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A18332	The life of B. Aloysius Gonzaga of the Society of Iesus eldest sonne of Ferdinand Prince of the S.R. Empire, and Marques of Castilion. Written in Latin by the R. Fa. Virgilius Ceparius of the same society. And translated into English by R.S.	Cepari, Virgilio, ca. 1563-1631.; Stanford, Robert, attributed name.; R. S., gent.	1627 (1627)	STC 4912; ESTC S117299	267,919	562

pious affection towards Aloysius For allthough the Priests were wont to be allotted another place of buriall differing from other men notwithstanding before his departure out of this life he made knowne to the Infirmarian that his will was to be buried in the same place which should be assigned to this Blessed young mā after his death Therfore by commaundment from the Superiors it was afterwards done as he desired There are some who recount that Aloysius prophesied that this Father should depart out of this life before him The which came to passe accordingly For he dyed vpon the first day of Iune being Whitsunday-Eue at twelue of the clocke in the night twen ty dayes before Aloysius made his happy end Aloysius his chamber was so farre from the chamber of this Father that he was the length of a whole gallery distant from him and so consequently could by no ordinary meanes haue vnderstāding of his being in danger of death and yet he imagined that thrice that night he saw him The which he related the next morning to the Infirmarian almost in this manner The window being open and he coming according to his custome to see him and asking how he had passed the former night Truly but ill sayd he for after an vnusuall manner I haue bene troubled with dreames or rather visions For three tymes did I seemer to see the good Father Corbinellus perplexed with vehement paine and first I heard him speake vnto me in this sort It is now high ty me my deer● brother to commend me earnestly to God to beseech him that I may with a patient and couragious mynd endure the bitternesse of this grieuous dangerous torment wherewith I am vexed for so much as vnlesse I be he strengthned with his speciall assistance I am diffident how I should behaue my selfe therin Being awaked and supposing it to be a dreame It were better sayd I to my selfe by way of reprehenson for thee to sleepe wherfore driue away these fancies A little after being but newly fallen a sleepe he appeareth agayne vnto me importuning more vehemently then before that I would assist him with my prayers in that his so great extremity which seemed to him allmost intollerable Againe I am roused out of my sleepe agayne I blame my owne restlesse disposition and determine with my selfe to aske leaue the next day to expiate with some pennance this my negligence in fulfilling the cōmaunds of the Phisitian and my Superiours who charged me to endeauour to take my rest But behold after that the third ty me I had entred into a sleepe the same vision appeared vnto me and calleth vpon me in this manner Now now my deere brother I am allmost arriued at the period of this my miserable life Offer vp your prayers to God that he would vouchsafe a happy successe to this my last passage and our of his infinite mercy to blesse me with the immortall glory of the other life There I will not faile to pray in like manner for you That thing did so absolutely be●eaue me of all sleepe that being stroken with the terrours of these representations whilst I often beat vpon them with my cogitation the other parte of the night I was not able to take any manner of rest at all The Infirmarian hearing these discourses dissembled the whole matter shewed no signe of admiratiō called them dreames and fancies of the mind affirmed that Fa. Corbinellus was well concealed his death exhorted him to lay aside all care and dispose himselfe to rest He then replied not so much as one word more vnto him But at another time vpon some occasion giuen he gaue them to vnderstand that he was certainely assured that he was not only dead but that he was euen entred into heauen Wherupon Fa. Pobert Bellarmine asking him what he thought of his soule whether it were detained yet in the fire of purgatory or no Verily he answered confidently that without any delay it passed frō Purgatory By which answere he coniectured that he had it reuealed vnto him from God For wheras he was of his owne nature infinitely considerate in all his speaches and sparing in the affirmation of doubtfull things he wold neuer vnlesse he had bene certified from God haue so clearly assured his Ghostly-Father that he had now passed Purgatory All this time we all besought him with as exquisite reasons as we could that he would pray to almighty God that his life might be enlarged for by that meanes he might come at last to heauen full-fraught with infinite accesse of merits and that he might render more profit to men and principally to the Society But he to them all gaue this one only answere Melius est dissolui better it is to dye Which he said with so great sensible affection of mind and with so great serenity of countenance that it was a sufficient testimony with what affection he desired to be presently transferred to enioy an indissoluble coniunction with God CHAP. XXXI He sendeth vnto his mother two letters in the time of his sicknesse by the which he comforteth her and int●cateth her prayers HE sent in all this time of his sicknesse two letters to his mother In the beginning of the first after that he had passed those first stormes with which she thought that he might haue bene oppressed with the relation where of comforting her at the first exhorting her to the patient enduring of aduersity he addeth this which followeth It is now a moneth since I was in that state that I receaued from God that benefit of his by far the greatest of all other namely that in his grace as confidently I persuaded my selfe I should haue departed this life And I was then fortified with the sacred Viaticum Extreme-vnction When it was the pleasure of God to prolong my time in the meane time leauing me in a remisse feuer to prepare me to death The Phisitians being ignorant what the euent of the matter will be endeauour to procure the health of my body with exquisite remedies But it is my greatest comfort for that I am persuaded that Almighty God doth prepare to giue me far more entire health then the Phisitians are able to giue Therfore in the mean● time that hope maketh me ioyfull that within few moneths it will come to passe that Almighty God will bring me from the land of mortall men to that of the liuing from the society of men liuing vpon the earth to that of the Angels citizens of heauen finally from the behoulding of things terrent and fraile to the sight and contemplation of that good and great God in whome all good is contained The same cogitatiō may be vnto you most illustrious Lady in respect of that great loue which you beare to me and for so much as you desire that which may tend to my felicity an infinite comfort I beseech you to make me partaker of all your prayers and to giue order

that the same may be done by the Sodality of Christian Doctrine that this short time in which I must yet wrastle with the tempestuous sea of this world God by the mediation of his only begotten sonnes merits in like manner by the prayers of his most holy mother and the Blessed Saints Nazarius and Celsus would vouchsafe to drowne all my sinnes in his most sacred bloud which with bitter torment he shed for our sakes as it were in the red sea so that being freed from the feare of all my enemies I may passe into that land promised by God to soe and enioy him euerlastingly The selfe same God comfort you Most honourable Lady Amen He wrote another letter somewhat longer a little before his death when he had now as I shall after declare knowledge from God of the day vpon which he should dye and passe to heauen These are his wordes bidding farewell to his Mother Most illustrious Lady and my most honoured mother in Christ The peace of Christ by with you My prayer is Most Honourable Lady that you may be alwayes partaker of the grace consolation of the Holy Ghost I remained yet in this region of mortality when your letters were deliuered to me But now this is to giue you to vnderstand that I must at last aspire to heauen where I may for euer prayse God in the land of the li●ing which iourney I did of late hope to haue performed before this time but my feu●r truly as I wrote vnto you in my other letter when it seemed most to burne and rage being vpon the suddai●● mittigated it brought me by little and little ouer vnto that Holy day of Christs Ascension into heauen From that time my brest being oppresed with great violence of distillation my feuer was so renewed that I do now by degrees approach 〈◊〉 to those sweet and deere imbracements of my ●●lestiall Father in whose lap I hope to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and euerlasting rest And so the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that were brought thither of me as I also wrote to the Marques do certainely agree But if it be the part of Charity as S. Paul sayth flere cum flentibus gaudere cum gaudentibus Rom. 1● to weepe with them that weepe and reioyce with them that reioyce you must of necessity my most Honourable Mother conceaue most infinite ioy for this that God out of his bounty fauour towards you doth designe me true ioy and security from the least feare of euer loosing the same Verily for I will freely confesse vnto you Most illustrious Lady when I ingulfe my mind in the consideration of that Diuine bounty which is like an immense sea without either shore or bottom it being as it were rauished with the greatnesse therof seemeth vnto me to erre and misinforme me For so much as he in reward of so short and small labour sendeth for me vnto eternall rest as who from his heauenly throne calleth me to that high felicity which I so negligently haue sought promiseth me the fruite of my teares which I so sparingly haue shed Take heed my most Noble Lady and be very carefull that you offer not the least violence to this infinite benignity of God which verily you should do if you should be waile him as dead who liueth in the sight of God and is far more auaileable in recommending your affaires then in this life he was This shall be no long separation We shall meet againe in Heauen be vnited to our sweet Redeemer with all the powers of our soule praysing him for euer singing forth his eternall mercies shall enioy immort all comforts Neither truly do I doubt but that if excluding those respectes which consanguinity suggesteth to our mind we would giue place to fayth and that pure and simple obedience which we owe to God we should freely with an open hād offer that vnto him which is his ow●● And that so much the more willingly by how ●●ch that which is taken from vs is more deare For so we shall gi●●●testimony that we esteeme that nothing is done by God but with great wisedome and for our commodity He taketh from vs but that which he had bent vs before with no other purpose but to conserne it in a place more safe and of more immunity that he may adorne it with those good thinges which euen we would wish vnto our selues I haue said all this for no other end then to comply with that desire of mine which I haue that you most Honourable Lady and all the rest of my family account this my departure as a most acceptable benefit and vouchsafe I beseech you to accompany me with your blessing whilst ●●ferry ouer this litle riuer til I touch at that shore where harboureth all my hope Which so much the more willingly I do for so much as there remaineth nothing vnto me wherby I might more e●idently signify the lo●● and reuerence which as a sonne I owe vnto you my mother Finally thus I conclude begging againe most humbly your blessing From Rome this X. of Iune the yeare of our Lord 1591. Your most Honourable Ladiships most obedient sonne in Christ Aloysius Gonaga C●AP XXXII Of the preparation which Blessed Aloysius made for his death in a rapt he partaketh celestiall ioyes and foretelleth the day of his death IT is now time to declare in how Christian-like and holy a manner B. Aloysius prepared himselfe for that his last passage from earth to Heauen Whilst he continued in this disease which verily was long and as such are wont to be infested with difficult and grieuous dangers he neuer at any time gaue the least signe of a deiected mind either in word or gesture He neuer seemed to take disgust either in the obseruance of the Infirmarian or in any thing else that he vndertooke to doe about him And although in sicknesse a man is more apt to discouer his hidden imperfectiōs then at any other time notwithstanding he alwayes made good his former patience He was euer exactly obedient to his Superiours Phisitians and Infirmarians and how a Religious man should behaue himselfe in sicknesse although that be very troublesome he gaue a very manifest example After he had betaken himselfe to his bed he gaue eare to no other discourses at any tyme but of diuine matters and of a blessed life Therfore neuer any one visited him but to comply with him setting a syde all other discourse hespake of piety And if any forgetting this order interlaced any other speach Aloysius recollecting his mynd would thinke with himselfe of some other matters till such tyme as they fell vpon sacred things agayne For then changing himselfe and returning to discours he made shew not only to be recreated but euē exhilarated Of this his custome this reason he gaue was that allthough he nothing doubted but that it was no way differing from the course of a Religious man to speake in conuersation prudently of indifferent matters for