Note. The observation made upon this by the Bollandists is"( Very probably Humbertus diligently examined into that miracle, since he handed it down to posterity more minutely than the other writers."

: Accidit ibidem cum vir Dei in oratione usque ad noctis medium vigilasset, ut egressus de ecclesia, ad lumen candela in capite dor

It happened there also, that this man of God, who had watched till the middle of the night in prayer, departing from the church, wrote by candlelight sit-mitorii sedens scriberet. Et ecce ting at the head of his dormitory. And behold the devil appearing in the form of a monkey, began strutting about before him making ridiculous gestures with grimaces. Then the saint beckoned to him to stand still, giving him a lighted candle to hold before him; and he, although he held it, continued to make his grimaces. Meanwhile the candle was finished, and began to burn the monkey's fingers, and he began to lament as if tortured by the flame, whereas he who burns in the flames of hell, ought not to fear a bodily flame. But the saint beckoned to him to stand still. Why should I say more? He stood there until the whole of his forefinger was burnt down to the socket, crying out more and more loudly from the torture. Thus the man of God, strong in faith, having taken him in, who sought to impose upon him, gave him a sharp blow with a cane, which he always carried with him, saying, Depart, thou wicked man; and the blow sounded as if he had struck a dry bladder full of wind.

dæmon in specie simiæ apparens, coepit gestus illusorios cum torsione vultus coram ipso deambulans exercere. Tunc sanctus ei manu innuit, ut fixus staret, dans ei candelam, ut ante se teneret, accensam: qui tenens nihilominus gestus cum irrisione vultus faciebat. Intereà finitur candela, cæpitque ardere digitus simiæ, et quasi præ dolore torquendo se lamentari, cum tamen gehennæ iguibus ardens flammam non timeat corporalem. Sanctus autem ei, ut staret adhuc, innuit. Quid plura? Tamdiù stans permansit, donec digitus indicialis usque ad juncturam manûs, totus crematus est, et magis ac magis se torquendo lugebat. Sic in fide fortis homo Dei volenti sibi illudere illudens, ferulâ quam semper secum portabat, percussit eum fortiter dicens, Recede nequam, insonuitque percussio ac si percussisset utrem siccum plenum vento. Tunc in parietem proximum se projiciens nusquam comparuit, fotoremque post se relinquens, quis fuerit, patefecit. Verè meritò inter angelicas po

Upon this, casting himself against the nearest wall, he disappeared, leaving behind him a stench, which discovered who he was. Truly this man is to be extolled among the angelic powers, who so powerfully confounds and reproves diabolical wickedness.

Sister Cæcilia, a girl aged seventeen, first received the habit of the order from the hands of the holy father Dominick. She beheld with her eyes, and heard with her ears, and faithfully narrated the things which are related.

testates coronandus est, qui tam potenter diabolicas confundit et reprimit pravitates.

Soror Cæcilia, decem ac sep+ tem annorum puella, prima de sancti patris Dominici manu ha bitum ordinis accepit. Hæc ea, quæ memorata sunt, oculis suis perspexit, et auribus audivit, et fideliter enarravit.

In their

Even the Bollandists are a little startled at the two last miracles, which after all are not more absurd than the former ones. annotations they thus express themselves.

Annotations.

It is certainly extraordinary, that these wonders should be related only by Sister Cæcilia, which so many others are said to have witnessed. For this reason Melchior Canus and others do not think them worthy of equal credit.

Annotata.

Certe mirum est, a sola Sorore Cæcilia memorari hæc portenta, quibus tamen tot alii testes adfuisse dicuntur. Quare Melchior Canus aliique his non æqualem fidem adhibent.

Friar Theodoric of Appoldia, however, a writer of the Order of Preachers, who compiled the Acta Ampliora of St. Dominick, evidently believed them. And the last miracle is related by the Roman Amalist Bzovius, in his Life of St. Dominick.

Note. All the above miracles are extracted from the "Acta Sanctorum," the most authentic and comprehensive edition of the lives of the saints, that Roman Catholics possess. There is prefixed, however, to each volume, a warning that the writers were historians liable to error. The volume, whence Dominick's miracles are extracted, was collected and illustrated by four Jesuit priests, John Baptist Sollerius, John Pinnius, William Cuper, Peter Boschius, and the approbation of the ordinary is as follows:

Approbation of the Ordinary.

This great work of the acts of

Approbatio Ordinarii.

Ad Augustum mensem promo

tum est magnum illud opus de actis sanctorum, cujus primum tomum in lucem producunt scriptores iidem P. P. Johannes Baptista Sollerius, Johannes Pinnius, Guilielmus Cuperus, et Petrus Boschius, Societatis Jesu presbyteri, eâ quâ priores diligentiâ elaboratum, cum tractatû prælininari de patriarchis Constantinopolitanis, in quibus nihil occur rit, quod non consonet fidei et bonis moribus, aut eruditorum expectationi non respondeat, Ita testor Antverpiæ 25 Julii 1733.

the saints is brought down to the month of August, of which the said fathers, John Baptist Sollerius, John Pinnius, William Cuper, and Peter Boschius, priests of the Society of Jesus, have published the first volume, compiled with the same diligence as the former ones, together with a preliminary treatise on the patriarchs of Constantinople, in which writings, there is nothing which is not consonant to faith or good morals, or which does not answer the expectation of the learned. I thus testify at Ant--F. G. Ullens, presb. can. werp, July 25, 1735.-F. G. schol. offic. et lib. censor. Ullens, priest, &c., and Censor of verpia. books, Antwerp.

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The reader will recollect, when he peruses the blasphemy which follows, that this revelation is approved of by the Jesuit editors; that it is recorded by the pen of the Master general of the Dominicans, and that the ordinary, F. G. Ulleus, priest and censor of books at Antwerp, declares that there is nothing in this volume that is not consonant to faith and good morals.