The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue.

How the holy reliques were carryed to the citty of Conimbria in generall procession, where the king was present, and how they miraculously chose the place where they would rest, and how they transported themselues to diuers places, and of the conuersion of S. Antony of Padua, which by exam∣ple hereof came to passe.

THE XXII. CHAPTER.

ALl thinges being fitly disposed and accommodated, the king & queene, attended with all the nobility, the Clergie and people, went a foote in procession with great deuotion vnto the said re∣liques, with many crosses and banners, in token of the triumphant vi∣ctory of the holy martyrs. Comming to the place where the reliques we∣re, hauing deuoutly saluted them, they caused the mule that carryed them to goe before, that she her selfe might choose her way, as she had alwayes done before. So without the conduct of any personne, she went directly to Conimbria, where she entred into Sampsons street, att this day called the street of the old figtree, and then to the monaste∣ry of sainct Crosse, att which gate she stayed till it was opened, though the intention of the king were to place the said reliques in the great church. The gate of the said monastery being opened, the mule of her selfe entred into the Church, and went directly before the high altare where she kneeled downe, and so remayned, till she was disburthened of the said reliques, each one admiring the mira∣cle wherby the holy martyrs did choose and make knowne, where they would haue their reliques to repose: for which they were all thanckfull vnto God, and there ended the Procession. The king erected a sumptuous chappell, att the place where the mule kneeled downe, and a rich shrine, wherin were putt the greatest part of the said reliques, others in an other shrine in the cloister of the said monastery, the litle that remayned was sent part to the Church of the holy Ghost of Goueau, where there was a Couent of Religious of sainct Francis Order, and an entiere body to the mo∣nastery of sainct Bernard of Loruant, three leagues from Conim∣bria, becausse the Abbesse of that monasterie was sister to the king▪ Now the very day that the reliques were brought into the monastery of S. Crosse, they began there to shine by miracles: for they cured a great multitude of diseased persons there present, and from that time the mi∣racles haue so continued euen to this day, that they deliuered from perill all such as recommended themselues vnto them, vpon which occasion

it is, that so many strange pilgrimes doe frequent that place. The grea∣test gaine of that day wheron the reliques were receaued, was of S. An∣tony of Lisbone, called of Padua, who was then a Canon Reguler of S. Crosse, and as such, in the said procession, gaue praise to God among the rest, and solemnised the arriuall of the holy reliques: for he me∣rited to be inspired of the holy Ghost, who anymated him with a great zeale vnto his honour, in such sort as he resolued to offer his life for the confession of the holy faith by the example of the said mar∣tyrs, whome desiring entierly to imitate, he would begin by the ha∣bitt and rule of sainct Francis, whose true disciples these martyrs had bin.