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A13834	The history of our B. Lady of Loreto. Tra[n]slated out of Latyn, into English; Lauretanae historiae libri quinque. English	Torsellino, Orazio, 1545-1599.; Price, Thomas, 1570-1625.; Du Tielt, Guillaume, engraver.	1608 (1608)	STC 24141; ESTC S118494	227,693	614

the Prophetes Sybills Apostles and Euangelists curiously inserted amōg boughes flowers with such admirable needle-worke that I dare affirme scarce any thing in this kind euer to haue beene more curious more precious more admirable For it well appeareth by her owne hand-writing that the price amounted to eight thousand Crownes Notable veiles for holy Chalices and other such like were also presented with her other gifts The testimony and gift of a Spanish Priest honoured with a miracle CHAP. XXIII ABOVT that time Alfonsus Sancius a Spanish Priest both learned and godly hauing lately returned from the East and the Ilands of China called the Philippines came to visit the House of Loreto And before he departed thence I my self found him admiring the religion of the place and familiarly asking the cause of his wonder he answered me with admiration O good God! what manner of thing is this Truly I neuer felt the like vnto this nor neuer found God more present in all my life so doth a certaine heauenly sweetnes flow into my soule in this most sacred House He also recounted vnto me how he had beene at Vadalupe Monte-Seratto and other notable Houses of the B. Virgin in Spaine but neuer felt the grace of God so present for there seemeth to be the barke but heere indeed the marrow it self And obtayning of the Gouernour of Loreto by means of Cardinall Caietan in whose company he came to remayne all night in the holier part of the sacred Cell he passed the same in watching and prayer and afterward reported to his familiar friends that in all his life he neuer spent a more pleasant and more blessed night In regard whereof he desired to grace the most Maiesticall Cell of the B. Virgin with some gift of his and hauing brought with him euen from China it self a white damaske vestment with this he determined to beautify the Nicet of the B. Virgin Mother of God and the Image of Christ Crucified which came with the sacred house A taylour therfore was sent for who spreading abroad and measuring the damaske first denied that there was stuffe inough for both those purposes But Sancius vrging him to measure it againe with more diligent care he staied a while and when he had often turned it to and fro he began to affirme that at last he had found a meanes to effect that which he desired but so that those ornaments would be something shorter then was fitting Go to therefore said Sancius and follow this course if any thing be wanting our B. Lady her self will supplie it He obeyed and lest there might be any suspition of errour he had the old ornature of the Nicet at hand according to which he determined to make the forme of the new and so cutt it out Sancius himself looking on and tooke it with him to his shoppe But the next day assoone as it was light the tailour came vnto him crying out like one dismayed Without doubt our B. Lady hath wrought a miracle in her ornament For the new furniture of her Nicet which yesterday was too short is now longer by a handfull Sancius followed the man into his shoppe to belieue his owne eyes and not his wordes and found that he reported no vntruth neither could he deuise any thing to hinder it from a miracle For he saw that the veile of the Crucifix which he caused to be made was iust and nothing at all diminished and the damaske was made of a certaine strange worke that the deceit of adding such as ours is could not deceiue one skilfull in such things albeit in such things no feare is to be had of adding but rather of diminishing Sancius himself with many others stood by the taylour when he measured and cut out the vestment that it may be euident no errour was committed by improuidence wherfore by him and others it was holden for a Miracle but we will leaue the thing indifferent Bracelets which were offered to the B. Virgin do fasten themselues on the hands of Christ her little Child CHAP. XXIV BVT this is not so meruailous for the gift it self as for the euent therof Beatrice Gazea a Matron of great delicacie and riches was married to a most worthy Cittizen of Rome who for deuotion comming to Loreto in the moneth of May the 93. yeare of this age forthwith went into the inward part of the sacred Cell where the most religious Image of the B. Virgin of Loreto holding the sweet child IESVS in her lap is scene and reuerenced neere at hand which is adorned with a most precious garment and decked in magnificent sort Praying there with feruour to Christ and his B. Mother Gazea had a great desire to behold the countenance and ornature of the B. Virgin with more attention And blaming the imperfection of her sight requested the keeper who at that time was Papyrius N. to shew her the Image of the Mother of God more exquisitly with the light of a torch He willingly condescended vnto it For with a burning torch he shewed her the B. Virgin and at her intreaty told also who gaue all the donaries that were about her Among the rest there was a frōtlet of oriēt pearle of good bignes and beauty dedicated to the B. Virgin by a Matron of Rome who being giuen to many delightes and pleasures lately departed this life albeit of a cruell kind of death yet very Christianlike and godly Beatrice hearing this woman named and knowing her familiarly forthwith burst into admiration Behold the cause why she by the grace of the B. Virgin had so godly an end of her delicate life Then turning to the keeper And I said she would willingly dedicate these bracelets then the which I esteeme nothing more to Christ and his B. Mother if I thought that the gift of a wicked woman would not be vngratefull vnto them The keeper animated the woman seeming too fearfull saying that Christ was the Sauiour and Marie the Patronesse of the wicked Wheruppon in continent she pulled of her bracelets made of antique worke of iewells and gold and gaue them to the keeper to be offered to Iesus and his B. mother And presently the Keeper tooke a little forke prepared for such vses and put theron both the bracelets to direct them to the most sacred Statua intending to hang them on the erected singers of the right hand of the sweet child Christ Iesus for at that present there was no fitter a place But as he was drawing backe the sticke he obserued that one of the bracelets remained on the forke and that the other hauing passed the singers of the sweet child Iesus was fastened on his hand so fitly that fitter it could not be A meruailous thing Though the Keeper saw it yet he thought it might be donne by chance But afterward putting the sticke thither againe nothing moued out of his place To hang there also the other bracelet there happened another vndoubted miracle For by little and

in their wet garments as they were returning speedilie to Loreto to render due thankes to our B. Ladie they prostrated their bodies on the ground before her Sacred Image and with trickling teares gaue hartie thākes to God his B. Mother for their deliuerie Among the Guardians of Loreto there was one Bernardine Galiard a man of good credit and of long time host to the Capuchines with whome they lodged both before they wēt to Ancona and after they returned to Loreto Who intertayning these Franciscās of whom I haue spoken all wet with the sea demanding the cause therof at last they opened it vnto him with this condition that he should cōceale their names Wheruppon Galiard suppressing their names related it to others as he receiued it from them A yong man is deliuered from the whirle-poole of a Riuer CHAP. XVI BY the fauour of the B. Virgin of Loreto Trad. Laur. Annal. Laur. Rier an other eschewed nolesse dāger in a Riuer than the Franciscans did in the sea Angelus Autanus a yōg mā in the Territory of Salerno of great toward lines pietie went into the Riuer Vulturnus which passeth by Capua to wash his bodie with a fellow and companiō of his But his fellow going forward without regard and falling into the vnknowne whirl-pooles of the Riuer was in great danger of drowning Whereuppon Autanus making hast to aide his cōpaniō in hazard fell himself into the same danger out of which he laboured in vaine to deliuer the other For he himself being swallowed vp among the whirl-pooles of the swift streame but after some time cast vp againe from the bottome in the conflict of death called on our B. Ladie of Loreto as well as he could and the B. Virgin whome he inuocated was presently at hand who taking the young man out of the whirle-poole when he was almost dead receiued him into her lap and carrying him ouer the riuer for the space of a mile sett him downe in a conuenient shore Who remayned long amazed with dread of the danger and of the miracle But assoone as he came to himself he acknowleged the heauenly benefit fell downe on his knees and carefully saluting our B. Ladie his deliueresse with thankfullnes extolled her worthie praise and out of hand went to Loreto to worship the moher of God and to publish the miracle A maide of Loreto is deliuered out of a well a Cittizen of Caieta out of prison CHAP. XVII NEither did Loreto it self want the held of her Patronesse Trad. Laur. Annal. Laur. Rier in like danger of her people A yong maide cōming to draw water at a well in the Gouernours House of Loreto as she was accustomed let downe her bucket tied fast vnto a rope careleslie pulling it vp againe full of water with the weigh to the bucket tūbled headlong into the well calling on our B. Ladie of Loreto By chāce one of the chiefe Ministers of the sacred House standing in a window and seeing the maid fall into the well implored the help of the B. Virgin in her behalfe and forth with with the rest of his houshold ranne vnto the well it self A wonder to be spoken When they saw that she was in no danger at all but sate on the water with ioyfull countenance in continent they let downe a great bucket fastened to a strong rope and warning the maide what she must do without delay endeauored to draw her vp who sitting in the bucket and holding the rope in her hands was a length brought to the top of the well but among so many hands vncertaine what to doo and rashly letting go the rope before any had holde of her she tumbled downe the same way againe Whereupon all that were present inuocating the Mother of God in her behalf the maid was conueyed downe againe to the water without any harme at all though many sherds of broken potts were vnderneath For which cause letting downe ladders they got her out a slower but a safer way and presently the maide her self tolde them how a Lady of great beautie did protect her as she fell into the well in whose handes she swomme on the water without any danger or grieuance at all The same also happened vnto her as she fell downe the second time for our B. Lady receiuing her with her hands made her to sit in her lappe vpon the water vntill ladders were sought out and fastened togeather to be let downe into the well that she might be preserued by this double miracle to be no small document of the B. Virgin of Loreto's protection But a man was as infallible an argument of her help at Rome as the maide was at Loreto A certaine Cittizen of Caeta borne of honest parentage but of litle courage and m●●●nimity and of a tender disposition by nature education being accused of murder by false witnesses was so frighted at the vnwonted sight of the torments that he had rather as often it chanceth suffer execution by confessing that which was false than auoide the same by denying it in torture Being condemned to die he washed away the blemishes of his soule by sacred Confession by exhortation of the Priest committed his cause to the heauenly Iudge intreating the assistance of the B. Virgin of Loreto His prayers were heard For within a while being ouertaken with a sweete sleepe he seemed to see the B. Virgin of Loreto who bidding him be of good comfort put him in hope of life and liberty Whereuppon the innocency of the man was presently knowne by miracle and the authors of that wickednes the workers of the false crime conuicted who suffered the same death which they prepared for the innocent A Bassa of the Turkes being cured by the B. Virgin of Loreto doth honour her with gifts CHAP. XVIII Trad. Laur. Annal. Laur. Rier NEITHER were the Barbarians deuoid of the help of Loreto Corcutus a President of the Turkes whome they call the Bassa being at Constātinople the yeare 1552. was brought into euident danger of death by a grieuous and a secret impostume of the brest A certaine honest and godlie Christian serued him as a slaue who thinking the danger of his maister the occasion of his liberty went vnto the President ready to dye and certifying him of the admirable power of the B. Virgin of Loreto in curing all manner of diseases put him in good hope of recouery and without great difficulty persuaded him to call on the B. Virgin of Loreto with him to make this vow If she tooke away his disease for her sake he would giue him liberty and release him from bondage Neither did the slaue deceiue his maister nor Marie her godly Client For within a while the impostume brake and the President was cured who giuing good testimonie therof set his slaue at libertie and sent him to the B. Virgin of Loreto with letters and gifts The gifts were a mantle of notable workmanship great wax candles no

of Lasturo a Village of the State of Venice lay sicke not far from Bergamo of an incurable disease and the anguish of his infirmity wherwith he was most miserably vexed brought with it cruell and almost perpetuall paine in all his members Therfore despayring of help by Physitians he inuocated the B. Virgin of Loreto giuing himself wholy vnto her by vow which if he obtayned he promised to performe with all speed His vow had effect Being giuen ouer by the Physitians he did not so much wrestle with the disease as with death it self But suddainly in the very agony he had present help For our B. Lady as it were vnlooked for appearing vnto him in the same shape wherein she is reuerenced at Loreto which before that time he neuer saw so much as in picture and bidding him be of good comfort replenished him with great ioy and comfort Wheruppon out of hand for deuotion sake the sicke man endeuoured to kneele downe on his bed as well as he could and with great confidence in this exceeding dāger of death began to implore the assistance of the Mother of God And she with a meeke a motherly countenance said vnto him Sonne put away feare thou shalt not dy of this sicknes be thankfull mindfull of thy Vow For which cause calling to his houshold that they might hasten thither to reuerence the Queene of Heauen with due deuotion our B. Lady went suddainly out of his sight And the promise was performed on both sides For the sicke man recouering a litle after came to Loreto to performe his vow the 90. yeare of this age where leasurely viewing the Image of the Mother of God he affirmed to those to whome he related this miracle that the B. Virgin appeared vnto him in his sleep in that very forme attire that you may thinke that shape and habit was pleasing to our B. Lady A Knight of Flanders being deliuered from his enemies by an euident miracle dedicateth a wax-candle of huge bignesse to our B. Lady of Loreto CHAP. XVII Vict. Brig ABOVT the same time a Knight of Flanders presented to the B. Virgin of Loreto For a gift a votiue candle of huge bignes to wit of 300. pound weight in token of a miracle almost incredible The cause of his vow gift was this The said Knight his name is not set downe for he himself would haue it concealed escaped manifest perill of life in Flanders by help of our B. Lady who by commandment of the Prince of Parma going on improuidently with eight horsemen to view the coast fell into the ambush of the enemy The enemies were about eight hundred some horsmen some footemen who quickly spreading themselues abroad tooke from thē all hope of escape Notwithstanding the Fleming wanted not courage For inuocating our B. Lady of Loreto and animating his fellowes therūto they valiantly fought with them their confidence in the B. Virgin preuailing so much with them that it easily put away the cogitation of so great danger Such was the courage and strength which was giuen to that small company by the vertue of the heauenly help which they besought not failing them in their fight For when on euery side they were assaulted with so many handes and weapons of sundry sortes by the protection of the Mother of God they sustayned the violence of their enemies the multitude of their weapons so long till the Spanish forces came to rescue them and then the danger turned on their enemies themselues wherof many were slayne or taken And that there may be no doubt at all of the vertue of the heauenly help neither the Knight himself nor any of his fellowes nor yet any of their horses were hurt the least iote in so cruell a fight which held for the space of two houres that you may thinke they fought vnder the protection of God who fighting for them made them to ouercome In regard wherof the Knight desiring to haue a perpetuall monument of so worthy a miracle to remayne at Loreto sent the wax-candle of huge bignes wherof I haue spoken with intent that on certaine festiuall daies it should burne before the Maiesticall House of the B. Virgin And it is said that he also gaue a certaine stipend that when the same was consumed an other candle of like bignes should be put in his place for euerlasting memory to posterity A deafe-man recouereth his hearing CHAP. XVIII THIS which I am to relate is not so meruailous Annal. Laur. Rier Vict. Brig but better witnessed Erasmus Deane of the Cathedrall Church of Cracouia in Polonia being deafe in either eare heard almost nothing at all so that they must deale with him not so much by wordes as by signes But before his hearing was taken from him by report he had heard many admirable things of the B. Virgin of Loreto and seeing he could get no help by means of physicke and that the heauenly vertue of the House of Loreto came often to his mind much grieued and perplexed with the infirmity it stirred him to come to the sacred House of our B. Lady that with great confidence he might say Masse in the most Maiesticall Cell of the B. Virgin and implore her help where he found most present remedy for his griefe For assoone as he had ended Masse he perceiued that his left eare was opened and cured and the next day saying Masse in the same place he likewise recouered the vse of his right Whereby he who came to the most sacred House halfe deafe or rather deafe indeed within two dayes departed thence full glad to haue recouered the perfect vse of hearing Andrevv Bētiuoglio Gouernour of Loreto He himself told the whole matter with teares of ioy to Rutilius Benzonius the Bishop to Andrew Bentiuoglio Gouernour of Loreto on the Nones of Aprill the yeare of our Redemption 1590. At which time the new Citty of Loreto being built with great speed on the inlarged space was suddainly interrupted by the vntimely death of Xystus assaied also by other Popes to small purpose For Monte-Regal was pared about and left half plained the new Houses which were crected without the old circuite be now insteed of Suburbs wherof many remayne vnfinished that you may thinke the renowme of a Citty was not pleasing to our B. Lady of Loreto who chose her self a seate in a desert place lest the fame of the Citty rather then the Religion of the place should inuite the Pilgrims to visit her About that time Andrew Bentiuoglio departing this life Fuluius Paulucius Gouernour of Loreto Fuluius Paulucius the Protonotary Apostolicall succeeded in the Gouernement of Loreto whose vertue troublesome times did both exercise and illustrate Donaries brought or sent to the B. Virgin of Loreto in the troublesome time of Gregory the XIIII CHAP. XIX SHORTLIE after in the same yeare of our Redemption to witt 1590. in the moneth of September Vrbane the vij was created Pope who