Miracles lately vvrought by the intercession of the glorious Virgin Marie, at Mont-aigu, nere vnto Siché in Brabant Gathered out of the publik instruments, and informations taken thereof. By authoritie of the Lord Archbishop of Maclin. Translated out of the French copie into English by M. Robert Chambers priest, and confessor of the English religious dames in the citie of Bruxelles.

How a mayd was cured of an incurable accident.

MAgdal•••• •••••• Horen a mayd of one & fiftie yeares old, dwelling at Br••x∣elles;

in the yeare 1600. vpon a certaine day by stretching her bodie so ouer strai∣ned her self, that she was inwardly hurt very grieuously, and there hanged out of her bodie a peece of flesh as big (so farr as she could iudge it) as ones fist, in such sorte that she was constrained to we are a trusse or band made purposely to ho••d i•• in. Together with this she had a vehemēt continuall paine, which sometymes so af∣flicted her, that she could scarce goe, or so much as sit. Physitions call this kynd of euil Prociden••ia vt••r•• and they esteeme it incu••able, or at least-wyse yery hard to be cu••ed. Thi she endured about some three yeares, vntil the moneth of October in the yeare 1603. But as people spake much of the miracles which were wrought at Montaigu by the intercession of the glorious Virgin Marie, she was mo∣ued thereby to goe thither, in hope and confidence that the blessed Mother of God would pray for her: & so she went by wagon to Montaigu in the forsayd mo∣neth of October, in the cōpanie of Mistris Agatha Reygers with whome she some∣tymes dwelled with Mistris Margares de Morade Mistris Ioane Iacops & some others▪

and beeing come to the sayd mountaine not without great paine, that night they did in the same place their deuotions, and hauing lodged afterwards in Sichen, the next morning they went on foot to the Chappel of out Ladie, where again they prayed, hard masse, & comunicated, at which very tyme the sayd Magdalen recea∣ued so great ease and amendment, that she found her self deliuered of her old paines and griefes, & altogether altered, in somuch as beeing returned to Bruxelles she could goe and walk whether soeuer she pleased without any impediment or grief, and without any band or trusse, feeling the sayd peece of flesh to be who∣ly retired within her bodie. Vpon the xviij^th^ of Nouēber in the same yeare 1603 she went again vnto Montaigu, with an other companie, there to render thancks to God and his holy mother, and offered vp there one of her bands which she was accustomed to weare, and although in this last iorney shee had gon fiue duitche myles on foot, yet for all that she felt no paine or appearance of her former grief, beeing whole & sound as shee is at this present. All the aforesayd things this

Magdalen declared and auouched solēnly vnder her othe, before the Magistrates of Bruxelles vpon the nyne and twentith of March in the yeare 1604. Vpon which day the foresayd Mistris Agatha Reygers and Mistris Margarit de Merode making also their appearance before the sayd Magi∣strates, declared and affirmed that they knew very wel that this Magdalen had in∣dured this accidēt for three yeares space, or there about, & how that after she had made the first voyage to Montaigu she re∣mained perfectly whole, & in good dis∣position of her bodie, which wel they might perceiue and know, forsomuch as the sayd Magdalen came often to their howses, because she had been seruant vnto Mistris Agatha, as hath been sayd. And vpō the seuenth of April following, Anne vā Suick Beghine dwelling in Brux∣elles, and there for xxv. yeares practising the arte of surgerie appeared before the∣sayd magistrates, who vnder the like othe, declared and assured that she had in cure this Magdalen, but she could not help her: shewing moreouer how at the same tyme (through the assistance of God) she had healed many wounderful diseases

and accidents, but she held that (which this Magdalen had) hardly euer to be cured by any naturall meanes or work of man. And al this that hath been sayd, is to be seen by an instrument and Act which passed before the Magistrates of Bruxelles as wel vpon the foresayd nyne & twētith of March, as vpon the seuenth of April 1604, subscribed P. Numan Secretarie, and signed with the seale of the sayd Citie.