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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

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

of the Booke conteyning in it sundry strange and miraculous passages shall seeme ridiculous to Protestants chancing to read them it is not much to be wondred at sithence they will be their owne choosers euen in the very beliefe of sacred Verities themselues diuinely reuealed and sleight as fabulous Legends the Liues of Saintes written by S. Athanasius S. Ambrose S. Hierome S. Climachus S. Gregory and other holy Fathers It sufficed my Author and so it shall me that deuout Catholiques for whose instruction and comfort he penned first his Historie will piously and probably assent to that which heere is credibly proposed vnto them auoyding two extremes therein the one is of belieuing things ouerlightly the other of belieuing nothing at all but as fancies and selfe-opinions do guide them The which in Sectaries following commonly this latter extreme in their iudg-ment of Catholique writings is a kind of Infidelity and Impiety mixed togeather for if God be wonderfull in his Saintes as the Royall Prophet telleth vs Psal 67. and Christ in his Ascension towards heauen did so expresly promise that these signes should follow such as did belieue in him In my name said he they shall cast out Diuells they shall speake with new tongues c. why should we vpon probable testimonies refuse to belieue such wonders to haue ben done by Saintes as diuine testifications of their true Fayth and great graces heere obtayned The sacred body of this Virginall Blessed Saint was solemnly translated to Shrewsbury in this Authors tyme in the yeare of our Lord 1138. and raigne of K. Stephen and there in his owne Abbey magnificently interred that greater honour and veneration in so populous and Religious a Citty as that was then might be yielded vnto it where it continued for aboue 400. yeares till Heresie preuayled vtterly to ouerthrow in our Country the publique profession of Catholique Religion and deface the Venerable monuments thereof euery where almost then extant In which cōmon ruine calamity hapning the shrine of this great Saint with numbers of others became sacrilegiously defaced and her sacred Reliques lye since dispersed God knoweth where or how vntill by his omnipotency they shall come to be vnited againe most gloriously raysed For God sayth the same holy Prophet Psal 33. doth conserue all the bones of his seruants and it hath increased I doubt not their ioyes accidentall in heauen to haue had heere on earth for his sake their Reliques by the Churches enemies and haters of true Religion contemptuously abused after due Reuerence yeilded by deuout people vnto them and singular blessings receaued from Almighty God by their powerfull intercession Neither haue moderne Sectaries shewed in any one act more the little Communion which they haue in this world or are likely to haue in the other with the Saintes of Christs Church then in contemning scattering and destroying their Reliques of which in generall S. Ambrose writeth thus Serm. 93. de Sanctis Nazario Celso If thou aske me what I honour in their flesh and bones now dissolued and consumed I honour in the Martyrs flesh the scarres of those woundes which for Christ he susteyned I honour the memory of his vertue still liuing I honour in his ashes the seedes of Eternity I honour the body that taught me to loue Christ and not to feare the cruellest death for him Why should not faithfull soules honour that body which Diuells tremble at c. quod Christum honorauit in gladio quod cum Christo regnabit in caelo that body I say which honored Christ in the sword and which shall reigne with him in Heauen These sayth S. Basill speaking of the 40. Martyrs Reliques are those who protect our Countrey and like strong Towers guard vs from our enemies Wherefore I may vse of such as scattered and destroyed the holy reliques of S. Wenefride and many other Saintes in our Country S. Gregory Nazianzens words in his first Oration against Iulian the Apostata Thou hast not reuerenced the Hoastes slaine for Christ whose bodies yea very drops of their bloud or other small signes of their passions can worke the same effects which their soules themselues can doe to wit such sudaine cures of infirmities and diseases as S. Austin lib. 22. de Ciuitate Dei cap. 8. affirmeth by S. Stephens Reliques as they passed through Afrique towards Rome to haue byn done in his presence which Protestants will as little belieue as they do the miraculous passages of S. Wenefride recounted in this Historie amongst whome there is no one so straunge but the like may be found in other Saintes liues by holy ancient Fathers authentically written and in some of them far more straunge which piously read probably belieued by faithful soules for 1400. yeares since cannot but temerariously be reiected now and contemned by Protestants whose corrupt Iudgment as I regard not in this my translation so I hope good Catholiques will read it with edification and comfort For it may well delight them as it doth me to thinke that we haue anciently had such store of renowned Saintes liuing in our Country as besides this life D. Harpsfeld the English Martyrologe Prudentiall Ballance M. Broughton and other ancienter historians do witnesse though the Names and liues of the greatest part of them are only in the booke of life registred and will in the generall Iudgmēt be gloriously reuealed That S. Wenefride likewise should liue againe after her head cut off and do the things which heere are written of her in her Historie the chiefe blocke which incredulous Readers perhaps will stumble at is no more hard to be belieued then that Lazarus after he had ben dead and stinking in his graue should liue agayne sit at table with Christ and be Bishop of Marsills in France many yeares after And if it be obiected that Christ himselfe did worke that miracle able to do all things I may well answere that he promised his owne power and far greater wonders then himselfe had wrought to be done by his seruants extant now in authenticall Histories as certainely since performed Lastly I intreat my courteous Reader for a Conclusion of this my Preface to note mend with his penne these ensuing errours of my Translation committed in the printing by strangers wholy ignorant of our English tongue Faults escaped in the Printing PAg. 24. lin 7. dele that Pag. 45. lin 9. where read which Pag. 75. lin 1. as read or Pag. 82. lin 9. their read his Pag. 88. lin 5. dele so Pag. 94. lin vlt. his read this Pag. 103. lin 11. dele most Pag. 109. lin 16. saying read said Pag. 119. lin vlt. noble Virginity read Martyrdome for your Virginity Pag. 120. lin 1. dele of your Martyrdome Pag. 121. lin 14. dele he Pag. 128. lin 5. Charity read Clarity Pag. 146. lin 16. in read in a suddaine Pag. 148. lin 14. and to be dele to Pag. 165. lin 3. fall read fell Pag. 173. lin 10. Wales read that Countrey