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devout Brother Maximus, being then parifli 

 prieft, left his parifli and became a Gray 

 Friar; and was of fuch great fandlity that 

 he wrought many miracles both while he 

 lived and in his death, and his body lies at 

 Murro. The aforefaid Brother Welcome, 

 tarrying once alone at Trave Bonanti, to 

 watch and wait upon a Leper, being com- 

 manded of the Prelate to depart thence 

 and go to another Convent which was 

 fifteen miles away, being loath to leave 

 that Leper, with great ardor of brotherly 

 love took him and put him on his back, 

 and bore him from dawn of day even until 

 the rifing of the fun all that fpace of fifteen 

 miles, unto that fame Convent whither he 

 was fent, which was called Mount Sancino; 

 which diftance, had he been an eagle, he 

 could not fo fwiftly have flown in fo brief a 

 fpace : and great were the awe and admira- 

 tion at this divine miracle throughout all 

 the land. Another was Brother Peter of 

 Monticello, which was feen of Brother 

 Servetus of Urbino (he being then Prior 

 of the ancient Convent of Ancona), raifed 

 up bodily above the earth fome five, ay, 

 fix cubits, even unto the feet of Chrift 

 crucified within the Church before whofe 



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