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A69640	An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions with dreams, visions, and revelations and the cunning delusions of the devil, to strengthen the idolatry of the gentiles, and the worshipping of saints departed : with the doctrine of purgatory, a work very seasonable, for discovering the impostures and religious cheats of these times / collected out of sundry authours of great credit, and delivered into English from their several originals by T.B. ; whereunto is annexed, a learned treatise, confuting the opinions of the Sadduces and Epicures, (denying the appearing of angels and devils to men) with the arguments of those that deny that angels and devils can assume bodily shapes ; written in French, and now rendred into English ; with a table to the whole work.	Bromhall, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4885; ESTC R15515	377,577	402

hand which he put forth to the Purple was on fire For it was almost wasted with blisters and vile Ulcers as with some poyson St. Anthonies fire or some other mischief that seemed to spread it self further and further Moreover they which went unto him relate that he after he was got from Hell was sore troubled in mind and his senses of hearing and seeing were very much stupefied that he was alway musing seldome spake a word though oftentimes ask't But he came home with so stern an aspect and so deformed a countenance that whom his wife and children very well knew after he came from thence he was so much altered in his face and all parts of his body that they could hardly believe he was the same man and oftentimes his acquaintance and kindred spake to him weeping for his uglinesse and the mans Idea so deformedly altered he had scarce time to dispose of his substance and to give good counsell to his children before his death Alexander libro 6. cap. 21. Genial Dier A Certain Hetrurian ploughing in the fields belonging to the Tarquinii his Plough going too deep into the ground one named Tages as the story goes brake forth in stature like a child but in Wisedome a grave and discreet Senatour and spake to him that held the Plough he being affrighted cry'd out At the noise whereof at the first there was a great concourse of neighbours then by little and little the rumour being farther spread abroad within few dayes all Hetruria was assembled into that field All hearing this child that he spake many things his words were carefully observed and written down from which by long experience came all their divination yet so that if it spread to any other Nations the Hetrurians made most and chief account thereof Franciscus Petrarcha DRusus made Consull and warring with Germany by the name of Caesar Augustus and having subdued the greatest part thereof resolved to go forward a very great woman met with him and seemed to say to him Whither goest thou insatiable D●usus Is it not in the power of the fates to see all these things but go thy wayes for now the end both of thy life and works is at hand Then going home he fell into a disease whereof he died Leonaras DUnstan an English Abbot when by the scurrilous gestures of an Hobgoblin leaping and skipping before him he understood that Edmund King of England was dead he hastned to the Kings Court and in the middle of his journey he was better certified concerning the Kings death Vincentius lib. 24. cap. 71. ADrianus Patricius being sent from Basilius the Emperour against the Carthagenians had in Peloponesus some Ships in their station On a certain night the shepheards heard those spirits that haunt thereabouts speaking one to another and saying That the day before the Sicilians or Syracusae were taken and destroyed This rumour went up and down from one to another and at last it came to Adrian who calling the shepheards to him and examining them finds the report which was brought to him confirmed by their words that he might also by his own ears approve the truth of the news the shepheards bring them to the place where making enquiry of the spirits and what they were doing he heard them say that the Syracusae were taken Cedrenus ONe Polycritus an Aetolian made by the people chief governour of Aetolia for three years married Locrides for her vertue sake with whom he slept three nights In the fourth he died The woman continued a widow at home And when her time to be brought to bed was at hand she was delivered of an Hermophrodite a wonderfull strange monster The neighbours being affrighted at this chance brought forth the young child into the market and calling an assembly and gathering together the Priests and inspectors of Monsters they consulted about it Some of them said it did foretell some discord between the Aetolians and the Locrensians For the young one was divided part was of the Mother Locrides and part of the father Aetolus Others were of opinion that the Mother should with her young one be carried out of Aetolia and burnt While they are advising on these things on a sudden Polycritus which lately died was among the rabble clad in a black vestment he spake to the Citizens which were amazed at this spectrall and at first by intreaties then by threatnings demanded the Infant to be restored to him Some denying others not consenting Polycritus being very angry snatch't up the Infant and making many of them run away as if he was mad he mangled and tore it in pieces The multitude cryed out and began to stone him But he being insensible of their blows and hitting him devoured the whole body of the child laying aside his head and presently he vanished Which fact the Aetolians taking unhandsomely and being very anxious what to do they would send to Apollo his Oracle the childs head lying on the ground began to speak and in a long discourse foretold the Citizens that great misery and destruction was hanging over their heads When they heard this Oracle they exposed their wives children and old people to shift for themselves they stayed at home expecting what was to come It happened that in the next year there was a battel between the Aetolians and the Acarnanians and on either side a great destruction Plegon Trallianus de Mirabilibus et longaevis ex Hierone IN the war by Sicily which was between Octavius Caesar and Sex Pompeius Ga●ienus the stoutest man of Caesar his Army being taken by Pompey his forces lay on the shore with his neck slasht and scarce hanging together a whole day and when it began to grow darker and darker a great company of the vulgar being met together with groanings and intreaties he desired them to bid Pompey come to him as soon as he could for he was lately set loose from the infernall places and had somewhat to tell him Pompey sent many of his familiar friends to whom Gabien said that Pompey his causes pleased the Gods below and his devout parties were an argument of Truth that he would undertake to pacify them if he did what he was commanded and so it fell out Plinius lib. 7. cap. 52. But the event it self discovered Satan's mock Caesar with the Gods above being victour sent Pompey to his underneath TWo brave and excellent young men who came new out of the fields told the news of the victory concerning the Tarquinii which warred with their associates the Romans They were thought to be Castor and Pollux L. Domitius who first called them in the market when then were rubbing and cherishing their horses which were all of muck sweat admired the newes Suetonius faith that they meeting him as he came home out of the countrey bad him declare the victory A while after 't is reported that they smiling on him handled his beard and it was of a black colour presently made a red beard I

Phalesius a private man buildeth the Temple of Aesculapius 83 The god of Heliopolis 84 A man blind from his birth receives his his sight by touching Adrian 85 Ladices sendeth an Image to Venus at Cyrena for recovering her husband who was disabled to perform nuptiall rights 86 Laodomia daugter of Pyrrhus 87 A Goat offers it self a sacrifice to Jupiter 88 The Temple of Ceres Micalessia 89 The Temple of Pluto and Juno the den of Charon 90 The Temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus a City of Peloponnesus 91 The Temple of Minerva Ilias 92 The Temple of Hercules in the Beast-Market at Rome 93 The Temple of Pallas at Methon 94 Greece troubled with a drought consults Pythia 95 The Sepulchre of Aristomenes at Messene a City in Achaia in Greece 96 Apollo Libistinus at Pachinum a Promontorie of Sicily 97 The Chappel of Minerva before the Temple of Delphos 98 The Sabine War waged against the Romans for ravishing the Virgins 99 The Holy Sheep of the Sun 100 The superstition of the Philippi inhabiting the furthest part of Scandinavia 101 A Table of Satan's wonderfull impostures for establishing of the Idolatrous invocations of Saints departed this life contrary to the preaching of St. Paul 2 Thess 2. THe miraculous restauration of John Damascen his hand unjustly cut off by Theodosius the Emperor at the Image of the blessed Virgin Mary 1 A Jew delivered from death by calling upon the god of Sergius 2 Many cured by the carrying of the dead body of the Virgin Levinua through part of Flanders 3 Many recover health at the Sepulchre of Pope Martin 4 One cured at the grave of St. Ladislaus King of Hungary 5 The Bishop of Prague his finger cut off for the Faith of Christ and thrown into a River shines in a Fishes belly 6 Genarius of Beneventum his head cut off for professing the Faith of Christ 7 Valens the Emperour an Arrian 8 The bodies of eleven thousand virgins 9 John a devout giver of Alms 10 Conradus repents heartily of his sinnes and doth penance 11 The head of a dead man speaks 12 How the Abbey of the King 's right hand came to be so called 13 The blessed Virgin Mary appears to St. Bruno 14 Nicolaus sees the shape of the blessed Virgin and her Son in the ayr on the very day wherein her Conception is celebrated 15 St. Stephen the Martyr appears to Saroltha the Wife of Grisa Duke of the Hungarians 16 The Parents of Nicolas Tolentinates vow a pilgrimage to Barium 17 Haldricus the Laodiensian Bishop cure● before the Altar of St. Martin 18 Sergius a Prince in wealth and authoririty cured of a grievous sicknesse at the Temple of St. Michael 19 John Orphanotropus brother to Michael Emperour of Paphlagonia cured at Mira of a grievous sickness 20 Henry the second Emperour cured by interceding Saints of the Stone 21 Manuel who disapproved of Images upon his resolution to restore Images according to the decrees of the Ancients when he was sick was restored to health 22 A Vision 23 A Fast held in the Church of the Virgin Mary three dayes to divert the cruel intention of Julian prevails with God 24 A Ring brought to King Edward the third from Jerusalem 25 The Statue of S. Paul weeps 26 The Mother of Leo of Iconomarum the fifth King her Vision 27 Bardus durus his Vision 28 A Vision discovered to Ambrose the Mediolanensian Bishop 29 Pulcheria sister to Theodosia her vision 30 An Apparition to Calomerus 31 A strange Miracle obtained by fasting and prayer 32 Pope Urban his Vision 33 A Deacon his vision 34 Elford King of England his vision 35 St. Andrew's cross seen in the ayr 36 Dogar King of the Scots his vision 37 An Apparition to Uladislaus and Grisa 38 Theodosius his vision 39 Massaclerus his vision 40 The appearing of St. Andrew the Apostle to a Priest 41 St. Theodore appears in ●efence of the Romans 42 Sabinus a most pious Patron of Souldiers 43 The great Sfortia his vision 44 The vision of a Priest 45 James the son of Zebedee appears to Charls the Great 46 The appering of St. Benedict to Count Sillogosus in a vision 47 The Arch-Angel Michael appears in a vision to Childebert King of France 48 Agnes Wife to Leopold Marquess of Austria desires her husband to design some place to build a Monastery 49 St. Ambrose appears threatning miseries to Caesar 50 Colanianus King of the Hungarians his vision 51 A voyce out of the Statue of the blessed Virgin salutes St. Bernard 52 Medericus Abbot of Edunium cures a Monk of libidinous cogitations 53 Many cured by a candle which extinguished was lighted by the touch of Genovepha 54 Pope Leo quencheth a fire by the sign of the Cross 55 The corporal of the Challice thrown into a fire quencheth it 56 A voyce out of the Tomb of S. Martin 57 A part of the towel wherewith our Lord wiped his Apostles feet before his last Supper brought by Monks from Jerusalem 58 St. Peter restores a Cock dressed and carved to life again 59 The Bishop of Alexandria by the help of Almighty God converts a Philosopher 60 At the Monastery of the holy Mother of God in Constantinople two blind men restored to sight before the Image of the blessed Virgin 61 The picture of Christ which Evagrius made 62 Herbs taken from the Tomb of Nicetius cure the Feaver 63 A Revelation to Valerius the Cosoranensian Bishop 64 Miracles wrought at the Sepulchre of Leodegarius 65 Uladislaus obtains issue by his Wife having been long barren by fasting and prayers 66 The body of Pedastus translated from the place where formerly it lay works a Miracle 67 Methodius a great respecter of holy Images most unjustly accused by his enemies is manifestly cleared to the joy of all pious men 68 St. Peter cures Agatha virgin and Martyr her breast torn in pieces for her steadfast confession of the Faith 70 The Mother of God appeareth to a Carpenter 71 The discovery of the bodies of the Martyrs Dionysius Rusticus and Eleutherius 72 A woman delivereth her sins in writing to Basil the Great 73 The Image of Christ speaks 74 The West Goths assertors of the Arrian Heresie 75 Luitprandus King of the Longobards translates the body of St. Austin out of Sardinia to Ticinum 76 Adelbertus cured of a Feaver at the Temple of S. Mary the Virgin 77 Genadius Bishop of Constantinople rebuketh a Priest for disgracing his profession 78 Some of the dust of Hospitius his Sepulchre carried to the Lirinensian Monastery as an holy relique 79 Boniface Bishop of Moguntium slain by the Pagans 80 Eleven hundred virgins martyred by the Huns 81 A Leper sees Christ dedicating a Temple 83 Genovepha dedicateth a Cathedrall Church to St. Dionysius 84 Houses erected by prayers 85 The Temple of the divine beautifull virgin at Regenspurg 86 The Metensian Bishop 88 Constantine adoreth the nayls of Christs Cross given him by his Mother 89 Pope Gregory sends three

falling sicknesse was cured hence it came to passe that the Kings of England were wont on Good Friday with many ceremonies to hallow the Ring the which whosoever put upon his finger should never be troubled with this disease Polydor. lib. 8. THe Statue of Saint Paul an old piece which Andronicus Comnenus Tyrannus adorning with Gold placed in the Church of holy Quadraginta which wept when the time approached that Andronicus was destroyed Andronicus hearing thereof commanded his servants to find out whether that were true to which service besides others his beloved servant Hagiocristophorita Stephanus by stairs ascended for the Statue was in a high place and wiped the eyes thereof with fine linnen whereupon tears more plentifully fell from them as if they had flowed from a spring which with great amazement he told Andronicus struck thereupon with great grief often shaking his head he said Paul wept for the great destruction that is to come to himself for he accounts it his own cause for he most cordially loved Paul and did infinitely esteem his sayings and was as well beloved by Paul And not long after hanged up by the heels he expired his life by horrible torments Nicetas lib. 2. LEo the fifth of Ironomacum his Mother as it seemed to her saw in the Temple of the Virgin Mary at Blachernes a certain woman her sonne apparelled in white following her and the floor of the Church being besprinkled with blood another woman carrying a Spear in her hand commanded a vessel to be filled and to be given to the Mother of the King which refused by her she said to her Thy son destroyes and gluts himself with the blood of all that worship we wherefore I and my sonne are not without cause moved with wrath against him The Mother of the King affrighted out of her sleep presently declares what she had by Vision and earnestly desires him to desist from the persecution of Images But he like the deaf Adder stopped his ears though he was somewhat afraid and the more for that the dream of another was declared to him For Tarasius the Patriarch appeared to a certain man calling vehemently upon one whose name was Michael that he should go to Leo and kill him in revenge of them whom most impiously and cruelly he had put to death for their Religion And not long after while he was in the Temple at divine service he was slain by the conspiracy of Michael Traulus Cuspinianus BArdus Durus a little before his destruction dreamed That as he was making haste with the Emperour Michael to the solemnization of a certain holy-day to the great Temple whither when they approached near they followed certain men apparelled in white who led them to Seats about the Tribunal wherein they saw a certain old man sitting alone whom he thought to be Peter chief of the Apostles at whose feet Ignatius was cast down whom a little before they had severely bound and castigated in revenge of the wrongs he had done moreover Peter delivering a sword to one of them who stood by commanding that Theorgistus for so he called Caesar as obnoxious to divine wrath should be placed amongst those who stood on the left hand and cut in pieces and Asebotecnus by this name he deciphers that Emperour as an impious son Cedrenus A Nocturnal Vision discovered to A●brose the Mediolanensian Bishop the bodies of the Martyrs Gervasius and Protasius it not being known to that day where they lay they appearing to him in his sleep such as when they were found So at Jerusalem in the seventh year of the reign of the Emperour Honorius it appeared to Gamaliel Lucianus a Priest by dream where the body of Stephen the Protomartyr and the bodies of the sons of Abiba lay nor did he give credit to his dream or Vision till the same was thrice presented to him in his sleep and then seeking for the bodies he found them in number and form according to his Vision the Church keeps a holy-day for the invention of Stephen at this time in testimony hereof Fulgosus lib. 1. cap. 5. SOzomenus gives a large narration how Pulcheria sister to Theolosius found out the fourty Martyrs which suffered under Lucinius at a certain placed Sebastes in Armenia whose reliques as by digging she caus'd to be search't for Thirsus the Martyr appearing to her suggested and admonish'd her to translate them to him and afterwards the fourty Martyrs in a military habit splendidly apparelled manifested themselves to her Sozomenus lib. 9. cap. 2. Nicephorus saith that Stephen the Protomartyr appeared to Pulcheria whose reliques when the Citizens of Constantinople desired to take away and keep with them he saith the Mules which drew the Coach wherein the reliques were spoke with a voyce like to men THere appeared to a certain Husbandman named Calemorus belonging to the Nice-President Chophares near Eleutheropolis in Palestine the Prophet Zacharias who taking into a certain Orchard shewed the places digged wherein his reliques lay Sozomenus lib. 9. cap. 8. IT was commonly reported amongst the Venetians That it was not for a long time known in what place the body of St. Mark lay and that it was either by divine power translated from the place wherein it had there layn or was stoln away but upon publike warning of a solemn day set apart to fast and pray and observation thereof accordingly the Citizens following the Clergy to the Temple of the Saint they say this miracle happened that an arm rising out of a side of the Church appeared to the anxious and solicitous multitude whereupon with great joy they remove the body and lay it in a more honourable place moreover it was decreed that it should onely be lawfull for the Prince and Procurators of the Temple to come to the most sacred Tomb of St. Mark Sabel lib. 3. Ennead 9. SAint Benedict appeared to Pope Urban in his sleep and said Doubt not but my body rests at Cassinum and for a testimony of the certainty hereof thou rising with thy brethren to perform the office of the Church for Nocturns shalt be cured of the Plurisie wherewith thou art now afflicted The event proved directly according to the Vision Chronicon Cassinense lib. 4. cap. 5. BAsilius Macedo who afterwards obtained the Empire of Constantinople when he was a child lost his father His mother much afflicted with poverty resolved by her labour in service to maintain her self and son coming to Megalopolis at night because poor woman she wanted wherewithall to defray her charges at an Inne she went to the Church of Saint Diomedes and being wearied with her travel fell asleep the holy Martyr that night appeared to a certain Deacon of that house which had not yet taken the orders of a Priest in a dream and commands that he take into the house the King which lay out a doors in a ditch close to the porch of the Temple The Deacon awakened with his dream went out and finds Basil a young

youth asleep and thinking it a sleepy phantasm returned into the Temple and falling asleep again he was again and again awakened with the same Vision wherein he was strictly admonished that he should fetch in the King therefore at length he goeth to Basilius and raising him from his sleep courteously invited and led him into the Temple and helped him to all necessary accommodation whereof he then stood in need This Deacon had a friend and kinsman at that time a servant to Theophiliza who for his affinity was familiar with the Emperour Michael and Barda Caesar his Uncle by his mothers side this Deacon declares to his brother the vision he had seen and desires him that he would help this Basill whom according to the command he had in his vision entertained into the service of some Prince who preferred him to his Lord Theophiliza and presently these two brothers tell the dream to Basil and bind him by oath to requite what kindness he had received from them when ●e should enjoy his Kingdom Cuspinianus ex Zonara Cedreno ELfred King of England heavily afflicted with the losse he received by the victory of the Danes over him Bishop Chulbert appeared to him in his sleep saying England is justly scourged for her former sins but Almighty God looks with mercy and compassion upon the meritorious prayers sufferings and tears of his distressed servants and Saints thy Kingdom is with much cruelty extorted from thee but after a short time of affliction thou shalt be gloriously restored and firmly settled in thy Land and this shall be the sign of the certainty of what I tell thee Thy fishers shall this next day come to thee laden with infinite store of fish And which increaseth the Miracle though the waters be frozen so that humane reason cannot possibly hope for any such thing and the coldness of the weather is such that it seemeth a most ridiculous thing to endeavour to catch fish yet what I say shall come to pass and when thou art in prosperity remember thy deliverance and the messenger thereof his mother had the like Vision both of them awaking tell their dreams and immediately the fishers come to them with abundance of fish Vincentius lib. 24. cap. 40. ex Holinand Et Willielmus lib. 2. cap. 14. de gestis Anglorum WHen Hungus King of the Picts a Christian was to fight with Athelstane King of England in ayd of the Scots in the night the Armies both of Hungus and Athelstane saw in the Firmament a shining cross in the form of St. Andrews cross resembling the Greek letter χ which was cause of fear and terrour to them But Hungus warned by a dream encouraging his Souldiers assured them that the cross was a sign of Victory to them which accordingly came to pass Cardanus lib. 13. de rerum varietate cap. 81. EDgar King of the Scots being about to fight against Donaldus was admonished by a dream that he should bring with him the standard of St. Cutbert therefore having performed some accustomed holy ceremonies and devotions he took the standard out of the Monastery and the Souldiers belonging to Donaldus forsaking him he was taken without sedition or blood shed Cardanus ibidem ULadislaus and Geysa brethren as they were setting their Army in order to fight a battle against Salomon King of the Hungarians an Angel was perceived by Uladislaus to put a crown of gold upon the head of Geysa who as soon as his brother informed him thereof vowed to dedicate a Temple in the place where he should obtain the victory to the blessed Virgin and the Enemies being overcome deliberately advising concerning the same where hard by a Church dedicated to St. Peter behold a Stag which had a most remarkable head with broad interwoven horns upon whom most shining shapes appeared he made towards a Wood and there stood at gaze where the Temple was afterwards built the Souldiers following after the Stag and seeking with their arrows to shoot him he fled into Danubius and was never afterwards seen Ladislaus much taken with this wonderfull sight saith No doubt but this was the Angel of God but what was that appearance of a face in his horns presently saith Geysa They were not horns but wings nor shapes of bright faces but most glorious shining feathers but where he stood at gaze is the place wherein we are directed to build the Temple wherefore hard by the Church of St. Peter they built a Temple to the blessed Mother Bonfinius lib. 3 4. Decad. 2. THe night before Theodosius joyned battle with Eugenius at the Alpes he dreamed as Paul Diaconus and Nicephorus write that two men gloriously apparelled in white sitting upon white horses commanded him to begin his battle by the break of day for it was decreed by Divine providence that he should victoriously overcome his enemies and that they declared their names to be John the Evangelist and Philip the Apostle and that a certain Souldier had the like dream is reported by Theodoretus lib. 5. cap. 24. MAssaclerus sent by the Emperour Honorius against Gildo to regain Africa from his brother who ambitiously affected the Empire in his sleep dreamed that he saw the Mediolensian Bishop Ambrose a dead man long before with his pastorall staff to strike the ground thrice and thrice to say Here even in this very place And the next day Massaclerus with much facility overthrew Gildo Fulgosus THe Roman Prince retreating to Antioch Andrew the Apostle appeared to a Priest named Peter Pontius one indued with simplicity void of fraud and shewed to him the Spear which pierced our Saviour's side which lay buried in a Temple dedicated to St. Peter upon finding whereof the besieged City oppressed with famine were so far encouraged that they made a gallant Sally wherby they overcame Corbana who besieged the City by command and advice of Belfech Turca King of the Persians he being encouraged thereunto by divination gathered from the flying of birds the Bishop of Nicene carrying the Lance which had pierced our Saviours side amongst the Troops of those who sallied out in array against the besiegers Emilius WHen there had been long and doubtfull War 'twixt the Romans and Rossians those who came from Constantinople to John Zimisca auxiliaries to the Emperour did by divine providence assist the Romans for as it is reported a storm did violently beat in the faces of their enemies and furthermore a mighty horseman was seen of many who running amongst the Romans broke the Ranks of the Enemies and it appears it was Theodore for that a Religious Woman of Byzantium dreamed the night before that fight that she saw the Mother of God with a great company who said O Theodore thy dear friend John and mine too is in a great strait being now in battell Wherefore bring him speedy help she told her dream to certain honest friends of hers who observing the time found that it was the very night before the last day of

and dreamed that he saw Martin and Briccius together discoursing concerning his sicknesse and that Martin signed his forehead with the sign of the Crosse and with a staff which he carried in his hand touched that part of him which was diseased Therefore being awakened for joy he cries out with a loud voice to whom his servants wondring at the noyse run with speed and removing the cloth wherewith the sore place was bound found that it was whole and that there onely remained a scar in the place where the Canker had been Fulgosus lib. 1. cap. 5. THere was near Brundulum an holy Temple of Saint Michael unto which one Temple the people of Clodia Matemancum and the Venetians themselves came with great Zeal to do their devotions It happened also that at Senogallia a certain man called Sergius a Prince in wealth and Authority was afflicted with a grievous disease who heard a voice in the night which said if he would make a vow to visit the holy Temple of Saint Michael he should recover his health Whereupon he made a vow and according thereto leaving his Country soyl visited the Temple and bestowing great gifts upon it returned home to his own house being freed from his sicknesse Egnatius lib. 1. cap. 6. JOhn Orphanotropus brother to Michael Emperour of Paphlagonia the Physicians despairing of his cure in his sleep he saw Nicolas the Great who admonished him to go to Myra assuring him that assoon as he came thither he should recover his health He therefore speedily repairs thither where deservedly bestowing upon the Clergy of that place Oyntment and other rich and pretious gifts and encompassing the famous City of Myra with a most strong wall he returns home perfectly cured of his disease Cedrenus HEnry the second Emperour when he took with great pain an exact view of the Cities of Apulia was so miserably infested with the stone that almost all men despaired of his recovery but he sustained his sicknesse with so great patience judging it to be as a rod of correction for his sins sent to him from Almighty God that as he ascended the hill Cassinum desiring the intercession of Saints Saint Benedict and Saint Scolastica for Physitians could do him no good He saw in his sleep Benedict standing by him and with a Knife to have opened his privy members and took out a great stone making the wound whole and putting it into the Kings hand who awakened from his sleep seeing and perceiving the great miracle called his guard to him that they might fetch his Prince to whom he shewed this great miracle which transcended humane capacity and belief together with the scar of the incision out of which the stone had been taken Therefore giving immense thanks to the most good great and immortal God and giving to the Temple of Saint Benedict most great gifts and offerings and endowing it with great possessions and yearly rents near adjoyning thereunto He departed from Cassinum Cuspianus MAnuel a Captain under Theophilus the Emperour who had disapproved the worship of Images and then wavered in his Judgment concerning the same fell into a grievous sicknesse insomuch that it was verily believed he would dye thereby certain Monks of the Monastery of Studium to whom it was shewed that he was dying came to him and approaching to his bed side found by his breathing that he was yet alive and delivered to him the joyfull tydings that he should recover his health how can this be saith he speaking with a weak and low voice the faculties of his Soul being much weakened and his body dried up with heat the Monks answered All things are possible with God therefore if when he should recover his health he would endeavour that Images might be restored according to the decrees of the Antients they assured him that he should be restored to life and health which when they had with much certainty declared they departed In a short time after his sicknesse was asswaged and his naturall faculties restored to their former strength he was altogether freed from his sicknesse Cedrenus A Certain friend to Julian travayling with much haste towards him then in Persia being forced for want of an Inne to go somewhat out of his way to a Church which was near reposed himself all night therein whether sleeping or waking he knew not he saw in the night many of the Apostles Congregated complaining of the contumelies and disgraces of the Emperour cast upon the Church taking counsell amongst themselves what was to be done and having deliberately spoken of it and many things more they appearing as it were perplexed two of them rising up in the midst of them advising them to be of good cheer making hast to destroy the Empire they left that counsell or conference The man who had this admirable Vision neglecting the journey he had begun that he might see the issue of his Vision stayes another night and sleeps in the same place and sees the same assembly to whom upon a sudden they which the night before went to fight against Julian came in as returned from their journey and declared to the company that Julian was dead Sozomenus lib. 6. cap. 2. NAuglerus lib. 2. Generatione decima-tertia reports that Basill Bishop of Caesaria Cappadocia by reason of Julian his threatning to destroy Caesaria as he returned from the Persian War proclaiming a fast to be kept for three dayes in the Temple to implore the help of Almighty God in the Church of the Virgin Mary after finishing whereof he saw in his sleep Mercury a Souldier lately dead who by the command of the Virgin Mary killed Julian and that the arms hanging over his Tomb were gone thence and the keeper of the Church demanded what was become of them said he knew not but did affirm by Oath that they were there the last evening Basill therefore returning to the Hill called others up and told them that Julian was dead and going with them to the Sepulchre of Mercury found his launce restored to the place it used to hang all bloudy But Hermanus Gyges in storibus temporum reports this in the time of Julian not by Basill but Blasius a certain Bishop of Cerastenses EDward the third King of England having almost reigned his twenty fourth year there was a Ring brought him from Jerusalem by certain men who came thence which he long before had privately given to a poor man who obtained it as an alms which he sought for the love that the King bore to Saint John the Evangelist and not long after falling sick having learnt the most absolute vertue of a Christian which is contentedly to resign his Soul to the most great and glorious God he was buried in the Temple of Westminster and shortly after canonized a Saint The ring was long after kept with great veneration in the same Church which was a present cure to all infeebled and weak members of Men and Women and by the touch of it the