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A19758	The historie, life, and miracle, extasies and revelations of the blessed virgin, sister Ioane, of the crosse, of the third order of our holy Father S. Francis. Composed by the Reuerend Father, brother Anthonie of Aca, diffinitor of the prouince of the conception, and chroinckler [sic] of the Order aforesaid. And translated out of Spanish into English, by a father of the same order	Daza, Antonio.; Bell, James, d. 1643.	1625 (1625)	STC 6185; ESTC S115421	144,091	328

Ioane absolutely as before it was Sancta Ioanna that is the Saint Ioane or the holie Ioane ou● now that this was mended it seemed goo● to take it away altogether for the greater satisfaction of those who in this matter do speak with too much rigour without condemning for al this the common language of the people who call this seruant of God the Saint Ioane nor that of so many graue authors which giue her this title and euen the Lord Bishop of Mantua in his chronicle calleth her sanctissima who all speake with much decencie and proprietie as is proued in the fourth note The Bishop of Mantua of the Seraphical Religion Bishop of laen lib. of the veneration of reliques Barespo 4. P. Chronic. N Pereclo lib. of our B. Lady of Atocha Villegas in the flos Sanctorum Fr. Peter de Salazar and others The second sorte of censurers are the scrupulous although well meaning and the first thing wherat they stumble is in that there are related in this booke a great multitude of miracles without being approued by the ordinarie conforme to the decree of the holy coūcel of Trent and the truth is that this decire for prouing miracles and reliques is not new but a confirmation of many others most ancient by the which if these scrupulous would passe their eyes with a very litle obseruance that they might make for the vnderstanding of them they shold be verie farr from giuing such censure For there is verie great difference betweene approning miracles reliques and relating them in a historie the first is reserued to Superiours accordinge to the qualitie of the ende for which the approbation is intended and the second is graunted to all as many as haue beene borne in the world seing that since the beginning thereof haue beene related and written diuers miraculous cases without that any one haue more obligation for the truth of the history then to relate the thinges as he knoweth them and euery one giueth him the credit that accordinge to prudence seemeth good vnto him and to whom this shall be w●nting he shall giue it him that will so that nether the historiagrapher nor th● h●● o●e shall therfore lose or gaine more cred●● then before they had And Aristotle saith 1. Ethic. lib. 3. cap. 7. from whom Cicero tooke it that all thinges must not be handled with such subtilitie that a mathematicall demonstration be made of them but that the arguments wherwith that shall be proued which is related must be according to the subiect wherof is treated and the end wherfore it is treated In such manner as to relate by worde or writing a miracle which God did by the intercession of any Saints it is not more necessarie then to haue he●rd it of persons worthy of credit But to publish with solemnitie this miracle and to celebrate it with festiuitie in thankesgiuing or to take it for argument of the sanctitie of that Saint for to canonize him or beatifie him c. the approbation of a superior is necessarie to whom according to the law it belongeth according to the end for the which it is pretended to be approued so also to worship and hold in reuerence a relique which is giuen to any one and to beleeue with pietie that it is true sufficeth the authority of a person worthy of credit who affirmeth that he found it in such a place or church worshipped and had for such But if a church or monasterie which shold much esteeme a relique had in this manner as we might say a head of the eleuen thousand Virgins wold recite of them on their day with a double office and not of the Saint which the Kalendar doth assigne as is granted in the rubriques of the breuiarie it wold be necessarie to haue approbation of that relique because one thing it is to worship and esteeme it in particular and another to approue it for publique ministerie whereof the said decree of the sacred coūcell teacheth and the rest touching this matter In consequence wherof to the obiection it is answered First that the miracles which are written in bookes which are infinite as in the cronicles of religions and other innumerable tracts not for this are approued and published authorizedly which is that which the law prohibteth commanding that it be done with authority of the ordinary that which this booke conteineth is the same with infinite others ancient and moderne where is recounted that which in euery parte happened and euery one may giue it the credit that he will Secondly that which is written of this seruant of God is the same which of her haue written so graue authors as haue bene related and if in their histories this inconuenience was not found there is no cause wherefore it should be found in this booke Thirdly and principally with which it seemeth there remayneth no kinde of doubt in this matter is that being so many bookes which speake of miracles in few or it may be in none shall be found the warinesse that is in this for speaking in the context of the historie of some miraculous thing euery one is related as it was found and as it is for it is saide such a miracle such a one recounted and such a one passed before such and such persons and of such a miracle was information made by commission of the ordinary and is in the archiue of the councell of the most illustrious of Toledo and of such an one made information only the Iustice of the people and of such an one the Father Generall of the order with such witnesses and of such an one is knowen no more then what the partie sayeth or is found by tradition And this beinge so cleare what hath the approbation which the holy councell of Trent commandeth to be made for the publishing of a new miracle to doe with this history written in imitation of as many authors as haue written liues of Saints from the time that the church was founded and from the same councell vnto this day and with more warinesse then the rest when they only relate the case and the author of this cronicle addeth that which hath beene saide The second obiection which they oppose is the greatnesse of the fauours which our Lord is shewen to haue done to this seruant of God the which are such and so great as with great reason may cause not only much admiration but some doubte in beleeuing them And I answere that the admiration in the cōsideration of the workes of God is for to acknowledge the greatnesse of his clemency and liberality and for it to giue him thankes consideraui opera tua c. said the Prophet of this admiration God draweth light to all the virtues for mirabilia opera tua anima mea cognoscet nimis For faith is confirmed and charitie is enkindled more for to loue such a Lord and so liberall and hope is many waies nourished by hoping that God will worke

a little of the bread which the mother Abbesse had left vneaten and as soone as she had put it into her mouth the ague left her and shee remayned whole and sound Another Religious had one arme very dangerous soare with a great wound and asking of her good Angell that he would obtaine of our Sauiour Iesus Christ true health for that her sicke sister he answeared her This nonne hath a greater euill then you thinck for it is Saint Martiales fire and such as will not heale vnlesse it be by miracle The fire beganne to manifest it self in her arme and shee in such earnest prosecuted her prayer that shee obtained of God health for the sicke To a little child sick of the euill of the hart she gaue health making vpon it the signe of the Crosse And to the confessor of the conuent being sick of a phrenesie she gaue health by blessing his meat And like vnto these shee did other miracles in the cure of the sicke and in bringing to light many things lost which were commended vnto her prayers THE X. CHAPTER Of the beades which our Lord blessed at the instance of the B. Ioane of the Crosse 1 BEfore I treate of the graces and virtues grāted to the beades so celebrated through the world by the name of the beades of S. Ioane it hath seemed to me conuenient to aduertise first that being this miracle is so singular and which hath so much excited the deuotion of the faithfull not only in Spaine but also in other partes very remote the diuell hath procured by meanes of his ministers to mingle with the truth of the miracles which could not be denied because they were so apparāt many superstitiōs of which some little summaries were full which went in print into the handes of the ignorant people which it was necessarie to prohibit as a thing many wayes pernicious 2. The second that there is great difference betweene the virtues which wee experience in things blessed or thinges of deuotion as are Agnus Deies Reliques Images c. and those which we call indulgences for this second presupposeth iurisdiction in him that granteth them and for to publish them certitude in the concession In consequence wherof although it be holden for a tradition very ancient that some Popes and in especiall Gregorie the 13. of happy memorie granted many indulgences to these beades and this might be without bulle by only oracle of liuely voice at the iustance of the generalls and of others deuoted to Religion as hath beene done in many other cases of which the compendiums of the indulgences granted to the religious at full yet because this was not knowen with that claritie which was conuenient I did not treat of these indulgences in particular in the first impression of this booke nor yet did I hold it for incōuenient to vse the name of indulgences considering that some of the said summaries which went abroade were falle and without ground And yet because that sufficed not I haue determined in this impression not to vse the name of indulgences or any other which may presuppose iurisdiction vntill it be made apparent by the Apostolicall grant And so I vse only the name of virtues and graces which our Lord granted to these beades as hath beene manifested by many miracles without denying or affirming that the diuine maiestie or any of the Popes haue granted many indulgences to the said beades For in matter of indulgences that cannot be published which is not proued by the indulte neither dare I deny that which tradition so commonly receiued ●oldeth and whi●h we read in the originalls of the life of this seruant of God 3. The third that th●se graces and virtues may not be contemned for that they are not alwayes exp●●ienced because they are fauours of God which he granteth to the faithfull according to the good ●aith and deuotion of euery one or according to the necessitie of the occasiō or according as his maiestie of his clemencie is pleased to impart yea i● is cleer that it should be a great impietie to ●ffirme that the Agnus Deies and other things whi●h are blest haue not the virtues which are granted them in the benedictions of the Church because they are not alwayes experienced 4. This being supposed the historie ensueth of the saide beads approued not only by tradition so ancient but by many informations iuridically made some by the cōmission of the most graue prelates others in their owne persons and others by testimonie of persons very worthy of credit of all which mention is made in relating the said miracles And being the fauours which our Lord did to his blessed seruant sister Ioane were so manifest the Religious of the said conuent desiring to help themselues by the intercession of their B. Mother prayed her that she wold obtaine of our Lord by meanes of her good Angell that he wold blesse their Rosaries grant them some graces for them and for the soules of Purgatorie because in those times there were very fewe hallowed beades The seruant of God out of her charitie who neuer knewe how to deny any thing they asked her for Gods sak● did promise to treat therof with her Angell keeper and hauing communicated it with him and obtained of God what shee desired she willed the nonnes that against a certain day they shold get together all the Rosaries bea●●es they had for our Lord of his goodnes would blesse them and had cōmāded that the Angell shold bring thē vp to heauen from whence he shold bring thē back againe blessed She spake not this to dea● people for the nonnes hearing her sought in the house and in all places of the coūtrie about all the Rosaries decades and beades they could all which they brought her against the day appointed and being they were so many and so different hence it commeth that there is so much difference of them some of amber and iett others of wood others of corall and of glasse c. the B. sister Ioane when she sawe amas●ed together so many beades she wild them to be put in a little chest which I haue seene sometimes is kept in the conuent wi●h great veneration euen from that time vnto this day and one of the nonnes to locke it and to keepe the key to herself 5. This done she ●e●her selfe to prayer the religious seing her rapt held for certaine that that was the happie houre and instant when the holy Angell shold carrie the Rosaries vp to heauen there to blesse them And so carried away with a kinde of curiositie they came to the religious that kept the key of the coffer and opening it they sawe that it was emptie and that there were no beades at all therin whence they held for certaine that which they had imagined and so locking it againe as it was before they retyred from thence that she returning from her rapt might not see them awaiting with great cōfort

Lord gaue wisdome and grace to a religious which could not read nor write called Sister Marie Euangelist to write a great booke intituled of the Mariners carde which conteineth the sermons the glorious Ioane preached in one yeare two other religious helping her called sister Catharine of S. Francis and sister Catharine of the martyres wherof there is tradition publique voice and fame in the monasterie of the Crosse and some ancient religious which liue at this day knewe the said sister Marie Euangelist and sweare that they know her hand and heard her speake it many times 7. This booke of the Carde conteineth seauentie and two sermons diuided into as many chapters written in seuenhundred thre leaues in folio and is kept in the conuent as a relique of great esteeme and with great reason all what soeuer is in it being miraculous as is also it that a woman should haue written it without knowing how to read or write should beare in memorie all whatsoeuer the blessed preacher had saide in such sort that making an end to heare the sermon she wrote the same some of them contayning twelue and some twentie sheetes of paper full of Theologie and authorities of sacred scripture And only in one yeare taking part of that of 1508. and part of 1509. this blessed woman wrote three hundred sixtie and fiue sheetes the nomber that this booke conteineth of a very legible and plaine letter although nowe the time and the wormes haue much endamaged it The sermons which this seruant of God preached in this yeare as they are found originally in the booke of the Carde are these that followe 8. Of the Incarnation of the Natiuitie of the Circumcision of the Epiphanie of the flight into Egypt Excellencies of the holy Baptisme Reprehensions and counsells of the Purification of our B. Lady of the creation of Adam of Septuagesima of holy and true doctrines Of the Chaire of Saint Peter of the parable of the Gospell of the sower of our Redeemer lost in Hierusalem of his fast and tentation in the desert How sinners aske of God fauoures of Palme sonday of tenebre Wednesday of Mandy thursday of Good friday of the misteries of the most holy Resurrection of the good Pastor of the Crosse of the Gospell which is song on the sonday before the Ascension of the holy Ascension of our Lord of the comming of the holy Ghost of the most holy Trinitie of Corpus Christi of the holy Catholicke faith of the excellencie of the friday of the dayes of the weeke of the Visitation of our B. Lady of saint Iohn Baptist of saint Laurence of saint Peter and S. Paule of S. Marie Magdalen of the holy Crosse of S. Anne of the euill steward of the Transfiguration of saint Laurence martyr of our Sauiours weeping ouer Hierusalem of S. Clare of the Assumption of our B. Lady of S. Bartholomew of the Decollation of S. Iohn Baptist of the Feastes which Nathaniel made to our Lord of the Natiuitie of our B. Lady of the Exaltation of the Crosse How our Redemer raised the sonne of the widdowe of the Conuersion of S. Matthew of celestiall figures doctrines of reprehensions for our sinnes of S. Michaell and of all the Angells of our glorious Father S. Francis of the Feastes which they make to our redemer on the fridayes of celestiall Feastes A declaration of the Gospell of the virgins of saint Luke of S. Simon and Iude of all Saints of the paines of hell of the comming of Antichrist of the Dedication of the Church of the Presentation of our B. Lady of the most pure Conceptiō of our B. Lady of Reprehensions and of Aduent all with great misteries And the booke of these sermons is not of little authoritie for the continuall tradition with which it hath beene conserued since the life time of the seruant of our Lord with admiration and approbation of so many learned Prelates Generalls and Prouincialls who haue visited that holy conuent for the space of eightie yeares and aboue And when the tradition of any thing goeth cōtinued from the day in which it happened by a whole communitie it hath and is of much authoritie THE XVI CHAPTER How our Lord gaue to the Blessed Ioane the feeling of his sacred woundes and how the blessed Apostle S. Peter healed her of her deafenes 1 IN thirteene yeares which our Lord so much fauoured his holy espouse he wrought in her things very misterious and diuine And because some times God is iealous of the soules which he m●ch loueth and will haue them all for himselfe he made his louing espouse deafe for that she much diuerted herselfe in the consideration of creatures and receiued some consolation and delight in hearing the little birdes to sing and chirp Wherefore not willing she should employ her loue on any other thing but on himselfe and in token of the loue his maiestie bore her he wrought in her a soueraigne maruaill seene and experiented of very many and especially of all the religious of the conuent which freer Alonso de Mena her confessor freer Alonso de Tarracena his companion and other religious graue Fathers of the order all sawe it and made experience of it the case was this Our Lord willing to enrich honour his beloued espouse gaue her for pretious Iewells the paines and signes of his most sacred woundes the historie and miraculous successe wherof passed in this manner 2. In the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred twentie and foure the virgin being fourtie and three yeares of age one yeare after the concession of the beades it happened that on Good friday in the morning being in prayer set in Crosse wise she was rapte her armes so stretched out and stiffe as also all the members of her body as if it had beene a Crucifix of stone in such sort that no humane force could stir her frō that holy composture although it was sometimes attēpted The nōnes seing her rapte in so differēt a posture to that which at other times shee was wont to be and that the rapte continued longe they carried her vnto her cell and went all to the quire because it was time to beginne the diuine office Being in the office while the passion was read the virgin entred into the quire shedding many teares The nonnes seeing her come and leaning to the walles who for that she could not goe nor keepe herselfe vpon her feete she went barefooted as shee was accustomed and because she could not set them to the ground she went only vpon her heeles and toes with so much difficultie as if she had set her eyes where she set her feet The nonnes seing this asked her the reason of it by signes they made her for being deafe she vnderstood not otherwise how she came in that māner who made thē answere that she could not goe because her feet grieued her so much Let vs see them saide the nonne that wrote