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.

The cure of a sore that was fiue and twentie yeares old.

ANthonie vande•• Velde keeper and of∣ficer of the forest of So••gne: dwel∣ling in the village of Terhulp three duitch

myles ••••ō Bruxdles was attainted with a quartain ague in the yeare 1575. which continued about three or fower yeares, whereby he became so weak and leane that he was but onely skinne and bones, Moreouer his left leg became so great that he was not able to walk thereon: and this hauing continued long, and fynding no help although he had applied many things thereunto by the adui••e and coun∣sel of some apothecaries & others, vpon a day as he went vnto a certaine surgeon in hope to be holpen by him, who inten∣ding to giue some ease to the patiēt, with a corrisiue medicin made a little hole in the sayd leg, whereby some water and moisture began to yssue out of the same, but nothing els: and after a whyle sun∣drie other yssues began to grow in diuers partes thereof, somtymes on the one syde somtyme on the other syde of that which was made by the barber. In somuch that in short tyme al these yssues gatherīg into one, they made a sore of the greatnes & compas of an egge: and this vpon the shinne aboue the ankle, beeing very red, and burning ho••e, and so ful of corrup∣tion that many thought the very bone

had perished and decayed. And as the patient indured intollerable payne, he caused diuers other remedies to be ap∣plied thereunto, but all in vaine and to no purpose. He also went in pilgrimage to diuers deuout places, and yet obtai∣ned he no ease at all thereby. At the last in the yeare 1603. in the moneth of De∣cember, in the beginning of Aduent hauing heard some talk of the miracles which by the intercession of the glorious Virgin Marie were wrought at Montaigu, the sayd Anthonie much desyred to get some peece of the wood of the Oake wherein the miraculous picture had wount to haue been set: and hauing by the meanes of a certain frend obtained a peece, & withall a siluer medall of our Ladie of the same place, he put them both into cold water, and there with he washed his sore for the space of nyne dayes, adding some few prayers vnto God, and to the glo∣rious Virgin Marie. And from the very tyme that he began to washe his leg, he perceiued that the sore (which he sustai∣ned for fyue-and-twentie yeares toge∣ther, with much paine weakenes and extenuation of his bodie) began to close

vp, and euery day to become lesser and lesser, in such sorte that when the nyne dayes were expired, it was quyte shut vp and healed, and since that tyme, he hath remayned in good plight, not feeling therein any swelling or payne, declaring that from that tyme he hath found his bodie in good disposition and health, that he seemeth to himself to haue become yonger then he was before. All which that here hath been sayd he auouched vn∣der his solemne othe before the Magi∣strates of the Citie of Bruxelles, vpon the xxj^th. of October 1604. And vpon the same day appeared also before the sayd Magi∣strates Mistris Gertrude Ianotea•• wyfe of VVrbert Valle, dwelling at the Inne cal∣led du Ken••ebutin in the same Citie, and with her Bertr and vanden Velde brother and Anthonette Baston wyfe of the sayd Anthonie vanden Velde, who vnder the lyke othes affirmed that they had often seen the sayd sore, the which was very foule and vg∣ly to behold: to witt, the sayd Mistris Gertrude some eight yeares ago, and the∣sayd Anthonette euer since it first began. As also they had seen the same sore after he had washed it, and they had found it

whole and cured as hath been sayd: as also at that very tyme the sayd Anthonie shewed it to the magistrates them selues, who found it to be intiere and whole, according to their attestation made he∣reof, sealed with the seale of the sayd Ci∣tie, and signed P. Numan Secretarie, and dated as aboue.

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