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1875.] Human Levitation. 53 
Forty Levitated Persons, Canontsed or Beatified. 
Name, Country, and Condition. Date of Life. Acta San&t. Vol. Pages. 
Andrew Salus, Scythian Slave 880— 946 May Vi. 16* 
Luke of Soterium, Greek Monk.. 8g0— 946 Feb. Il, 85 
Stephen I., King of Hungary 978—1038 Sept. I. 541 
Ladislaus I., Ditto (his grandson) 1041—1096 June We 318 
Christina, Flemish Nun .. I150—1220 July V. 656 
St. Dominic, Italian Preacher 1170—1221 Aug. Ue 405, 573 
Lutgard, Belgian Nun .. 1182—1246 June WING ss) 
Agnes of Bohemia, Princess 1205—1281 March I. 522 
Humiliana of Florence, Widow .. 1219g—1246 May LVin =) 306 
Jutta, Prussian Widow Hermit ... 1215—1264 May VII. 606 
St. Bonaventure, Italian Cardinal 1221—1274 July S27, 
St. Thomas Aquinas, Italian Friar 1227—1274 March I. 670-1 
Ambrose Sansedonius, Itln. Priest 1220—1287 March III. 192 
Peter Armengol, Spanish Priest... 1238—1304 Sept. I. 334 
St. Albert, Sicilian Priest . 1240—1306 Aug. mae 236 
Princess Margaret of Hungary .. 1242—1270 Jan. Ife go4 
Robert of Salentum, Italian Abbot 1273—1341 July IV. 503 
Agnes of Mt. Politian, ItIn. Abbess 1274—1317 April II. 794 
Bartholus of Vado, Italian Hermit 1300 June II. 1007 
Princess Elizabeth of Hungary .. 1297—1338 May II. 126 
Catharine Columbina, Sp. Abbess 1387 July Vile 352 
St. Vincent Ferrer, Sp. Missionary 1359—141g April If 497 
Coleta of Ghent, Flemish Abbess 1381—1447 March I. 559, 576 
Jeremy of Panormo, Sicilian Friar 1381—1452 March I. 207 
St. Antonine, Archbp. of Florence 138g—1459 May I. 335 
St. Francis of Paola, Missionary... 1440—1507 April I. T7; 
Osanna of Mantua, Italian Nun.. 1450—1505 June III. 703, 705 
Bartholomew of Anghiera, Friar.. 1510 March II. 665 
Columba of Rieti, Italian Nun 1468—1501 May V. 332*-4*, 360” 
Thomas, Archbishop of Valencia.. 1487—1555 Sept V. 832, g69 
St. Ignatius Loyola, Sp. Soldier 149t—1556 July Vili 432 
Peter of Alcantara, Spanish Friar 149g—1562 Odc. VIII. 672, 673, 678 
St. Philip Neri, Italian Friar I515—1595 May VI. 590 
Salvator de Horta, Spanish Friar 1520—1567 March II. 679-80 
St. Luis Bertrand, Sp. Missionary 1526—1581 O¢. MWe 407, 483 
St. Theresa, Spanish Abbess I515—1582 Oc. VII 399 
John a Cruce, Spanish Priest 1542—1591 Oc. VII. 239 
J. B. Piscator, Roman Professor.. 1586 June IV. 976 
Joseph of Cupertino, Italian Friar’ 1603—1663 Sept.  V. 1020-2 
Bonaventure of Potenza, ItIn. Friar 1651—1711 Oc. XII. 154, 157-9 
As the lives of all these are pretty fully recorded, we 
have the means of drawing several generalisations. 
It is 
plain that all displayed the qualities most distinctive of the 
present ‘‘ spirit-mediums,” and many were accompanied from 
childhood by some of the same phenomena, though I find 
nothing resembling the ‘“‘raps.” The hereditary nature of 
their gifts is shown by the Hungarian royal family pros 
ducing five examples; and it is also notable, on this head, 
that out of forty there should not be one of British or French 
birth, although some of the most remarkable spent much of 
their lives in France, and all other Christian races seem 
represented. A feature absolutely common to the whole 
forty is great asceticism. Only four married, and all were 
