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A29396	The school of the Eucharist established upon the miraculous respects and acknowledgments, which beasts, birds, and insects, upon several occasions, have rendred to the Holy Sacrament of the altar : whence Catholicks may increase in devotion towards this divine mystery, and hereticks find there their confusion / by F. Toussain Bridoul ... ; printed in French at Lille, 1672, and now made English, and published ; with a preface concerning the testimony of miracles.; Escole de l'Eucharistie. English	Bridoul, Toussaint, 1595-1672.; Clagett, William, 1646-1688.	1687 (1687)	Wing B4495; ESTC R9439	58,294	76

away Then the Fly mounting up higher and stopping a little on a suddain fell down dead at the foot of the Chalice as a punishment for the trouble she had given them during the Sacrifice Caesarius l. 9. c. 10. Another like Punishment of another Fly ABout the year 1545. as one sung the Conventual Mass in a Monastery of the Celestines the Priest that celebrated perceived at the Communion that a Fly was got into the Chalice he endeavoured to catch it and to take it out but all in vain but seeing she was disturbed of her own accord she flew away As the Priest after dinner was thanking God that he had escaped this mischance the same Fly came to settle upon the Arm of the V. F. Frier John Bardoul●t and tho' he shook his arm yet she continued fixed Then thinking of what had happened at Masse he seized her being as yet wet with the Sacred Blood after this he carried her into the Vestry where she received the Penalty of her rashness according as it is commanded by the Canons Gon. in hist ejus l. 2. c. 126. A Mule adores the Sacrament S. Anthony of Padua disputing one day with one of the most obstinate Hereticks that denyed the truth of the H. Sacrament the Saint drove him to such a plunge that he stood mute yet so it was that not being willing to confess that he was wholly convinced he desired that the Saint would prove this truth by some Miracle S. Anthony accepted the condition and said he would work it upon his Mule Upon this the Heretick kept her shut up three days without eating or drinking The third day the Saint having said Masse took up the H. Host with great reverence and made them bring forth the hungry Mule to which he spake in these termes In the name of the Lord whom I tho' unworthy hold in my hands I command thee without delay to come and do reverence to thy Creator and confound the Malice of Hereticks making every one understand the Truth of this most high Sacrament which we Priests handle at the Altar and that all Creatures are subject to their Creator Whilst the Saint made this discourse the Heretick sifted out Oats to his Mule to make him eat but the Beast having more understanding than his Master without minding the Oats kneeled and prostrated it self before the H. Sacrament adoring and honouring it as its Creator and Lord. This Miracle comforted all the faithful and enraged the Hereticks except him who had disputed with the Saint who was converted to the Catholick Faith Wadingus in a●n Minorum A Mule serves for an Occasion to honour the H. Sacrament IN the year 1453. on Thursday the 6th of June this following Miracle happen'd A War being raised in Piedmont between the Savoyards and the French about certain Merchants Goods that had been detained at Juigtie and the heat of the War increasing the Place was taken and left to pillage A Souldier entred into the Church and carried away thence the Tabernacle of the H. Sacrament where he had a consecrated Host and having hid it in a Pack marched towards Turin When he arrived there at the Gate of Suse the Mule that carried the Goods and the Booty fell down to the ground neer the Church of S. Sylvester The Pack where the Hosts were opened of it self and the Host came forth and flew up into the Air accompanied with Splendors and casting forth Rays like the Sun This wonder having been seen by a venerable Person called Bartholomew Loconi he went presently to give notice of it to the Bishop of Turin who was at that time the Reverend Lewis Nomagnano who came thither without delay with the Cross and the Clergy Being come to the place he and all that were present kneeled down on the ground and whilst the Tabernacle lay on the Earth the Host alone remained hanging in the Air brightly shining Whereupon the Bishop made them bring the Chalice and standing with it devoutly under the Sacred Host it came down into it which he carried with great Respect and Solemnity to the Cathedral Church where there was set up for it a rich and artificial Tabernacle which continued till the building of a new Dome for to perpetuate the memory of the Fact There was also built a Chappel of the H. Sacrament in the foresaid Church of S. Sylvester where this Miracle is to be seen painted and he erected a devout Fraternity also of the H. Sacrament Nic. de Laghi tract 1. dist 9. cap. 93. A Mule by Dying acknowledges the Verity of the H. Sacrament A Little Town in Spain called Aroca containing about a thousand People being besieged by an infinite number of Saracens the Inhabitants resolved to defend themselves but so as they would first receive the Communion and hear Masse The affair was pressing and therefore they committed the business of communicating to six of the chief of them The Priest put on his H. Vestments to celebrate and consecrated the Hosts but a little before the Communion news came that an Assault was made by the Enemies which obliged these Communicants to run armed to the Walk and God accepting the will for the deed did so favour these devoted of his that they defeated the Enemies some being slain and the rest put to flight After which these six returned to the Church with the People to receive the Communion But the Corporal or Cloath being unfolded the six Hosts were found all bloody and sticking to the Linnen so that they could not separate them Moreover the Enemies to revenge their disgrace returning in greater numbers gave a second Assault The advise given was that the Priest should also go to the Fight bearing the H. Corporal and these six bloody Hostes as well thereby to encourage the Citizens as for to terrify the Enemies and it succeeded so well that God gave the victory to the Christians After this they deliberated whither they should carry this parcel of H. Reliques so as to be safely kept and honoured The Lot being thrice cast it fell upon the Town of Aroca A Mule having been taken among the Spoiles of the Enemy they set the H. Hosts upon her back letting her go whither she would the Clergy and People following her with lighted Torches In the way they offered to her Straw Hay and Grass all which she refused thô she was very hungry as not having eaten a long while and went on straight to the Town of Aroca Coming into a Church nigh the Hospital she fell on her knees on the ground and being disburdned of this pretious load she dyed it being undecent that she which had served in so worthy an Employment for the Glory of God should serve any Man after that There was another wonder in this matter viz. That after three hundred years this most H. parcel of Reliques continues in the same beauty and lively colour as if the thing had but newly happened and all the People of the neighbouring

travelled then in this part of Italy informed himself carefully of this matter that it happened a little while before our First Fathers came into Italy and found that all had happened as has been told P. Orlandin in his Hist of the Society tom 1. l. 2. n. 27. 3. Another admirable History of what happened not to an Asse but to a man turned into an Asse A Certain Knight of Jerusalem arriving at the Town of Famagusta in Cyprus with some others of the same Order as they were busied to provide themselves of things necessary for the finishing their Voyage this Knight went abroad and walking along by the Sea side he accosted a Woman and asked her whether she had any Eggs to sell She that was another Medea in Sorcery seeing him young lusty and a stranger that the Country people might suspect nothing desired him to wait a while and she would furnish him with every thing he wanted As she tarried somewhat longer than he would have had her so her fear lest the Pilot should not leave him ashore caused her to make more hast So she brought him the Eggs and told him that if the Ship was gone and he would come back to her he should be welcome With this provision he drew towards his Ship and seeing that his Companions were not yet come he fell to eating his Eggs. As he was eating them to his admiration he found himself wholly altered and that he went as it were out of himself so that in an hours time he became dumb and as if he had lost his Brains so he exprest it after he was well not knowing whence this happened Moreover when it was time to set Sail he drew towards the Ship to take his place there but was driven away by great blows of a Staff since he was changed into an Asse He suspected now ill dealing and that this Woman had bewitched him hearing them call him Asse notwithstanding though he could not make answer being dumb yet he made another attempt to get into the Ship but was treated just as before being repulsed as an Asse by the stroaks of a good Cudgel Being thus abandon'd by all he was forced to go back to that Womans house whom he served as an Asse for the preservation of his life the space of 3 years this Witch making use of him to carry provisions to the House at 3 years end this poor young man following the Sorceress at a little distance comming into the Town in shape of an Asse by good chance passing by a Church he heard the Bell ring for the Elevation of the Host and presently he turned towards the Church but not having the hardiness to go in fearing to be driven away he staid without bending his knees and leggs towards the ground and raising his head bowed it to adore the H. Sacrament This being observed by some Merchants of Genoa and being greatly astonish'd they followed this Asse which a Woman drove away with a Cudgel and went after them both as far as to the house Hereupon they advertised the Judge of the Town concerning this matter who caused both the Asse and Woman to be apprehended She being exaamined confessed her crime and promised the Judge that if he would suffer her to go home she would restore the young Knight to his former shape which she did As for her she was afterwards condemned to the fire and burnt for a Witch Nic. de Laghi p. 244. Hier. Mengi de arte Exorcisticâ B. Biche A Hind 1. Hinds come to Masse on a H. Martyrs day and make an offering of a young Cheverel ST Athenogenes a Martyr under the Emperour Dioclesian whose feast is kept on the 16th of July returning to his Monastery found none there save a Hind the Monks being before laid in Prison which he had a long time nourisht She presenting her self before him and moving his Compassion he blessed her and prayed God that she might never be taken nor fall into the Hunters nets neither she nor her young ones Charging her further that she and others of them should yearly bring a Cheverel to the Monastery to perpetuate the memory of this favour and priviledge All came to pass as the Martyr had required for every year after the reading of the Gospel at the time of celebrating the Masse of the H. Martyr they saw a Hind enter into the Church and after she had offered a Cherevel to the Saint went back into the Forrests It was ordained that this Cheverel should serve for the feasting the Priests that had celebrated the Office on the day of that Feast Raderus Viridarii SS p. 1. Boeufs Oxen. Oxen adore the H. Sacrament CErtain Robbers broke into a Church of a Town called Homel siezing upon a Casket in which they found nought besides some reliques and the Pix in which they kept the H. Sacrament But this booty not turning much to their profit they left all in the Fields In the morning before day a Peasant went out with his Oxen to plow the Oxen being yoked in the plough began to draw but when they were come to the place where the H. Pix lay they stopt on a suddain the Peasant not knowing what was the matter cryed to them aloud and push'd them with his Staff to make them go forward but all in vain He increased his blows and his noyse to no purpose onely that he received their kicks they having more regard to the H. Sacrament than to their Patron The Peasant in great anger left his plow to look whether any thing was there which might cause this stop As he did this he took notice of that Pix lying at the feet of his beasts with the Relicks belonging to his Village Being in a great astonishment he left the field and his plough to advertise the Parish-Priest of what he had found Upon this report the Priest came out in procession with the people to the place where the Host and the H. Relicks lay which they carried back to the Church with the same devotion where they put them under a more safe Custody Caesarius l. 9. 7. 2. Another story to the same purpose IN Bavaria not far from Ingolstad a Peasant who was a simple but devout man not being able on all Festivals to be present at Masse because he was obliged to look after his Cattel put a part of the consecrated Host which he had reserved into a hole made in his Staff which when he could not go to Church he always fixed in the ground and addressed his prayers to it adoring the H. Sacrament Now one time as he saw his beasts run about hither and thither and would fain stop them he heedlesly threw down his Staff where the H. Sacrament was But presently reflecting upon what he had done ran in great haste to take it up As he fell on his knees to do it he saw that the ground where his staff was depressed it self and so much the more as he

and heard a Masse from the beginning to the end Ater which he got again on horseback and went without any difficulty about his business which he dispatched sooner and more successfully than he thought he should have done Nicholas de Laghi ex Andr. Ebor. Lusit de Orat. 7. Horses lose their lives for saving the honour due to the H. Hosts THe Marshal of Aumont having brought the Town of St. Porcien in France under the League his Souldiers pillaged the Parish Church from whence they took away the Pix full of Hosts which they carried to the stable where their horses stood Where having emptied the Pix they threw the Hosts mingled with Oates into the Manger to feed their Horses therewith and as the horses could not retire being tyed to the racks to prevent the indignity that might happen suddenly fire descended from Heaven and killed the horses without touching any ways the Headstals Thus the horses lost their Lives to hinder the affront and irreverence which the Hereticks would have put upon the consecrated Hosts P. Fodere Hist de la province de S. Bonavent Cheure She-goat 8. A Shee-goat brings up an Infant devoted to the H. Sacrament IN Poland an Infant was lost its parents being ignorant what became of it for the space of three years the Father and Mother greatly afflicted at this mishap had recourse to Heaven to help them to some news of it After all they made a vow that if they could learn where it was they would go a Pilgrimage to the H. Sacrament of Posnanie After this the Child was found in a Forrest and told them that all that time it had been fed by a Wild Shee-goat which had also taken care to defend it against the Nights cold Traterus apud Bzovium Tom. 5. p. 205. in fine Chiens Dogs 9. Dogs revenge the injury done to the H. Hosts OPtatus Milevitan writes thus in his second Book against Parmenion that the Donatist-Hereticks had given the H. Host to Dogs but that their own Dogs instead of touching the H. Sacrament to revenge the injury done to their Creator fell upon their Masters and tore them in pieces 10. A Dog punished by Heaven for making a noise during the Masse IN the Life of Bl. Dalmace Monerio of the Order of St. Dominick it is reported that this Father in an Embassy of his to the Convent of Castellon observed that a Lady called Villeneufue came to hear Masse at this Convents Church accompanied with a little Dog which made a great noise with little Bells that hang round his neck He intreated the Lady not to bring the Dog thither any more which she promised One day having shut up her little Dog in a Chamber she came to Masse at the same Church In her absence through the carelesness of a Servant that opened the Chamber door the Dog slipping out went strait to Church to find again his Lady as soon as he was entred he fell a barking and making a great noise to the disturbing of the Priests Devotion who was saying Masse Whereupon Bl. Dalmace lifting up his Eyes prayed God not to suffer that Beast further to interrupt his Devotion Behold a strange Prodigy at that instant there appeared in the Church a great Dog with black and rugged Hair seen by none either before or after which seized so furiously on the Collar and Bells of this little Dog that he lay overturned for dead on the ground and the Bells he had round his neck were never seen the least parcel of them any more Of such importance is silence for the right celebration of the H. Sacrifice as S. Ambrose reports that a certain H. Priest commanded the Frogs that croaked a little way from the Church to hold their peace during the Divine Office and they obeyed Lib. 3. de Instit Extract from the Life of B. Dalmace by Nic. Eymeric Jac. Bleda Mirac 153. p. 296. A Dog respects and adores the H. Sacrament and punishes the Blasphemy of his Master NIcholas de Laghi in his Book of the Miracles of the H. Sacrament says that a Jew blaspheming the H. Sacrament dared to say in the presence of many Christians that if they would give it to his Dog that he would eat it up without shewing any regard to their God The Christians being very angry at this outragious speech and confiding in the Divine Providence had a mind to bring it to tryal Presently one spreads a Napkin on the Table upon which they laid many Hosts though there was onely one among them all that was consecrated The hungry Dog being put upon the same Table set himself to eat them all up but coming to that which had been consecrated without touching it he kneeled down before it and afterwards fell with rage upon his Master catching him so closely by his Nose that he took it quite away with his Teeth Jac. de Voragine in the Feast of Corpus Christi De Laghi tract d. 1. 9. c. 96. The same which S. Matthew warns such like Blasphemers saying Give not that which is holy to Dogs lest they turn again and rent you c. 7. A Peasant being delivered from mischievous Dogs devoted himself to the H. Sacrament A Peasant of Poland going one Sunday in the Forrest set himself to work without regard to the holiness of the day and to cut down a great Tree While he was at work there chanced to come thither a youth that was akin to him with whom he took his repast to recruit his strength Mean while he observed a Gum upon a Tree hard by and set this Lad upon the Tree to gather it The Tree about which the Peasant had taken such pains and now bended towards the ground came down at the same time and fell upon the Lad kill'd him stark dead The Man sadly frighted with this accident ran to the Village to get counsel and help but in his way behold two black Dogs and very furious met him and ran after him to fall upon him He made the sign of the Cross for his defence and vowed to undertake a Pilgrimage to the H. Sacrament of Posnanie so he might but escape As he thought them to be infernal Dogs as indeed they were so he perceived them suddenly to toss up and down furiously and to say to him with a Mans voice If thou hadst not defended thy self with those Arms there had been an end of thy life both body and soul The Peasant right glad to see himself out of danger took care to bury the youth and afterwards performed his vow and repaired to Posnanie there to return thanks to God and to adore the H. Sacrament Treterus apud Bzovium Tom. 5. An Infant was born with a Head like a Greyhound whose Father was hunting without regarding to say Masse A Gentleman of the Low-Countrys used to go a hunting at all times without any regard to the Masse or Divine Offices for which he had been often blamed by his wife who

and Devotion towards the H. Sacrament of the Altar lookt to a little Garden of Flowers he had which he made use of to spread before the H. Eucharist On the Eve of Corpus Christi day he went into his Garden to look on his Flowers which he saw there growing very fresh and in great numbers of which he was extreamly glad but in the Morning going in to gather them he perceived a number of Wormes all round about which had eaten them up and consumed them In this streight he ran hastily to the H. Sacrament and after he had adored it he earnestly beseeched it to deliver him from his Sorrows by restoring the Flowers he had reserved for the honour of his most H. Body In confidence that our Lord had heard his Prayer he returned to his Garden and found it all smiling with fresh and fair Flowers and those little Vermin lying dead to enrich the Ground This great Devotion which he had testified all his life time towards the H. Eucharist obtained for him the happiness to expire and render his Soul to his Creator in the presence of the most Glorious Virgin Mother of her dear Son our Lord and of his seraphick Father S. Francis on the H. Night of Christmass Franc. Gouraga de brig rog Seraph Rel. S. Franc. 3. p. in prov Valent. con 12. Wormes revenge the Injury done to the H. Sacrament A Thunderbolt having by God's Providence fallen upon Apollo's Temple in Daphne the building was beat down and lay in Ashes Julian the Apostate attributing this burning to the Zeal of the Christians commanded that all the H. Vessels of Gold and Silver of great Value in the great Church built by Constantin should be brought into the Emperour's Exchequer as forfeited Among those Persons that were most ready to execute this Order was Julian this Emperour's Uncle who governed the Empire of the East who was suddenly struck with a Malady that held him for forty days lying along on the ground without Speech or Sense The cause of this sudden Malady was attributed to what he had done in seizing upon the H. Vessels as Pixes Chalices and such others which he had broken in pieces and had made them up for a Seat to sit on He recovered indeed his Senses but it was to feel extraordinary Torments in his Bowels where strange Ulcers bred with so much corruption that all the Flesh ran into Wormes which tho' they endeavour'd by applications to allure as it were and draw them forth yet instead of that they went further inward and fastened themselves to the live Flesh and never ceased to torment him till he had vomited out his Soul at his infamous and noysome mouth Niceph. Callist in hist Eccles l. 10. c. 29. Vipers honour the H. Sacrament by quitting those whom they had afflicted IN the year 1651. at Breste a Town in Poland a great Lady was molested for some while with so strange a Witchery that she vomited live Vipers and Froggs which caused horrour to all those that heard her speak of it and to her self who was afflicted thereby with very great torment She advised with our Fathers about it and from them she learnt that there was not a more soveraign and effectual Remedy against such Witcheries than to approach the H. Eucharist with a great Faith and Confidence She made use of this advice with such success that at length she found her self released and quit of this Witchcraft and restored to that health and quiet which she enjoyed before this Misfortune Ex Literis annuis Poloniae 1651. 5. Nadasi FINIS The LICENSE THese Histories taken out of Catholick Authors and containing nothing contrary to Faith or good Manners may be made publick Given at Lille June 20. 1672. R. Du Laury Provost of S. Peters