PIETRO GIANNONE. 



and the confbmt emiffion of blood from them, which 

 lafted for upwards of two years, did not give up the 

 ghoft.'* Thus is this miracle defer ibed in the book of 

 die Conformities of St. Francis. In full confirmation 

 whereof it cites the infallible teftimony of a devil caft 

 out at Ravenna. Compelled by the exorcifm of a 

 priefr, he faid through the mouth of a woman called 

 Xandefe : There are two marked with nails in hea- 

 ven, Chrift and the choleric Francis. Chrifl, knowing 

 that he fhould give this choleric man the bull of his 

 wound-marks, would not that he mould receive a bull 

 from the pope, fabricated by human hands. No lefs 

 infallible are the teftimonies of the popes, fome of 

 whom, as eye-witnefTes, confirmed it by bulls. Of 

 Gregory IX. it is faid in the above-mentioned book of 

 Conformities, p. 234. De fancl irate B. Francifci, et 

 de ejus ftigmatibus plures bullas fecit, in quibus aflerit 

 B. Francifcum ftigmata domini Jefu veraciter in fuo 

 corpore impreffa a Chrifto habuiffe, et hoc tenendum 

 rnandat fldelibus et credendum, et fub nota haerefis pu- 

 niendum oppolitum fapientem. Of pope Alexander it 

 fays : Dominus Alexander IV. qui ftigmata vidit pro- 

 priis oculis B. Francifci, ipfo B. Francifco adhuc vi- 

 vente, qui in bulla lie loquitur : ftigmata in ejufdem 

 fancli corpore, dum adhuc vitali fpiritu foveretur, 

 viderunt oculi fideliter intuente-s et certiffimi coi> 

 treclantes digiti palpaverunt. 



II. I no longer doubt in the leaft concerning the 

 miracles which the Francifcan rope has wrought on 

 thofe who have worn it about their loins. For what 

 cannot be brought to pafs through the interceffion of 

 a faint, who has his abode in heaven, not among the 



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