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A85652	The Holy life of Philip Nerius founder of the Congregation of the Oratory. To which is annexed a relation written by S. Augustine of the miracles in his dayes, wrought many of them in or near the city wherein he resided and well-known to him. And a relation of sundry miracles wrought at the monastery of Port-Royall in Paris, A.D. 1656. publikcly [sic] attested by many witnesses. / Translated out of a French copie published at Paris. 1656.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Gallonio, Antonio, d. 1605, attributed name.; Bacci, Pietro Giacomo.	1659 (1659)	Wing G181; Thomason E1727_1; ESTC R202153	262,742	449

wrought in some places not wrought in others For the holiness of the place is very well known to many where the Body of the Blessed Felix of Nola was buried wither I willed them to go for that whatever was miraculously mad● manifest upon either of them there might from thence be more readily and * Nola in Italy being over against Hippo in Affrick more faithfully transmitted in writing to us For at Millain I my self knew at the Memoriall of the Saints where the very devils make strange and terrible confessions a certain Thief who came thither purposely to deceive one by for swearing himself that was compelled to acknowledge the theft and restore what he had taken away And is not Affrica full of the bodies of Holy Martyrs a And yet we know such things done no where hereabouts For as the Apostle saith Non omnes c. 1. Cor. 12. All Saints have not gifts of healing nor have all the discerning of Spirits so neither would he who divides his own to every one as he will have these things done at all Memorials of the Saints Wherefore being unwilling that this very great grief of my heart should come to your knowledge lest I should trouble you by grieving you to much and to little purpose God would perhaps therefore not conceal it from you that you together with us might give your selves to prayer that so what himself knows in this matter but we cannot know he of his goodness may be pleased to manifest unto us c. a Here Bishop Andrews as I said Resp ad Apol. Bellarm c. 12. would make the matter of this Epistle someway to oppose evacuate the eighth chapter of the 22th Book de Civ Dei because the Father here saith nusquam hîc in Affrica talia fieri scire se that he knew no such miracles done in Affrica But the Father without making him to contradict himself may first either be understood by talia not to exclude all miracles in generall and absolutely but only those of such a kind that is a miraculous deciding of matters of controversy forcing the delinquent to confess his fault as these expressions of his seem to imply Ubi terribiliora opera Dei non sanam cujusque conscientiam facilius aperirent i. e. ' where the more terrible works of God ' discovered every one 's unsound conscience And novimus furem quendam c. his story of a thief forced to confess his theft before such a Monument And that which follows after talia Non omnes Sancti c. All Saints have not gifts of healings nor all the discerning of Spirits so neither would he have these things done at all Memorialls who divides to every one according as he will These things that is both these things both healing and discerning of Spirits Or Secondly if he speak here of all Miracles and mean these things in generall yet may that which he saith in Civ Dei 8. cap. be true nevertheless those frequent Miracles he knew to be done at the Martyrs Memorialls in Affrick probably happening after the writing of this Epistle For in that eighth chapter of the 22th Book De Civ Dei which books were finished not long before his death he saith Nondum est autem biennium c. ' It is not yet two years since this Memoriall was set up at Hippo-Regius and of another Memoriall he saith Quam Possidius illo advexit Which Possidius Bishop of Calama and one of S. Austins Colleagues as he calls himself in the story which he writ of his Life brought thither therefore that of no long standing But to put all out of doubt see what the Father saith concerning this matter in his Book De vera Relig. cap. 25. Sed accepimus majores nostros c. But we have heard that our Forefathers followed visible Miracles for they could not do otherwise in that degree of Faith whereby men ascend as high as from things temporall to eternall by whom it is come to pass that these now are not necessary to their posterity For seeing the Catholick Church is founded and diffused through all the World those Miracles were not suffered to last to our times lest the minde should always look after things visible and mankind by the frequency of them should chill by the Novelty whereof it was at first enflamed Nor yet are we to doubt but that they are to be believed who preaching things whereunto few arrived could notwithstanding perswade the people to follow them c. Vpon which words that he might not be misunderstood in them the Father thus comments in his Retractations S. Aug. Retract lib. 1 cap. 13. Item quod dixi c. Again whereas I said that those Miracles were not permitted to last to our times it is true indeed for they that are now adayes baptized do not so receive the Holy Ghost when hands are laid on them as to speake in the Languages of all Nations nor are the impotent at this day cured at the shadow of the preachers of Christ passing by them and whatever such like things were then done which it is apparent afterward ceased But what I said is not so to be understood as that men should believe there were now no miracles wrought in the name of Christ. For at the same time when I wrote that very Book I my self knew a blind man in the same City that recovered his sight at the Bodies of the * Millain-Martyrs and some others of which sort so many are even in these times done that we can neither know them all nor yet reckon up those we know See what the Father saith to the same purpose Retract 1. lib. 14. cap. Alio loco cùm miracula commemorassem c. In another place viz of his Book De utilitate Credendi 16. cap. When I had recited the Miracles which the Lord Jesus did when he was here in the flesh I added You will say why are not these things done now and I answered there because they would not move us unless they were wonders and wonders they would not be if they were usuall But this I said because not so great nor all such miracles are done now a dayes not because none are done also now a dayes * Gervasius and Protasius see S. Aug Confess 9. lib. 7. cap. S. Aug. De Cura pro Mortuis Cap. 16. HEnce also is that Question solved After what manner the Martyrs by the favours granted to such as pray declare that they intermeddle in humane affairs if the dead know not what the living do For we have heard it not by uncertain rumours but undoubted witnesses that when Nola was besieged by the Barbarians the Blessed Confessor Felix not only by certain instances of particular favours but even in the plain view of men appeared to divers citizens and inhabitants whom he especially loved But these things were divine manifestations differing far from the usuall course assigned to the severall

the bearing that Venerable burden cured of a Fistula that had long troubled him expecting the help of a Surgeon his friend to come and lance it Eucharius a Priest of Spain dwelling at Calama being ill of the Stone his old disease was by a Relique of the forenamed Martyr brought thither by Bishop Possidius perfectly cured And afterwards falling into another sickness and being laid out for dead so that they had already tied his Thumbs together was restored to life by means of the forementioned Martyr from whose Monument a Preists Coat being brought was cast over him as he lay There was one Martialis a man of note and pretty ancient much averse from Christianity who yet had a Daughter a Christian and a Son in Law Baptiz●d that year He sickening they besought him often and earnestly both with Prayers and Tears to become a Christian he absolutely denyed thrusting them from him in a furious passion His Son in Law resolves to go to S. Stevens Monument there to offer up his most ardent Prayers for him that God would change his heart without any more ado to believe in Christ This he did with abundance of Tears and Vollies of sighes and a burning zeal of sincere devotion when at his going thence taking some of the Flowers that came next to hand off the Altar at night he laid them under his Fathers head To sleep they went and lo before day breake he cries out to run straight for the Bishop who as it chanced was then with me at Hippo and when he understood that he was abroad he desired the Priests to come to him They came he presently acquaints them that he now believed and to the wonder and joy of all was forthwith Baptized As long as he lived he had this still in his mouth O Christ receive my Spirit not knowing that these were the last words of the B. Steven when he was stoned by the Jews which also were his last words who not long after died Two likewise that had the Gout were healed here one a Citizen the other a stranger the Citizen outright but the Stranger by Revelation what he should use when he was ill who doing accordingly was soon rid of his pain Audurus is the name of a Mannour where is a Church in which is a Relique of the Martyr Steven Where certain Oxen drawing a Cart leaving the paths went over a little Boy that was playing in the Lane and bruised him with the wheel who thereupon fetched a groan and lay gasping his last The Mother snatching him up lays him at the same Monument and he not only revived but recovered of all kind of hurt A certain Votress at a Neighbouring Town called Caspiliana being extream ill past all hope her Coat was brought to the same Tombe but before it came back again she dyed Yet her Parents wrapping her Corps up in it her Spirit returned and she recovered At Hippo one Bassus a Syrian prayed at the same Martyrs Monument for a sick Daughter of his that was like to dy having taken her Garment to the place with him when on the sudden there came Servants from home to tell him she was dead But while he was at his Prayers his friends meeting with them forbad them to acquaint him therewith that he might not go mourning along the Streets So returning home to his house which rang with the lamentations of his Servants he threw her Garment which he had carried with him upon her and she came to life again In the same Hippo likewise the Son of one Irenaeus a Banker fell sick and died And as the Coorse was laid out and provision made for the funerall one of his friends while some were wailing and lamenting others administring words of comfort hinted unto them that they should anoint the Corps with the Oile of the B. Martyr Which was no sooner done but he was restored to life In like manner Eleusinus one that had been Tribune laid his Son a little Infant newly dead upon the Martyrs Memoriall that is in his Mannour in our Suburbs and after his Prayers powred forth with abundance of Tears in the place took him up alive What shall I do My promise of compleating this work hastens me so that I cannot name all those I know and questionless most of my familiars when they read these will take it ill that I have omitted so many which they certainly know as well as I. Whose pardon at present I must crave and that they would consider how laborious an enterprize it is to perform that which the dispatch of this Employment undertaken permits me not here to do For should I only write down the Miraculous Cures to let pass other things which have been done within the Confines of Calama and Hippo by this Martyr I mean the Most Glorious Steven I might compile many Volumes yet not comprize them all but only those whereof Testimonials are brought in that so they may be divulged to the people For so we have ordered being desirous that we having seen even in these our days instances of a Divine Supernaturall power frequently shewen like those of old they should not be buried in oblivion or kept from publick view It is scarce two years since the Monument at Hippo-Regius was erected when as the Books delivered in to us concerning these prodigious effects yet many other as we are most certain not being given in even to the time when I am writing this amount to some seventy But at Calama where the Memoriall was set up sooner and the Books brought faster they are incredibly more in number At Vzala too a Colony adjoining to Vtica we have been witnesses of sundry things of note done by the same See in serm de diversis 32. 33. the relation of another ●● miracle which the Father knew done in this place Martyr whose Monument was built by Bishop Evodius long before ours But there is or rather there was no custom as then to publish Testimonials though haply of late some such Usage have got footing For when we were there awhile since we desired Petronia a Noble Lady that had been miraculously recovered of a long and dangerous sickness when all aid of the Physicians failed her the Bishop of the place likewise wishing the same to give in a Declaration to be read in the Congregation who most willingly assented and did so In which one thing was inserted which I cannot here conceale though hurried away to other matters importing this present design She relates how a certain Jew advised her to sow into a girdle of hair a Ring that had a stone set in it found in the reins of an Oxe and to gird her self with it under her clothes next her skin furnished with this remedy she addressed her self to the Shrine of the Holy Martyr And in her Travaills from Carthage after having stayed at a Mannour she had in those parts seated upon the River Bagrada as she rose up to go on her

this Vertue For himself his whole study and endeavour was to be disesteemed and vilified of all for which cause he used to do and many times put others upon the doing of such things as carried with them a semblance of a fickle or rather frantique mind In the first place therefore he was most vigilant in depressing all haughtiness and exaltation of mind as far as he might and could both publickly and privately at home and abroad To descend methodically to some particulars He would sometimes dance with much eagerness and that not in corners but open Courts in Porches High-wayes Streets Market-places and where the thickest crowds of people were gathered together in the presence of Princes Prelats and Cardinalls Insomuch that he was seen dancing publikely before all on the first of August in the street of S. Peter ad Vincula where the whole City was solemnly convened and when one of the spectators cried out away old fool he rejoyced extreamly dancing and leaping so much the more for very gladness One time going about his occasions he hapned on a man that sold water in the City whose beast being laden with vessels as the manner is he desired him Prythee friend let me drink a draught of water out of your Tub. He consented So Philip setting his mouth to the Barrel drank what he pleased all the standers by gazing on him and wondring at him Meeting by chance the B. Felix of Cantalicium a Capuchin in the Street called the Bank then full of people saluting each other he asked him if he were athirst who answered Indeed I am Felix replied Now will I try whether you have truly learnt the habit of Mortification and straight reached him the bottle that hung at his back bidding him Take it and drink Philip took it and drank the multitude looking on and saying Look yee one Saint drinks to the other But now said Philip I will see whether you have this vertue too or not when pulling his Cap off he put it on his head and bad him Go. See I do replied the other but if any body take away your Cap look you to that the loss shall be yours So Felix going away with the cap Philip soon dispatched one after him to fetch it back Which done each went his way the beholders being in suspense whether of them had shewen greater self-denyall Cardinall Alphonsus Jesualdus presented him with a coat of Sables conditioning that he should wear it Philip promised him and wore it a full moneth within doors and without stalking with a stately gate as being brave and gallant on purpose to be derided looking first on this side then on that as one proud of his attire till taken for a frantique he was laughed at by all The Cardinall of Alexandria Nephew to Pius V. of B. Memory had invited Philip to dinner who boiling a few Lentills first put them in a pot and gave one of his to carry to the Feast with him for trial of their mortification as they were all set he commands the pot to be placed in the midst of all their dainties himself tasts it first then invites the rest and distributes it that neither the Cardinall nor the Company knowing the holiness of the man could refuse his proffer but all fed very heartily on it The day that the Bodies of the H. Martyrs Papias and Maurus were translated to the Church of Vallicella both Streets and Church thronged with the concourse of people Philip attending the coming of the sacred Reliques nigh the gate falls to complementing with a Switzer a Souldier belonging to the Popes Guard pulling him by his large broad beard they that saw it partly wondring partly laughing thereat Another time to expose himself the more to scorn he made half his beard be shaven of and going immediately into the Sreet began to dance and caper as his guise was very pleasantly that so like another David becoming more Vile thereby he might erect the Trophees of victory gotten over himself And not unlike to this was it which he did once or twice in a great company of people causing one of his to cut his hair and beard by this one invention for the subduing of his spirit both He and that his Barber learning the contempt of themselves The Humble man likewise went often thorow the City with a huge traine of Disciples accompanying him carrying a large posy of flowers in his hand and sometimes without his Cloak by this means attracting the eyes of all unto him that he might be scorned as an Idiot or Natur●ll yea oftimes in reading he for the nonce used barbarisms and incongruities especially when able or skilful persons were by that they might take him for one not only void of judgment or profound learning but unable so much as even to read right At home he was ever contriving wayes still to make himself contemptible of which among severall others that occurr the Reader may take these few examples In the first place you should ordinarily have seen him when he was private in his Chamber with a Crimson shirt on reaching to his knee huge big shoes and those white too upon his feet a straight Cap on his head in which Dress he would entertain Noble Personages and men of quality to make himself hereby ridiculous unto them Yea he would sometimes go to Church in this habit and that upon Festivall dayes It once hapned that he came abroad thus attired on the Anniversary of the B. Virgins Nativity to whose honour the Church was dedicated as Vespers were a singing where were present many Cardinalls which all rising up at his entrance in reverence to one of so rare holiness honourably welcomed the Good old man intreating him he would be pleased to sit down with them who smilingly answered It was enough for him to find room below at their foot-stools among such as bore up their Trains For the same reason he had by him Romances and books fraught with fables that he might be taxed for his levity and vanity and when either Noble Sage or Learned Persons resorted to him he would make one of his read them shewing both by looks and gesture that he was exceedingly pleased therewith Once Clement VIII sent some of the most eminent of the Kingdome of Poland to him that they might behold an example of Vertue for their imitation and by his conversation and conference in things spirituall might also conceive a due estimation of his great sanctity He having notice of it aforehand that they were a coming calls one of his Sons to read him one of those books and not leave till he bad him Anon they came when without ceremony or respect he tells them I would have you hearken till this Tale be ended to which they willingly yielding Mark ye saith he whether I be not choyce to have books of a grave subject read to me without mentioning one word of spirituall maters So having tarried a while looking one upon another

But haply it may seem not less strange for one by vertue of his command to bereave a living man of life than to restore one dead to life again both which Philip did even as in the Acts of the Apostles we read the Prince of the Apostles did to Ananias and Sapphira A Noble Roman Matron fell sick and having continued so a moneth together and more to the great perill of he● life Philip coming to see her labours as well by his perswasions with her as his prayers for her to chear her up being exceedingly troubled both in Body and Mind At length He with his departed to return to Vallicella he had gone but a little from the place when stopping he bethinks himself saying I am forced to go back to the sick woman So returning and coming to her Bed-side he dismissed the Matrons that were about her Anon some of his standing by he layd his hand on her head saying I command thee O Soul in the Name of God that thou presently leave this Body He had scarce said it but straight the woman surrendred her Spirit the Women being afterward called in Philip told them Vnless this Woman had died as she did she would certainly have consented to the temptations of Satan therefore it was but necessary to hasten her End CHAP. XIII The opinion Men had of his sanctity PHilip thus enriched with these so many and signall Favours by Almighty God procured himself such admiration and esteem amongst men that almost all who knew him judged him a Saint not only those of inferiour rank but even Nobles Princes and Popes themselves For first Paul the IV. made such account of him that he not only commended himself frequently to his Prayers but professed that he was sorry his Pontificall dignity detained him from being present at the Exercises of the Oratory Pius IV. honoured him so that in his last sickness as he lay a dying he would have him by him to commend his soul to God as one who knew his singular Merits besides that he always testified very frankly his respect to him in severall particulars Pius V. of B. and Glorious Memory being well assured of the benefit and advantage accruing to the Faithfull from the Foundation of the Oratory was as he said exceeding glad that in his days there should be men in the City that should appeare so forward to promote Religion and Holiness in Devout minds As on the other side Philip to quit the Good Pope had so firm and setled an opinion of his Sanctity that he kept his Pontificall Slipper among other of his Saints Reliques which the H. man applying once to a Sick Person he began to mend and perfectly recovered Gregory XIII much used his advice in difficult matters and for his Piety so esteemed him that he would never suffer him to Stand in his presence but made him both cover his head and sit very familiarly with him Sixtus V. highly prized him as appeared by his constant liberality toward him For he freely bestowed on him the Bodies of the H. Martyrs Papias and Maurus annexed a Rich Benefice among the Samnites to the Congregation granted them many Priviled Ses and Immunities with other Acts of Graces Gregory XIIII not only advised with him in matters of importance making him sit covered before him but so respected him that upon his Entrance to the Popedome the H. man coming to kiss his feet as the manner is he by no means would suffer it but meeting and very lovingly embracing him burst forth into these expressions Although Father I be greater in Dignity yet in Sanctity you are far the more Eminent Clement VIII in almost all his affairs of moment recommended himself to his Prayers and when he was pained with the Go●t in his hands he used to say Sure Father Philip doth not pray to God for us intima●ing that if he did but pray for him he should not suffer those tormenting pains Besides as oft as the Father vi●i●e● h●m he like his Name in his affable and mi●d d●portment courteously embraced him and as his predecessors had done made him sit covered in his Presence To say nothing of his chu●ing him for his Confessor and when he grew aged substituting Baronius in his Room Again when he was Auditor of the Sacr●d Rota he said by way of Prediction Philip is questionless a Holy man and in due time shall be inserted in the Catalogue of Saints And in how great Veneration he was among the Cardinals of the H. Church of Rome is apparent both by what they have writen of him and by their publike Testimonies Aug. Valerius Cardinall of Verona made a Book and intituled it Philippus sive de Laetitiâ Chritiana Philip yet living Cardinall Gabriel Paleottus the first Archbishop of Bononia whose Confessor Philip was proclaimed him then al●ve to the World as the Exemplar of a Vertuous and Pious Old man in a Book which he writ De bono senectutis to this effect And truely it were easy to produce out of the Antient Records of Story especially of Ecclesiasticall Antiquity many old men renowned for Holiness and adorned with those Eminencies which in their proper places are mentioned Nevertheless since those things make deeper impression on the mind which occur to sight and ●re much in our hands the truth being hereby made more evident and invincible I thought good to offer to your View as an express and lively Precedent of an excellent Old age a Man yet living and conversant in the eyes of all who hath dwelt at Rome the Theatre of the Vniverse above fifty years in much reputation animating and promoting others strangely to a good and vertuous life I mean Father Philip Neri a Florentine who now fourscore years old like a tall and goodly Tree sheds the various fruits of his Vertues among the people He was the First Founder of the numerous Congregation of the Oratory in the City whence sundry others have very happily been propagated in severall places and religions unto this day Whom heretofore many Popes particularly Gregory XIII and XIIII of B. Memory and at this day Our H. Lord Clement the Eighth of times were wont to call to their assistance in matters of Religion and Spirituall conference To whom the Most Illustrious Cardinalls Bishops and Prelates daily resorted with others of all Ranks both for performance of Penances other weighty affairs as for his pious discourses communication with them Who despising all terrene felicity aspires after only celestiall honours and dignity although he hath born a great sway with Popes and the Prime Cardinalls and been in esteem with them Lastly one in whom the Images of Prudence Piety and Devotion joyned with a rare mildness Chearfullnes and Christian simplicity do so gloriously shine that whoever hath once beheld this Venerable old man and observed his long confirm'd Discipline and Life can have no grounds left to doubt ●● question the Benefit of Old age Thus Paleottus

as well as if he had never bin ill at all Whereupon as a Testimony of his Gratitude to the Servant of God he presently hung up the foresaid Table at his Monument The same Abbot also hung up the first Lamp before his Tombe which when the Priests to lesson the Pomp caused to be removed he complaining to the Pope had it placed there again which a Nob●e Lady hearing of straight gave another Silver one of a great Value The same year by Permission from Authority was his Statue erected at Rome with the Title of Blessed to it and a Glory round about it and speciously set out with figures of his Miracles on the Sides Besides divers others of Plaister which Noblemen and Ladies kept privately in their Chambers of which Clement the Eighth had one upon his Desk and another hanging on the Wall among the Images of the Saints As soon as ever he was dead his Chamber began to be in much honour among all and to have the Veneration of a Consecrated place being frequently resorted unto by Cardinals Prelates Nobles Plebeians and men of all orders But the Chappell where his Body was had so great Reverence done it by such as came thither they kissed the very Walls and plucking pieces of stones out of them carried them in devotion home with them yea some gathered up the Dust off the Pavement to keep There you might have seen some striving to get the Flowers that bedecked his Grave others daily visiting the Chappell some bare-footed all which affirmed they had received many Divine Blessings through his means The Year ensuing on the return of his Anniversary in the presence of many Bishops and Cardinalls the Mass for the day was in solemn manner and with their costliest habits on sung and after they had done singing the Vespers a Panegyrique was made in honour of him Many were the Elogies published in praise of Philip by men remarked for both knowledge and Piety First Cardinall Gabriell Paleottus in his Book De ●ona Senec●ut●s gives him these commendations These things O Religious and well-affected Reader were some while since not only written and digested into this Method by us but together with the whole work perfected so that nothing else was wanting but to Print them But see the Eternall counsell of the Grand disposer of All The B. Man who a little before had bin somwhat distempered yet not so as to keep his bed or intermit his ordinary employments was snatched from us in an instant and on the twenty sixth of May fetched from this his Banishment here below to his Celestiall Countrey Whose so sudden and unexpected End notwithstanding we have held our former purpose of proposing this Excellent Old man as the lively Mirrour wherein to behold the advantages of Age. Since although to our Eys he seemed to dye four moneths sithence yet as by his Religious and renowned actions we have cause to hope in the region of the Living he still lives He lives no less upon Earth in the Memory of Vertuous and Holy men He lives especially in the City of Rome where he left a numerous Issue of Spirituall Children of all degrees whom he begot in Christ He lives among the Sons of the Congregation severally dispersed abroad of whom some are sent into remote Lands by Christs Vicar and Supream Pastor on Earth to govern his Flock And a little after Which his so Noble Acts being to spread farther daily and as is to be hoped to come to the knowledge of all we have here pourtrayed him to the Life to revive such as loved him as their Father in Christ and that others stirred up by the Glory of his Name might be awakened to the imitation of his Vertues last of all that Posterity might have a perpetuall Monument in their view whence they may learn to know the happiness of Old age and to reverence it also as is due For of his Death and departure to the Lord the End of his Pilgrimage being agreeable to the whole course of his most holy Life foregoing and he as he had led so concluding his life not without undeniable arguments of his Sanctity let others to whose care that is committed make report Thus Paleottus Cardinall Frederic Borromeo in a Letter to Ant. Gallonius writes thus ' You best know how great respect I have always born to this Person and I cannot believe you ignorant of my love to him which since his decease is so far from being lessened that I would most willingly sacrifice my Bloud to his Memory if need required Cardinall Aug. Cusanus thus It hath pleased Almighty God to take unto Glory that Blessed Soul adorned with so many Christian Vertues after well-nigh fourscore years spent in the service of Christ concerning whom that saying of H. Scripture may be applied Qui ad justitiam erudiunt multos fulgebunt quasi stellae in perpetuas aeternitates And they that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the Stars for ever and ever And that Longitudine dierum replebo eum ostendam illi salutare meum With length of days will I satisfy him and shew him my Salvation So Cusanus whose devotion to Philip was such that not long after his death being to make his Will he next God himself and the B. Virgin the Princes of the Apostles and S. Augustine recommended his Soul to the B. Philip. Cardinall Octavius Bandinus thus In Philip alone me thinks the Summary of all Vertues was comprized and all those Excellencies met as concentred in him which we wonder at apart in other Saints Cardinall Caesar Baronius in his Notes on the Roman Martyrologe the twenty one of August speaking occasionally of the B. Philip Benitius a Florentine thus fals upon the praises of Philip Neri Nor is that Noble City of Florence famous only for one Saint Philip there being another of that Name the Founder and Father of Our Congregation of the Oratory in the City that B. Philip sirnamed Neri renowned for his Purity of living and incomparable Charity towards God and his Neighbour whose frequent Miracles sufficiently testify that he now enjoys the the Society of the Saints in heaven Cardinall Hierom Pamphilio Far and wide doth the fame of this B. Father daily spread by reason of the apparent Miracles which the Lord sheweth on such as fly for help to him Indeed the continuall favours he hath done me make me hope for his aid on all assayes therefore I resigne up my self to him to his Tuition I wholly commit my self and beseech him daily not to deny me at any time his Protection But of the Vertues and Accomplishments of Philip have divers written the chief of which are Rutilius Benzonius Bishop of Loretto in a Book which he put forth Of the H. Year of Jubile John Baptist Tuphus Bishop of Cerra in his Annals of Clearks Regnlar Silvanus Razzius in his Lives of the Saints in Tuscany Alphonso Vilegas in his Flos Sanctorum Archangelo Giano