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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10829	The admirable life of Saint VVenefride virgin, martyr, abbesse. Written in Latin aboue 500. yeares ago, by Robert, monke and priour of Shrewsbury, of the ven. Order of S. Benedict. Deuided into two bookes. And now translated into English, out of a very ancient and authenticall manuscript, for the edification and comfort of Catholikes. By I.F. of the Society of Iesus	Robert, Prior of Shrewsbury, d. 1167.; Falconer, John, 1577-1656.; Baes, Martin, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 21102; ESTC S115985	37,470	252

height of Religious Perfection choosing for that purpose to sit at the Saints feet as S. Mary Magdalen did at the feet of our Sauiour neuer satiated with the delicacies which fell from that heauenly Table vnto her by his most pious speaches and deuout instructiōs within a smal tyme out a restles and most amorous desire fully to be what an height of sanctity perfection the spirit of God for the glory of himselfe good of others intended to raise her sought more and more to illuminate her soule by heauenly documents practicall lessons for the direction of herselfe others in a spirituall and Religious life which she as a very apt scholler did not only learne but practise also in such a manner that the Saint was ouerioyed to behould her And finally finding her fully enabled not only to guide herselfe but others also in courses of Perfection he called her Parents one day vnto him and tould them that as they had liberally graunted vnto him a Church and house for the seruice of God and help of his seruants so had his diuine Maiesty liberally requited their Charity towards him by singular graces affoarded to them and especially to their Childe whom now they might well choose and propose vnto themselues as a Mistresse able to guide them in their Redeemers seruice and as a bright shining patterne of religious Perfection Wherfore being diuinely called to another place I must heere said he leaue you to the helpes of Heauenly Graces which will not be wanting vnto you persisting as now you do holily in Gods seruice and to the carefull direction of your Daughter And then conuerting himselfe to S. VVenefride Our Lord said he deare Child hath appointed you to succeed me heere in my holy labours and abiding in these parts to go onwards happily your self to guide others fruitfully in the way to eternall life as hitherto I haue taught you And doubt not but by the mouing example of your death for him already susteyned and the holy conuersation of your life you wil be able to performe what I haue said and in this very place gather togeather for your heauenly spouse many pure and deuout Virgins guided vnto him holily by you But know withall that you shal not heere end your dayes but that after seauen yeares in prayer and pennance spent in this place to your owne great Merit singular edification of others our gracious Lord will call you to another that strangers also may in the knowledge and true seruice of him be illuminated by you and know also that heerby your memory shall become glorious in future ages and your merits published to the whole world by miraculous cures helpes affoarded vnto sickly and distressed persons praying vnto you CHAP. VIII VVherein is declared S. Wenefrides griefe for her Holy Fathers departure and his comfortable speaches vnto her concerning particular Graces intended by God towards herselfe and others by her THe Godly Virgin being excessiuely grieued at her holy Fathers departure he to cōfort her in so deep an affliction tooke her by the right hand and lead her to the fountayne which miraculously had risen in the tyme place of her martyrdome sitting togeather vpō a stone neere to the side of the well called therefore to this day S. Beuno's stone You see said he heere the monumēt of your sufferings and behold also the stones therein steyned as with your bloud shed for your Heauenly Spouses sake be you therfore now attentiue and mindfull of what I shall fore-tell you concerning three especiall ter my departure now from you into a remote part of this ●land God will giue me a Cell neere the sea shore when you would send any letters or tokens vnto me as his diuine Maiesty wold haue you to do and I also do intreate the same of you once at least euery year cast them only in the streame of this fountayne and they will passing into the Ocean by many creekes and turning-shores be diuinely safely directed vnto me which graces likewise to the worlds end shall be diuulged gloriously of you And hauing ended this his speach he led her backe againe vnto the Church and said then vnto her Behould heere this Church lodgings about it which hauing byn built by the charitable magnificence of your parents and my labours I leaue vnto you to be conuerted into a copious monastery of Chast Deuout Virgins who moued by your instruction holy example of life shall togeather with your selfe meritoriously practise those heauenly documēts which by a perfit contempt of the world and a full abnegation of thēselues the two maine grounds of Religious perfection I haue often deliuered by my speaches vnto you Stupendious miracles also done for the temporall eternall good of many repayring to this very place shall heerafter be effected to the prayse of their heauenly Maker and euen bruit beasts shall not want their share in such blessings striue therfore deare Child to exhibit your selfe in all things as a liuely patterne and example to others of all Vertue As for my poore selfe I shall goe whither Gods spirit will guide me euer retayne in my hart and soule a Fatherly and louing memory of you presence alwayes edified by your example instructed by your speaches Which words of hers together with her flowing teares so moued the Saint himselfe as also her louing Parents and others that were present as not to haue their owne sorrow by staying longer with her increased after he had blessed her with his hand as hauing no toūg through griefe to speake a word more vnto her hastned his pace faster then modesty would permit her to follow him vntill at length he was gon quite out of her sight neuer more in this world to behold him so that returning with her companiōs homeward for many dayes after she remayned in her sorrow till tyme at length discret thoughts hauing eased her hart she wisely and maturely began to reflect vpon his heauenly discourses and lessons formerly giuen vnto her both how she might practise them herselfe and draw others also to the exercise therof Which in a short tyme Gods grace and the force of her holy Example did so happily effect that a great number of Noble and deuout Virgins trampling worldly wealth Honours pleasures vnder their feet for the glory and seruice of Christ betooke themselues to her gouernment liued in religious discipline holily vnder her commanding or teaching them nothing but what herselfe practised first amongst them as a shining cleere Light in safe paths of sanctity to guide them yea with such a sweet mildenes motherly loue towards them that with equall merit and contentment they obeyed her commands and obserued such rules as she had established amongst them Her wholsome aduises also they receaued as heauēly oracles such remedies as in their difficulties temptations she wisely compassionably gaue them had a heauenly kind

and body before them ceased not with out-cryes to expresse their griefe and anger togeather towards him that committed so haynous an outrage Her Parents likewise called by their cryes to the place lamented the losse of their holy sweet child lying butchered so villainously and vnexpectedly before them with more then imaginable expressions of sorrow S. Beuno in like manner now ready to celebrate leauing the aultar and approachinge to the doore was wholy dissolued into teares of compassion and griefe to behold his deare Pupill and child lying so cruelly murdered before her consecration to Christ solemnly soone after by him intended and beholding in this his griefe her Murderer standing proudly by wiping his bloudy sword on the grasse so far from repenting him of the deed without feare of God or man as he gloried proudly therein with the holy virgins head in his hand he went towards him and looking him in the face said vnto him Thou wicked man for as much as without regard of innocency or beauty thou hast murdered a Princely Virgin no lesse noble then thy selfe and art not as thou oughtest to be sorry aswell for the horrible sacriledge as foule murder heere committed detestably by thee I do heere beseech my heauenly Lord for the example of others at least to execute presently his dredfull Iudgment against thee who hast murdered his spouse troubled his people violated his Saboath and besprinkled with bloud this holy House to his honour and seruice consecrated by me And the effect of his words to the terrour and wonder of all present was such as the Prince fell dead sudaynely before him and which increased the astonishment of the people his dead body was presently either swallowed vp by the earth or taken away by Diuels so as no signe thereof afterwards appeared This done S. Beuno often kissing the virgins dead face and bathing it with his teares put it to her body coueringe them with his cloake after he had breathed in her mouth prepared himselfe to goe to the Aultar warning the people and her Parents especially to cease their lamentations conuert thē into prayers to the Creatour of soules the sole rayser of bodies after death that he would be mercifully pleased as he called Lazarus to a new life rotten before and stincking in his graue so to rayse this Princely Spouse heere butchered for her loue towards him and this chiefly for the glory of himselfe edification of his people and comfort of her parents who so freely before had dedicated her in purity of life perpetually to serue him CHAP. VI. How S. Wenefride was raysed from death to life and her Head reunited to her body by S. Beuno's prayers with a small white circle remayning in the place of her Necke where it was cut other wonders gracing stil the place of her Martyrdome AFter the holy mā had ended his Masse and the people their prayers lifting vp his hands towards heauen he prayed in this manner O Lord Iesus-Christ for whose sake this holy Virgin contemned the world and coueted heauenly things vouchsafe by the tender bowels of thy mercy loue and bounty to graunt vs the effect of our vowes now made prayers offered heere humbly vnto thee and albeit we are fully persuaded that this Godly Virgin who liued holily dyed constantly for thee be now highly exalted in heauen also with thee wanting no more the society of vs mortall miserable Creatures yet to manifest thyne Omnipotency and that supreme dominiō which thou hast ouer soules and bodies neuer dead to thy power of raysing reuniting them for the greater merit also of her soule whose body heere lyeth before vs we craue a new life for her and that she may returne after a long plentifull haruest of new merits heere gayned more enriched diuinely beautified vnto thee the beloued of her Hart and Eternall spouse who with the Father and the holy Ghost doest rule in earth and raigne in heauen for euer and euer And when the people had cryed with great deuotion Amen vnto his prayer the Virgin as newly wakened from sleep wiped her eyes face besmeared with sweat and dust before as hauing tumbled on the ground filling all present and her Parents there amongst them with ioy and admiration obseruing also as they more fixedly beheld her a pure white circle no bigger then a small threed to remayne in her faire Necke shewing the place where it had ben cut off before and was miraculously then to her body conioyned which because it euer afterwards remayned cōspicuously seene after the same manner Brewa her name before is said to haue ben changed by the peoples great veneration and loue towards her into VVenefride by VVen which doth signify white in the old British tongue added vnto it 2. letters thereof for better sound quite altered And in many apparitions of her to men and women after her second corporall death authentically recounted this white Circle in her necke conspicuously appeared to giue worldly soules thereby to vnderstand the particular glory which she had receaued of her heauēly spouse for suffering that wound so constantly for him And whereas the valley where she was martyred had ben called euer before a dry or barren bottome it was for the Christall fountayne of pure waters breaking miraculously out of the ground where her head first fell called afterwards in memory of this miracle Finhon which in old Welsh doth signify a fountayne or well indeed as this fountayne was wonderfull in the first origen therof so did the same by miraculous cures of men beasts either bathed in that water or drinking therof become famously afterwards renowned In memory likewise that store of the Virgins pure bloud had ben spilt in that place and to signify withall how sweet a Sacrifice was offered there by her the stones of the Well are either dyed or spotted all ouer with drops as it were of bloud and the mosse growing about it is as with muske yet to this day sweetly perfumed The miracle of her raysing frō death to life diuulged in those partes gayned to S. Beuno so great a fame of his singular sanctity and power with God to obteyne any thing that multitudes thereupon of Gentil people in those dayes for their instruction in the Christian fayth and Baptisme repayred vnto him whose famous acts and S. VVenefrids holy life after her being raysed shall in the rest of this booke be briefly declared CHAP. VII How S. Wenefride was solemnly veyled by S. Beuno and fully instructed in the true knowledge holy practise of a Religious life How likewise he tooke his leaue afterwards of her prophetically fortelling the sanctity of her life and her gayning to Christ of many soules S. VVenefride as another Lazarus restored to a new life with a fresh feruour of heauenly loue and deuotion applyed herselfe to learne from so great a maister as S. Beuno was how to rayse her already-illuminated soule to the