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The glory of the B. Father S. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Iesus.
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Łęczycki, Mikołaj, 1574-1652.
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wrote to him he did it with reuerence vpon his knees and in his Reliquary he wore the name of S. Ignatius cut out of a letter of his to him as the relique of some great Saint whilst yet he was aliue He suffered himselfe to be guided like a child by S. Ignatius depending wholy of him and euer cherishing in his brest an admirable opinion of his sanctity which vpon all occasions he desired to expresse VVhich words saith S. Chrisostome in the like subiect hom 1. ad populum do sufficiently demonstrate and speake all his vertues for the iudgments of Saints goe not either by fauour or disfauour but are to be held vnquestionable The B. Virgin S. Teresia added much to the glory of S. Ignatius CHAP. XIX IF the glory of the Father be the wise child as holy writ expresseth the B. Virgin S. Teresia that glorious Foundresse of the Disealced Carmelites a woman so famous for her admirable and heroicall vertues who by those eminent degrees of Contemplation arriued to so fast a freindship with Christ renowned for her writings of mysticall Diuinity glorious for her patience and sufferance of labours one so higly esteemed through the Christian world for her reformation of the Carmelytes an elect spouse of Christ who through her vehemency of diuine loue was often surprised with extasies a woman famous for that fiery Cherubins dart piercing her brest one inflamed with an vnquencheable desire and thirst of soules adorned with the flower of pure Virginity glorious ouer the Christian world for her celestiall visions her spirit of prophecy her manifold guift of cures in her life tyme and after this sacred Virgin I say added much to the glory of S. Ignatius as one who acknowledged herselfe a child of his Society making vse of the Fathers of it for her confessions and the whole manage of her spirituall affayres and miraculously came to the knowledge of many things in praise of the Society leauing testimonyes of it both by word and writing and particularly in her Lise written by her selfe by the commaund of a certayne great Diuine of the Order of S. Dominick Out of which Life translated afterwards into Italian printed at Rome in the yeare 1601. and dedicated to Pope Clement the eight by the Arch-Bishop of Auignion I will here relate some passages translated word by word into Latin In the 5. Chapter and 47. page of the said life S. Teresia writeth thus I Remained in this blindnes aboue 17. yeares as I remeÌ„ber til a certaine learned Father of the Order or S. Dominick opened my eyes in some things and they of the Society of Iesus possessed me intyrely with such feares to wâ— that certaine sinnes were not to be esteemed trâ—fles which some ignorant Ghostly Fathers had taught her to be no sinns aggrauating my ill conceaued principles as I will relate hereafter c. In the 23. Chapter and 236. page of the same life S. Teresia writeht thus VVHen the Fathers of the Society of Iesus arriued here to whom I not knowing any of them found my selfe much addicted only because I had vnderstood as well of their insight into matters of Spirit as of their maÌ„ner of Praier but I found not worth in my selfe to discourse with them nor strength enough to obey them c. And againe in the same Chapter page 239. the speaketh thus IT was for my greater good that I came to know and deale with men so holy as they of the Society of Iesus It is here by the way to be noted that one Antony Kerbeke an Augustin Friar in his Latin version of the life of S. Teresia published at MeÌ„ts the yeare 1603. and printed by Iohn Albin hath omitted this almost all things els written by S. Teresia in praise of the Society But what his drift was in it it is hard to iudge And in the 244. page I Was afflicted suspecting my owne misery that they of the houshould should see me deale with persons of such Sanctity as they of the Society I seemed to haue the greater obligation not to become so miserable and to depriue my self of my idle recreations And againe page 246. in the end of the Chapter S. Teresia writeth BLessed be God who gaue me grace howsoeuer vnperfectly to obey my ghostly Fathers who for the most part were those blessed men of the Society of Iesus and my soule afterwards began to perceaue a manifest amendment as now I will relate In the 24. Chapter and 249. page she writeth thus of the Society I Dwelt not farre from them reioysing much that I could haue often communication with them for my only knowing of the holines of their conuersation was the cause of that great proficience I discouered in my soule In the 33. Chapter and 364. page writing of a certaine iourney she made with licence of her Prouinciall I Was much comformed when I vnderstood that in that place there was a House of the Society of Iesus In the 38. Chapter and 421. page she writheth thus of the Society SAint Teresia here in her originall manuscript expresseth the name of the Society and reported the same by word of mouth witnesse Ribera in his life of S. Teresia printed at Rome in the 4. Booke 5. Chapter and 207 page which life the Reuerend Father Friar John a Iesu Maria discalced Carmelite in his abridgement of S. Teresia's life printed at Rome in the yeare 1609. and dedicated to Pope Paul the first stileth a history most worthy to be credited in his 1. Book 1. Chapter and 4. page thus say S. Teresia writeth of the Society I saw admirable things of some Religious persons of a certayne Order and of the whole Order in generall I oftentymes saw them in Heauen with white banners in their hands and at other tymes I had the like visions full of admiration In which respect I hould the said Order in great veneration as one who haue long conuersed with them and perceaue their liues to be conformable to that which Almighty God hath reuealed to me of them The same is to be read in the life of S. Teresia pag. 303. published in Latin by Martin Martinez and printed at Collen by Iohn Kinckius in the yeare 1620. And in the same Chapter in the page 430. of her life S. Teresia writeth thus FInding my selfe thus much afflicted in soule and body in a certaine Church of the Society of Iesus where I was hearing the Masse which one of the Fathers said for a Brother of the Society lately deceased I saw him enter into Heauen with great glory and by a particular fauour accompany the Maiesty of our Lord. In the 39. Chapter and 447 page towards the end BEing saith she in a Church of a certaine Colledge of the Society whilst the Brothers of that Colledge were receauing the B. Sacrament I saw a precious garment or as the Italian translation stileth it Pallio hang ouer their heads and this I saw twice but when other
presence with which he was so taken that immediately he conceaued a sensible hatred of all such things as blind mortall men hould most in esteeme and of those things especially which carry with them any shew of vnlawfull delight so that froÌ„ thence-forward the remembrance of them how deeply soeuer by long vse and custome rooted in his imagination was vtterly extinct in him washed away At other tymes in like manner the Mother of God often shewed her selfe to S. Ignatius but principally whilst he composed the Constitutions of the Society either offering vp her prayers and comforting him with her presence or confirming the Constitutions he wrote of the Society Besides Christ our Sauiour himselfe vouchsafed often to comfort him with his desired presence at Manresa and other places In his iourney to Venice being left behind by his fellow-trauellers in certaine meddowes neare the Riuer Po not being able through weakenes to hould on his iourney with them our Sauiour Christ as he had often done appeared vnto him the next night and hauing exceedingly encouraged him conducted him the direct way to the Towne of Padua first and after wards to Venter In his sea-voyage to Hierusalem our B. Sauiour often appeared to him to his infinite incouragement and conducted him at last to a safe Hauen in Palestine At Hierusalem being reuiled with opprobrious words by a certayne Armenian who laying violent hands vpon him dragged him in an iniurious manner to his Inne in the midst of these affronts he behold our Sauiour present with him accompanying him in his iniuryes to his great contentment As he trauelled to Rome with his two Companions to found the Society he entred into a certaine Church of which there are many standing vpon the high way not far from the Citty to performe some deuotioÌ„s being as he was accustomed rapt into an Extasie and traÌ„sported in Contemplation God the Father appeared to him in a glorious light with his B. sonne bearing his Crosse making shew of the bitter pangs and torments he endured who commending S. Ignatius with his Companions to his Father God the Father when he had graciously receaued them to his protection turning to the Saint with a cherefull browe wouchsafed to vtter these comfortable words Ego vobis Romae propitius ero And this was the cheife cause that after the Confirmation of te Society S. Ignatius imposed vpon it the soueraigne name of Iesus Besides the writers of his life affirme that he had often visions of the Diuine persons sometymes all togeather at other tymes only some one of the alone and of the diuine Essence it selfe and these things especially at the sacrifice of the Masse and at such tyme as being busy with composing the Constitutions of the Society he implored the light and approbation of the diuine Wisdome This appeareth euidently by a large volume of his visions which for piety and memory sake himselfe tooke the paynes to reduce to a methode which visions in him were so admirable and so penetrating the profoundest mysteries of the diuine Essence that the most learned and famous Doctours of mysticall and schole-Diuinity of our age doubt not to professe in their printed books that if that opinion be true which with Saint Thomas and other Fathers of the Church many men follow that Moyses and S. Paul the Apostle euen in this life though for a short tyme beheld perfectly and not in a figure as the Saints in the next life do the diuine Essence and as other moderne writers beleiue of S. Ausien S. Bennet and S Giles Companion to S. Fâ—ancis the like perfect vision of God euen in this life may probably be beleiued to haue been seene by S. Ignatius who hath left behind him of himselfe with his owne hand writing that at such tyme as he wrote the Rules of the Society he often beheld the diuine Essence and Beâ—â—â— And before he had studied being yet vtterly vnlearned he was in so admirable a manner instructed by intellectuall viâ—â—â—s in matters of the Vnity of the Essence and Trinity of the Persons that in that Nonage of his conuersion he was able to compose a Booke of the B. Trinity That famous vision of the holy Ghost is not to be omitted who appeared to S. Ignatius whilst he composed the Constitutions of the Society sometymes in that admirable fashion of fiery flames as heretofore to the Apostles sometymes in other shapes Besides all which it was a thing vsual to this glorious Saint to be comforted with frequent visions of Saints Angels At such tyme as he ministred the Spirituall exercise in Mont Cassino to one Peter Ortizius an Agent of the Emperours praiyng earnestly for the health of B. Hosius his Companion whom he knew to ly grieuously sick he suddainely saw a thing reported to haue hapned to S. Bennet in the same place at the tyme of the decease of German the Bishop the soule of his CoÌ„panion shining wouÌ„drous bright carried vp by Angels enter into Heauen And not long after going one day to the Altar in the very Introite of his Masse imploring the aide of all the Saints a glorious Squadron of Saints appeared before him amoÌ„gst whom he perfectly saw B. Hosius in a most glorious manner With which two visions he was so ouerioyed that for many dayes after he could not containe himselfe from weeping When Father Iohn Codurius one of the first Fathers lay in daunger of his life with a violent sicknes S. Ignatius intending to offer vp the holy Sacrifice of the Masse for him at S. Peters in Moâ—te Aureâ— in his iourney thither being almost halfe way ouer the bridge â—aâ—iculus commonly knowen now by the name of Poâ—â—e Sixâ—â— he cast vp and fixed his eyes vpon the heauens and behold the soule of F. Iohn Codurius gloriously carried vp amongst the Quires of Angels turning afterwards to F Baptista Viola his CoÌ„panion let vs quot he returne home for our Codurius is deceased At an other tyme whilst he was writing the Rules of the Society he behold the Saints in their glory in so Maiesticall a fashion as he confessed was not to be expressed And whilst he was busy with the same Rules he often heard not with the eares of his vndestanding only but with the eares of his body most harmonious musicke from Heauen with which he was enflamed with diuine loue and melted into teares The yeare after his conuersion being present at Masse in the Dominicans Church at the eleuation of the sacred Host he perfectly saw that vnder that figure true God and man was really contained At such tyme as hee composed the Constitutions of his Society hauing one day consecrated the holy Host and offered to Almighty God the Rules of his Society God the Father appeared most graciously vnto him insinuating by some mysticall signification that it would be a thing pleasing to his diuine Maiesty that the Mother of God should offer vp her prayers vnto him for him Wherevpon