Miracles wrought by Saint Francis Xaverius and Saint Philip Nerius, taken out of Chapt. 18 and 20. of the fore-mentioned Book.

Upon the Frontiers of Piscaria he raised a Boy, who for many hours together had lain drown'd in a Well. In the Town of Mutan in like manner he raised a∣nother Boy, who dying of a Pestilential Fever, had remained dead four and twenty hours. At Comire he rais'd a third Body, which had lain buriedunder the Earth a Page  14 a whole day together. Near the Promontory of Comori he rais'd a Girl; not far from that place, a certain married Woman. In the Island of Vaccare near Zeilan, the Son of a certain Infidel. At Malaca the Daughter of one who had been late∣ly converted. At Bembari a certain Boy: Another at Comari. At Punical he rai∣sed a Man who had lain dead a whole day. Near Manapar he raised one Antoni Miranda. At Malaca a certain man's Daughter who had been three days buried and overwhelmed with Earth. He restored to Life in like manner the Son of one Mahomet Serangio, who had lain three days under Water; to omit others rai∣sed by him in his Life time.

After his Death he restored almost as many to Life. In the Processes of his Ca∣nonization mention is made of above five and twenty persons raised by him from death to life. He often restored blind men to their sight; dispossessed possessed persons; cured many lying desperate, and given over by the Physicians; healed Lepers; cal∣med tempestuous Seas; preserved Ships from Wrecks; restored the Lame to their Limbs; and recovered men stricken with the Palsie. He foretold infallibly ma∣ny things to come; penetrated mens concealed thoughts; had a certain knowledge of Secrets and things absent. He appeared in divers places far distant at one and the self-same time; he spake several Languages which he had never learned, as readily, congruously, and eloquently as if he had been born and bred among those Nations. And it fell out oftentimes, that at such times as he preached to multitudes of people men of several Nations, at the same time heard him utter their own Language; and with one and the self-same Answer he often satisfied the demands of several Infidels. He was so ravished and transported with the desire and love of God, that he was often and miraculously raised from the ground, with a countenance inflamed, eyes sparkling and fixed upon the Heavens; and being surcharged with Celestial joy, was forced to exclaim, Sat est, Domine! Sat est. By the sign of the Cross he tur∣ned salt Water into fresh, in several Vessels at Sea. Having dipped a brazen Cru∣cifix which he wore about his Neck into the Sea, to appease a Tempest, and by accident lost it, walking the next day upon the shoar, he espied a Sea-Crab mira∣culously bringing him his Crucifix in his claws, which having delivered it, sud∣denly returned back into the Sea, from whence it came.

He ended his life at Sancion, near China, in the year 1552. famous for many Miracles. His Body was found entire long after his death, howbeit it was nei∣ther bowelled nor balmed, but buried in Quick-lime; and it appeared many months after its decease, lively, full of juce and fresh colour, soft and tractable, sending forth an admirable sweet savour, and many times Bleeding, for which he was ho∣noured, and reputed a Saint immediately after his death. It appeareth by the Process of his Canonization, that many dead Bodies were raised by him, after his death; that many Lamps burned before his Body with Water onely put into them, as clearly as if they had been onely filled with Oil; which being oftentimes ex∣tinguished, took fire again of themselves without humane help: that divers were cured by him, or by his Relicks, or Pictures, of Leprosie, Palsie and other in∣curable diseases.

Saint Philip Nerius preserved his Virginity untouched, and he discerned in chaste Page  15 persons the perfume of Chastity, and in others the rankness and stench of Uncha∣stity. He arrived to the Knowledge of many things concealed from him, such as are the most intimate Secrets of mens Hearts. He restored one dead Man to life, in his life time; another after his own decease. He was seen raised from the ground in the time of his Masses.