâ— Child ought to be Christned or noâ— or whether it were to be deferred tiâ—â— some motion were discovered in it at last by the perswasion of a certain Canon they implored the aiâ— of St. Ignatius by which the Child was suddenly not recovered only but so recovered that his Countenance became chearful and fair He cured divers of the Pleurisie He protected many Men from the fury of their Enemies others being fallen head-long from some dangerous precipice were defended from all hurt by invoking his Name At Cesenza one Angelo Lopez upon the Eve of St. Ignatius in expression of his affection had filled his Windows with many Paper-Lanthorns adding to each Lanthorn the Picture of the Saint and with infinite demonstrations of gratulation repeated often these words Io Loyola B. Pater io but in the midst of this triumph by chance it came to pass that by the greatness of the Wind the Fire had taken hold of his Lanthorns which when it was observed by some Raskallity of the Vulgar they began to scoff at his devotion upbraiding the Man for his superstition and with a bitter allusion to his Motto of Triumph invert the words of it thus At at Beatus uritur at Loyola crematur At which the Man growing insinitely out of patience out of his sense of this irreligion used to St. Ignatius And I for my part quoth he â—ave so high an esteem of the Sanctity of the B. Father that I believe him to be able to protect his singed Picture from the Fire Neither was he deceived in his belief for the Flame having consumed the Paper round about it forbore to touch the Picture either in demonstration of the Sanctity of the B. Father or in observancy of the Zeal of him who desired it At Braga a certain Woman having been lately brought to Bed was so much weakned for many days after with a continual Flux of Blood that life could hardly be kept in her from following the Course of the Flux who drinking of the Water into which her Child had been dipped having been wrapped immediately before in the Garments of Saint Ignatius her Flux suddenly stopped and she recovered her accustomed strength In the Town of Guimarent a certain Woman having lost the use of her Sight and Hearing and received the holy Oyl and other Rites of the Church lay utterly out of her senses and whilst some about her out of Devotion were endeavouring to put her in mind of her last words a certain Woman who in courtesie came to visit her called to remembrance that a little piece of the Girdle St. Ignatius used in his life time having lately been sent to her by a Son of hers of the Society which she with great Confidence and Reverence towards God presently applied to the sick Woman which done she began to recover her senses by degrees to Breath to stretch out her Hands and make signs for Meat to the Admiration of the Physicians for the suddenness of the Cure All which things were afterwards confirmed by the Attestation of sworn Witnesses At Caglari a certain elder Brother snatching up a Knife at dinner time hurt his younger Brother in the Eye and at the same time the Daughter of a certain Gentlewoman carving at the Table was sorely hurt in like manner in one of her Eyes both which calling upon the Aid of Saint Ignatius were delivered from danger beyond expectation Another Woman had been so weakned for the space of four Months with continual Pains that she was utterly deprived of the Use of her Feet but the Feast of St. Ignatius drawing near she desirous to partake of the common Jollity that day expressed in our Church was not frustrated of her desire for her Pain ceasing and her Feet being restored to their wonted Strength she came thither with Joy to have a share in the Devotion In the same place upon the Eve of St. Ignatius the Artillery playing round a little Infant who could not speak and who had never heard the Name of St. Ignatius cryed out to the Admiration of all standers by To morrow is the Day of B. Ignatius But they who were present hearing a thing so full of Wonder for Experiment sake demanded again of the Child What was to be done to morrow who Answered as before At Majorca dwelt a certain Woman who through the Contraction of her Sinews was become so Lame that she could not go without Crutches the whole Town therefore being filled with the noises of Trumpets Voyces and other Musical Instruments Almighty God inspired her with a desire of Visiting our Church who put her self in readiness to go notwithstanding the disswasions of her Sister who feared she might Miscarry by the press of People she nevertheless gave no Ear to her Disswasions but put her self upon the way and was suddenly Cured and recovered strength in her Feet and throwing away her Crutches without any help betook her self to the Church where in Thanks-giving she caused a Mass of the B. Sacrament to be said Another Woman who some Years past had received her Sight by the means of this B. Father lying now again desperately Sick and being given over by four Physicians not forgetful by whom she had received Light before now again reposed all her Hopes and Confidence in the same Physician One Night therefore she called out upon one of the Women who were accustomed to Watch with her Make haste quoth she come hither with speed and behold this Glorious Splendor O if thou hadst come sooner thou shouldst have beheld my St. Ignatius visiting me for I am now Recovered and perfectly Well And the Event confirmed it to be true for the Physicians themselves could not deny but that she was Cured by some Secret Power At Monte in Gallicia a great Fire raging for many Days together and consuming a certain Wood gathered still new forces dispersing and spreading it self far and near there being no Human means to stop or restrain it to which the Wind rising upon a sudden drove the Flames towards
At the Church of St. Almedhâ— one especial thing usually happening on the Solemnity of this Virgin seems to me very remarkable for you may oftentimes see there young Men and Maids sometimes in the Church sometimes in the Church-yard and sometimes whilst they are Dancing in an even ground encompassing it to fall down on a sudden to the ground at first they lye quiet as if they were rapt in an Extasie but presently after they will leap up as if possessed with a Frenzy and both with their Hands and Feet before the People they will represent whatsoever servile Works they unlawfully performed upon Feast-days of the Church one will walk as if he were holding the Plough another as if he were driving the Oxen with a Goad and both of them at the same time singing some rude Tune as if to ease their toyl one will act the Trade of a Shoomaker another of a Tanner a third of one that were Spinning Here you may see a Maid busily weaving and expressing all the postures usually in that work After all which being brought with Offerings unto the Altar you would be astonished to see how they would return to their Senses again Cr. p. 217. The manner of St. Kentigern's Birth A certain King of Britanny who was a Pagan begot of his Wife a very beautiful Danghter she having been a frequent hearer of Sermons became a Christian and though she had not been Baptized yet she was addicted to the duties of Ecclesiastical Discipline as much as the fear of incensing her Father would permit she bore so great Devotion to the fruitful Virginity of the blessed Virgin that mov'd with Womanish presumption she begg'd that she might imitate her in her Conception and Birth At length as she thought she obtained her desire for she found her self with Child Now it is not to be conceiv'd that this hapned without the embraces of a man notwithstanding who that man was or in what manner or when this was done she oft protested and with Oaths confirmed it that she was utterly ignorant Her Father perceiving this and not being able by fair speeches or threatnings to wrest from her who was the Father of the Child for she seriously protested that she had never suffered the unlawful embraces of any man hereupon in a rage he determined to execute upon her the Law established by his Ancestors by which it was enacted That whatsoever young Maid should be with Child by Fornication in her Fathers house should be thrown down headlong from the top of a high Mountain and the person corrupting her should lose his Head In conformity therefore to this Law the young Woman was placed on the highest point of a Mountain in that Countrey called Dunpelder from thence to be thrown down and torn in pieces She therefore with deep sighs looking up to Heaven implored Mercy After this she was cast down but by the Fall was neither bruised nor received the least harm but sliding down easily and slowly came safe to the bottom The Pagans ascribed this to the Magical Enchantments of Christians therefore they carried her several Miles into the Sea and there left her destitute of all humane help in a small Boat made of Leather without Oars but the Boat was carried to a far distant Haven with great swiftness being arrived there the young Lady went out of the Boat and presently after was brought to Bed of a Son without the assistance of a Midwife The next morning St. Servanus came to the place and seeing the Mother with her Infant he took them into his care and baptized them and called the Mother Thanen and the Child Kentigern Cr. p. 231. St. Iustinian having reproved his Servants for idleness and mispending their time they were inflam'd with fury against him insomuch as rushing upon him they threw him to the ground and most cruelly cut off his Head But in the place where his sacred Head fell to the ground a Fountain of pure water presently flowed by drinking of which in following times many were miraculously restored to Health But Miracles greater than these immediately succeeded his Death for the Body of the Martyr presently rose and taking the Head between the two Arms went down to the Sea Shore and walking thence on the Sea past over to the Port called by his Name and being arrived to the place where a Church is now built to his memory it fell down and was there buried by St. David Cr. p. 234. St. David being enjoined to Preach he commanded a Child which attended him and had lately been restored to Life by him to spread a Napkin under his Feet and standing upon it he began to expound the Gospel and the Law to the Auditory All the while this Oration continued a snow white Dove descending from Heaven sate upon his Shoulders and moreover the Earth on which he stood rais'd it self under him till it became a Hill from whence his Voice like a Trumpet was clearly heard and understood by all both near and far off On the top of which Hill a Church was afterwards built which remains to this day Cr. p. 235. St. David when Priest went to Paulens who in a certain Island lived a holy Life with him St. David lived many years now it fell out that his Master Paulens fell blind hereupon calling his Disciples together he desired that one after another they would look upon his Eyes and say a Prayer or Benediction on them When they had done this and that he received no ease or remedy David said thus to him Father I pray you do not command me to look you in the Face for ten years are passed since I studied with you and in all that time I never had the boldness to look you in the Face Paulens admiring his humility said Since it is so it will suffice if by touching my Eyes thou pronounce a Benediction on them Presently therefore assoon as he touched them Sight was restored to them Cr. p. 238. St. Iohn a British Priest avoided the Sight of Men confining himself to a little Cell where in a little Orchard cultivated by himself he had planted a few Lawrel Trees which are now so increased that they afford a very pleasing shade his custome was under these to sit read or write as he thought fit After his death among the said Trees there was one which through age was withered then he to whom the care of the Place was committed digg'd up the Roots of the said dry Tree and of the Body of it hewed out a Seat or Bench upon which he used to sit After he had used the Seat for the space of above two years a thought of remorse coming into his heart he said Alas Sinner that I am why do I for my own conveniency make use of a Seat framed of the Tree which so holy a Priest planted with his own hands Having said this he presently took a Spade and digging a deep hole in the ground he put
the passage it mounted up to the Monastery where it abundantly served all their uses One particular more increased the admiration of the event for this Rivulet in the way being to pass through a Pool flowed notwithstanding pure and free from all mixture Cr. p. 357. St. Cuthbert when a Child saw St. Aidan's Soul carried into Heaven And likewise on a certain day as he was journeying alone about the third hour he turned aside into the House of a certain Matron being desirous to repose there a while and to get food not for himself but his Horse The Woman received him kindly and earnestly desired that she might make something ready for his refection but he refused telling her that he could not eat because it was a day of Fast for it was indeed Friday she notwithstanding persisted in her desire and told him that all the rest of his Journey he would find no Habitation therefore I desire you would eat lest you should faint if you fast all day notwithstanding out of love to fasting he would not be overcome by the Womans importunity but fasting as he was he continued his Journey till evening when St. Cuthbert saw he could not finish his Journey that day neither was there any Lodging near as he was riding he saw certain Cottages which in the Summer time the Heardsmen had built for their present use but then the Winter approaching they were left empty thither he went with an intention to stay all night and tying his Horse to the Wall he gathered up a bundle of Hay which the wind had blown from the House-covering and gave it him to eat and himself passed his time in Prayer But on a sudden he saw the Horse lift up his head and with his teeth biting somewhat that was on the House-roof and presently after he drew down a linnen Cloth wrapped up being desirous therefore to know what that was he took up the linnen and found wrapped up in it half a Loaf of Bread warm from the Oven and so much Flesh as would suffice himself for one refection he blessed God who vouchsafed to provide a Supper for him and his companion half of the bread therefore he gave to his Horse and the other half he eat himself Cr. p. 366. A Secular Priest foolishly adventured to make a tryal whether Saint Ethelreda's Body yet remained uncorrupted fastning therefore a Candle to the end of a Rod he passed it through a hole which the Danes had made in the Sepulcher and looking in as curiously as he could searched round about the Tomb. And not content with this with the end of a forked stick he endeavoured to draw to him the Cloaths in which her Body was enwrapped and some part of the Body he discovered when the H. Virgin having indignation that a vile person should presume to look upon her naked Body with great violence drew back the Cloaths insomuch as he striving against her fell backwards and was forcibly dashed against the Pavement by which fall he became Lame all his life and afterwards was struck with Madness Cr. p. 383. A doubt entring into the minds of some touching the Incorruption of St. Withburga sister to St. Ethelreda 55 years after her death when the bodies of these two Virgins were Translated that doubt was put to the tryal As touching St. Ethelred considering the antient proofs of her incorruption none durst presume to touch her body but they discovered the body of St. Withburga as far as her Breasts and she was seen perfectly entire more like to one asleep than dead with a silk Cushion under her Head her Veil and Vestments shining as if they had been new her Countenance chearful with a Rosie blush her Teeth white her Lips a little opened and her Breasts exceeding small One of the Monks adventuring to touch her body a lively blush coloured her Cheeks as if she still had breath in her Cr. p. 385. It hapned on a certain Sunday when St. Winefrids Parents were gone to Church some necessary occasions detained her at home at which time a certain Young man named Caradoc the Son of Alan Prince of the Countrey entred the House where he found the Virgin alone sitting by the Fire she knowing the Prince hastily rose up and desired to know his pleasure His answer was You are not ignorant who I am and how I abound in riches and honour all these riches and honours you shall partake if you will yield to my will The Virgin perceiving his intent held down her Head and blushed extremely At first she seemed as if she were much troubled that he should find her unadorned and she told him Sir you being a Prince there is no doubt but you are able to heap upon me all wordly happiness in abundance if I were your Wife however be pleased to expect here a while till my Fathers return in the mean time I have some business in my Chamber and will return presently This she said to gain a little time for she saw the Young man burning with Lust with much ado he permitted her to go to her Chamber having hopes she would return as soon as she was dressed she therefore entred hastily her Chamber and as hastily went out at the other door and ran towards the Church As soon as the Young man perceived this he drew his Sword run after her and soon overtaking her with a stern countenance strook off her Head and immediately in the place where it fell to the Earth a most pure and plentiful Spring gushed forth which flows to this day and by the Holy Virgins merits gives Health to a World of Diseased persons It being in the steep descent of a Hill where the Virgins Head was cut off it lightly running down to the bottom slid into the Church whereas the Body remained in the place where it first fell The Congregation were wonderfully astonished to see the Head tumbling among their Feet they all went out and found the Murtherer near the liveless body wiping his Sword on the grass S. Bueno therefore seeing his pride and having in his hand the Virgins Head looked on him and said Impious Villain hast thou no shame of the stain wherewith thou hast defiled thy high Birth and shewest thou no repentance of this horrible crime thou hast disturbed the peace thou hast polluted the Church thou hast provoked God since therefore it is so I beseech him without delay to inflict on thee a just punishment for this thy detestable crime As soon as he had ended these words the Young man fell to the ground gave up the Ghost and which was more wonderful his Body presently disappeared and many say it was swallowed up by the Earth and with the wicked Soul sunk into Hell But Bueno kissing the Head which he had in his hand joyned it to the body covering it with his Mantle celebrated Mass at the Altar Preached and prayed that the Virgins Soul might return to her Body this Prayer