Gerland the Knight

ON B. GERLAND THE KNIGHT OF JERUSALEM, A TEMPLAR OR HOSPITALLER? AT CALTAGIRONE IN THE SYRACUSAN DIOCESE OF SICILY.

13TH CENTURY

PRELIMINARY COMMENTARY.

About the place and acts of the Translation, and the ancient and present-day cult of the sacred Body.

Gerland, Knight of the Order of S. John of Jerusalem at Caltagirone in Sicily (B.)

D. P.

Sicily counts altogether nine Calatas, all placed on hills; of which which one was named by Cicero, declaiming against Verres, and by Pliny and Antoninus Galata, Calata of Hiero a most ancient city, is not easy to determine; but easy against Fazello to decide, that they, whatever the reason of the name, were not by the Saracens so called, granted that some of them perhaps he fortified. Among them in appearance and amplitude more noble is that one which Caltagirone the common people call, for distinction from the others, whose names are formed by adding the names of Belota, Biani, Busamari, Amari, Nixetta, Sibetta, Simi and Votoris. That one which I said, of the Syracusan diocese is, midway between Syracuse and Agrigentum on the road, the work probably of King Hiero; the Syracusan either the First, who flourished in the year of Rome founded 276; glories in the body of B. Gerland, or the Second, who in the year of the same City 529 died, both for the friendship of the Romans celebrated, the latter also for the study of good arts, while the former rather exalted himself with military glory. But the city itself, which among the eight Royal cities of the Syracusan diocese holds the third place, not so much by that its antiquity, and other splendid things many boasts itself, as that in the most ancient of S. James and at the same time one of the four Parochial churches, it possesses the body of B. Gerland of Germany or (as others call him) John of Poland, Knight of Jerusalem— perhaps by proper name John, by surname Gerland called, and by homeland indeed a Pole, but by appellation more generic attributed to Germany. His Head in a silver case is enclosed, says Rochus Pirrus, and of the Finding from the revelation of S. Constantine on June 18, of the Translation on the 19th day of the same is made a celebrated memory.

[2] Of his death, not only the day, but the year and century are unknown; nor is it sufficiently established whether to the Templars or to the Hospitallers of the Knights of Jerusalem he is to be ascribed; whether he is to be ascribed to the Templars or Hospitallers is doubted much less by what virtues especially he shone. Our Octavius Cajetanus, in tome 2 on the Lives of the Sicilian Saints, with the Acts of the Finding and of the Miracles following it, from the Caltagirone archive produced, among the Animadversions thus reasons: It has been doubted by me, whether B. Gerland was a Templar knight, or a Hospitaller. This is certain, that the church of S. Mary (in which he lay buried) and the fields between Caltagirone and Piazza, of the Order of the Templars existed; whence to the church, field and river the name from the Temple, "Tenebio," today corruptly called. The Templars being extinguished, about the year 1310, their goods the Roman Pontiff Clement V, to the Knights of S. John the Hospitallers of Jerusalem gave. But in what year did B. Gerland depart from life? If before the year 1310 (until which the Templars held the place in which the body was found) certainly a Templar he was; [the first opinion is favored by the place which was theirs 17 years before the finding of the body,] in which age the church of S. Mary and the field by the Templars was possessed. But if after the year 1350 he died, a Hospitaller he was. Although most think, that a Templar he was, because it is not probable, that Gerland departed from life within that space of years, which intervene from the suppression of the Templars to his Finding: inasmuch as in so short an interval of time there would have survived among the Caltagironians the memory of the Blessed man, and of his life and sepulchre; nor within years 17 would it utterly have become obsolete. The revelation however of the body of B. Gerland, by D. Constantine made, as of a thing unknown seems to have been, which from many years in the memory of men was not. But these things by no means prevail much: for the revelation aforesaid, is not of an unknown man and sepulchre, but of an unknown innocence of the man. For the man was known, in whatever place he was buried; but to the Caltagironians hidden were the man's merits, and the sanctity of his life, which God, D. Constantine disclosing, openly made known willed. There favors the Hospitallers of Jerusalem an ancient among the Caltagironians of B. Gerland tablet, in which he is depicted, with a white Cross at the breast, in the manner of the Knights of D. John.

[3] But these are not older than the year 1580. But this is not very ancient, inasmuch as the very one which to be looked at and considered the page turned sets forth, found among the Images of the Saints and Blessed of the sacred Order of S. John of Jerusalem, re-struck by Francis Truglio, with compendia of Lives from the Histories part 1 and 2 of James Bosio. For the Cross's expressed form, such as today is in use, as Bosio himself acknowledges, pointed with eight points, much differs from the ancient use, of forming the Cross wont with obtuse angles, as is to be seen in the twin effigy, ancient and new, of B. Ubaldesca of Pisa, at the day May 28. Light therefore is this also an argument, especially since from Bosio it is established to us, that when questioned about it in the year 1616 the Elders of the city answered only, that that tablet they had seen in the church of S. James placed for thirty-five years, that is about 1580. The knot however proposed by Cajetanus in some way to me seems to solve the same Bosio, And Bosio says he flourished in the year 1244, when he judges that B. Gerland died indeed before the finding of the body eighty-four years, and so about 1244, 66 years before the extinction of the Templars; entirely he would solve it if equally he taught either the place of the Temple to have passed from the Templars to the Hospitallers more quickly by purchase or exchange, or of the burial in another's ground given to the Blessed himself a suitable reason rendered. Now while neither he does, a stronger presumption always for the Templars will stand, whose place it was; and I will suspect those to whom afterward the body was revealed, which for the Templars much avails. to have kept silent in the Acts to be described the true title of his Profession, although to themselves not unknown; because it, on account of the then evil fame of the Templars, was an abomination among the common people.

[4] As to what pertains to the cult, the same Cajetanus continues in the Animadversions and says, that on the feast of the Translation day a Mass formerly of the Common of a Confessor not Pontiff was chanted; the Relics of his head through the sacred church of D. James, in which the body is kept, were led; in the same church is the image of B. Gerland, A more solemn cult from of old with miracles painted around. Moreover to B. Gerland public honors longer by the Caltagironians were paid; but to them put an interdict about the year nearly 1590 John Horoscus, Bishop of Syracuse: who when Caltagirone, which in the Syracusan diocese is, he visited, the feast of the Blessed man's day to be celebrated forbade, until the miracles legitimately proved, and by the authority of the Church sworn were demonstrated. about 1590 it is abrogated, Namely except those only were found by decree of the Bailiff, Judges, and Sworn Fathers of the City of Caltagirone. For which cause, as just now I related, John Bishop of Syracuse the feast of B. Gerland's day to be performed forbade. About to permit probably, because he seemed to have been introduced without the authority of a Bishop; if to see it had befallen him the Instrument, which to the archive of the Church of Agrigentum searching Cajetanus afterward into his hand came, by which of two Bishops Thomas of Syracuse and Philip of Agrigentum by the authority taken sworn witnesses are of two miracles.

[5] After these words thus Cajetanus proceeds. A copy of that Instrument with me I have, and it was requested in the year of the Lord's Incarnation 1331, on the 22nd day of the month of October, of the 15th Indiction. Furthermore the miracles, in the town of Leocata of the Agrigentan Diocese excerpted by this instrument, but other things the Acts of the year 1331 prove. are those which happened to James of Naso, and to the son of Marcantius of Laurentius. And it is credible, that Thomas, Bishop of Syracuse, who the miracles of B. Gerland sworn to be taken in another's Diocese took care, much more in his own the same to be done commanded; but perhaps the Acts are lost, and therefore to John Horoscus the Bishop's notice did not come, through which would have ceased the defect of Episcopal authority by him required. Furthermore to the Caltagironian Acts subscribed also were read these verses, according to the custom of that age woven in Leonine style, and some of the living notice presenting.

O how Gerland marvelous is to be reckoned, a holy German, of divine things a friend For at his tomb the weeping, with infirm mind atoning, Who pious from his tender years a merciful one while he was, a worshipper of the happy God and zealous for the Mother of God. All of their diseases healed returned. Now he was found, fragrant though retained in the earth, He is by the Lord's gift bestowed on Caltagirone.

[6] I asked that to me the very book of the Caltagironian Acts be transcribed: which while I awaited, it pleased from the above-praised Bosio to prepare for the press a historical Synopsis of those Notices, Which while they are awaited, which he indeed from the year 1602 to collect began in order to a repeated edition of his Jerusalem History, but not before the year 1621 published. From this edition first Bosio himself took the images and lives of the Saints, and as his other works all probably also at Rome he caused to be struck not long after: which then the very plates Francis Truglio having got at Palermo in Sicily to be re-struck gave, and inscribed them to Fr. Charles Aldobrandini, Commander and of the sacred Order itself there Treasurer, in the year 1632 ending. In Italian written that History was, the Synopsis from Bosio is prefixed. nor yet into Latin rendered, that I at least know. The office therefore of interpreter here I will perform: apt is for this Eclogue great light to bring forth either to the Original Acts which I await, or at least to the compendium of the same found in Cajetanus: who Bosio or Truglio could not use, inasmuch as departed from life in the year 1620 on the 8th day of March; worthy whose effigy at Rome by the command of superiors sculpted may be looked at, with an inscription by which by birth, learning, and holy manners conspicuous he is proclaimed; as is read in the Library of our Society.

HISTORICAL SYNOPSIS

From the Italian of Bosio in Truglio.

Gerland, Knight of the Order of S. John of Jerusalem at Caltagirone in Sicily (B.)

FROM THE ITALIAN OF J. BOSIO.

[1] About 1242 About the year of salvation acquired one thousand two hundred and forty-second, flourished in great opinion of Sanctity, in the island of Sicily, a noble Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of S. John of Jerusalem, Fr. John of Poland, or (as others write) Gerland of Germany. Who thither, in Sicily flourishing B. Gerland as by probable reasoning is gathered, from the Order's Master and the Jerusalem Convent, to inspect and govern the possessions of the Order there situated; or perhaps of his own accord thither having gone in the company of Frederick II the Emperor then King of the island, was wont for the most part to dwell in the city of Caltagirone: where serving God with sincere affection, under the obedience of Superiors, with examples of wondrous sanctity, as a true soldier of Christ he shone. and there holily dead, For protecting widows, defending orphans, raising up the oppressed, consoling the afflicted, helping the needy, under the exterior habit of a splendid Knight he wore next to his body a rough hair-shirt; and his very own body he macerated with most severe disciplines, rigid abstinence, long and frequent fasting, and assiduous and fervent prayer. In this manner a life plainly Angelic leading upon the earth, he impressed on those citizens' minds a firm esteem of his rare virtue: and finally of his human pilgrimage the end most fortunate he obtained.

[2] His soul carried into the heavens, to the rewards of his Christian virtues to receive; his body, shone with miracles. with the inmost feeling of those peoples and tears, especially of the poor and needy, was buried around the city itself: where through a long series of years it pleased the Most High to render testimony to his sanctity, by healing infirmities many of those coming faithfully to his sepulchre. But through the calamities public of war and pestilence, and of other human miseries, and revolutions of government in the aforesaid Island, of all which not the least part the city of Caltagirone sustained, The Body given to oblivion, is revealed, into oblivion went the venerable place of the burial; until after eighty- four years from the aforesaid death, it pleased God, for the common solace of that people, who to this Saint most devout always had been, his body to draw forth into light. For a certain Saint Constantine, appearing to James of Calatasimi, dwelling at Caltagirone, to him revealed that the body of that most holy Knight lay buried in the church of S. Mary, from the Temple surnamed, outside the said city, which church now destroyed lies; showing him precisely the place itself of the burial.

[3] This when he had revealed to certain of his friends, together all they went to the said S. Mary's church: and sweetly fragrant is dug up in the year 1327. and digging the ground in that place which James indicated, indeed they found a chest, within which those sacred Relics rested, whence soon a most sweet fragrance arose, through the whole church diffused. That thing happened on June 18, in the year 1327. There ran to such a famed report of such a finding all the city's people; and by mandate of the Sworn-men by decree of the Council and Magistrate, with the utmost reverence and honor translated the new treasure was to the glorious church of S. James, the Patron and Protector of that place. And here it pleased God to the honor of his name and praise by the intercession of that Saint the old miracles to renew; for as many sick, contracted and feeble as thither approached, in a very wondrous manner were cured; those especially, who with living faith their hurt body's parts or ill-affected anointed with wine, Once it was translated into the city the miracles increase. in which the washed Relics had been. So many miracles those were, that the Magistrate and Sworn-men of Caltagirone, lest oblivion also should creep upon them, took care for a juridical examination to be instituted. Hence of witnesses above ninety-five heard and examined the depositions, which consigned are found in a codex, which with public faith is kept in the cabinet or chest of the Privileges of the city.

[4] An authentic transcript of that Manuscript, subscribed by the hand of Master Notary Francis Fide, and sealed with the seal of the Community, A transcript of the Process formed about these things was sent to the Most Serene Grand Master Fr. Aloysius de Wignacourt: who exceedingly desiring to be preserved the memories of the Knights his religious, of special fortitude, virtue and sanctity famed by praise, when was to be re-struck the first part of the Histories of this sacred Religion, recently by me amplified and augmented; transmitted to the Author not only took care to obtain and to me to be transmitted the aforesaid transcript: but also, lest it could in any way be doubted whether the Saint aforesaid, everywhere named B. Gerland of Germany truly was a Knight of that Religion; he committed to Fr. Don Joseph de Inga, a Knight of Caltagirone, that informations juridical there about that matter duly to be confected he should ask. He did obediently what he was commanded, and through a memorial of the Court of the sworn-men offered supplicated to be done what the Master asked.

[5] And so by mandate of the Worshipful D. James de Claromonte, one of the abovesaid Sworn-men, on the 21st day of July in the year 1616 there were in the Court abovesaid in form and Juridically examined nine witnesses, of the elder, more noble, and in the year 1616 other witnesses heard, and chief Caltagironians; who all concordantly and conformably deposed and made amplest credence, that for thirty-five years back in the parochial church of the glorious S. James the Apostle and Patron of the city was held depicted the image of B. Gerland of Germany, about an image painted 34 years before, in the habit of a Hospitaller. by the greater part of the witnesses called Gerland of Poland, Knight of the sacred Religion of Jerusalem, now of Malta, at whose image's neck and over the mantle was painted the sign of a white Cross, of the same form and figure, in which today it bear the Knights of the aforesaid Religion: and that in the same image is seen the Saint with a sword girt: and that from that time in the said church and at the altar of his image with much devotion was wont yearly the feast to be celebrated before a most frequent people in the month of June in memory of the finding of his sacred Relics. and votive offerings hung to it. Affirming moreover that around the aforesaid image were hung many miracles painted, as done through the Saint; unanimously the same depose each of the aforesaid to be true and to them certain, as witnesses of sight.

[6] The first who communicated to me the notice of this Saint Gerland of Poland or of Germany, insisting that of him mention I should make in this my history, His outline sent to the Author. was the Commander Fr. Jucundus Accarigius of Siena, Secretary of the Chamber of accounts and common treasury of the same sacred Religion, a Knight of great merits, prudence and fortitude; who when he was Treasurer of the Religion at Leocata in Sicily, having received from the natives a summary report of the sanctity and of the miracles of B. Gerland; by zeal as was fitting great led, for the honorable mention of him in the Histories of his Order to be procured; such as in fact from me he obtained in the recent edition of the first part of them with new study amplified and illustrated; where also his effigy to be expressed I took care, altogether such as above you see; and that there might be had about him all that certitude which history requires, he insisted with the Master of the Order, that by his authority interposed might be done as much as above I said was done.

[7] Afterward by the Knight Fr. Alexander Benci, then Commander at Caltagirone, but now of the S. Sepulchre at Florence in his homeland, was sent to me an authentic instrument, There had also in the year 1331 been taken certain miracles, confected at Leocata in the year 1331 whence it appears that by express mandate through letters patent of Fr. Philip Bishop of Agrigentum to Rusticus Antelmi, Priest and Chaplain of S. Mary of Monte Leocata; and at the instance of Peter Bishop of Syracuse, were verified some miracles of B. Fr. Gerland of Germany or Poland through the examination and depositions of several witnesses: and from the same instrument it is proved that already from about three hundred years before this Fr. Gerland of Germany or Poland had been named Blessed. and witnesses heard in the year 1619. Finally the same Commander of the S. Sepulchre Fr. Alexander Benci sent me an authentic attestation of five witnesses qualified, who before the Court of the Sworn-men examined on the 24th day of October 1619 with an oath affirmed, again by them seen in the church of S. James the Parochial the painted image of B. Gerland, girt with a sword and in his cloak bearing a Cross, with eight points notable, such as today in use to the Order is. And the same noble Caltagironian men assert, that the festivity of B. Gerland himself was wont to be kept with such great concourse of people, that it was one of the chief in the whole year among them solemnities.

ANNOTATIONS OF D. P.

Thus then perhaps some, at least Sicilians, numbered the years of Christ; others four years more numbering; so that it must be noted by these, as soon will be demonstrated, the year 1331: and thus the miracles which Cajetanus found at Agrigentum noted on October 22, happened within the fourth from the finding month.

These things thus deduced I was about to give from Octavius Cajetanus the Finding and miracles of B. Gerland if the originals of the Caltagironians were not obtained; when these I received through our P. Conrad Janning in the month of July last from Rome sent, with his letter the authors of the benefit thus praising.

If many, to our Fathers, inhabiting the College of Caltagirone, were equal in promoting the glory of the Saints of their homeland; somewhat more truthful would be this our work (insofar as indeed its truthfulness depends on the informations, which are submitted to us) and less costly to the authors. I wrote not long ago to the Reverend Father Rector of the College aforesaid, then to me not even by name known, Francis Falseca, asking, that the Acts of the Finding and miracles of B. Gerland, which with style changed and interpolated in the second tome of the Sicilian Saints to be read gave P. Octavius Cajetanus; he for us to be described would take care word for word from the original, which made in the year 1327, carefully is kept in the archive of the city of Caltagirone. Nor were more things needed, than that the Father Rector should commit the care of that matter to the Reverend P. Francis Aprilis, in the same college of sacred Theology Professor, and of the sacred inquisition for the censure of books. He indeed without delay the Most Illustrious Senate of the city convened: asked the favor to be made him of extracting from the archive the said Acts, and of describing them: and obtained both; and performed it accurately, even more than I had asked. For besides his own testimony affirming, the copy with the original to agree; he took care to be added also the public testimony of the same thing with the seal of the city most gratefully of Caltagirone: and the Reverend Father Rector for the expenses, in the aforesaid made, preferred to await compensation from the Blessed one, for whom chiefly they were made; than from us those to be refunded to himself. I send to Your Reverence with these the very Acts, now nearly ready for the press, with some observations added, partly suggested by P. Aprilis, partly others.

MIRACLES OF S. GERLAND

Consigned by Public authority in the first half-year after the Finding From the original Manuscript of the City.

Gerland, Knight of the Order of S. John of Jerusalem at Caltagirone in Sicily (B.)

BHL Number: 3450

FROM THE MANUSCRIPT.

CHAPTER I.

Miracles wrought through the month of June.

[1] The miracles, which the pious and merciful Lord our Jesus Christ for his mercy's sake to the persons written below to do and to work deigned, B. Gerland having been found through revelation, by the spirit and merits of Blessed Gerland of Germany; whose relics through S. Constantius to James of Caltagirone, inhabitant of this land of Caltagirone, were revealed, and in the sepulchre of the Church of S. Mary of the Temple by the said James were found on the 18th of the present month of June of this 14th, indiction, 1327, which in the church of S. James of Caltagirone were afterward honorably placed, demonstrated and proved in the presence of the Bailiff, the sworn judges and very many public and other persons of the aforesaid land, in the same Church being present: many miracles are done at his invocation. and of all these sufficiently fully it is established, and the subscribed series declares.

[2] Lofredus of Aydono, inhabitant of the land aforesaid of Caltagirone under oath said, that he himself suffered in the shin a certain infirmity, which is called the gout, to which by the physicians a cure could not be applied, on the 21st of the said month of June to the aforesaid Church of S. James went, There are cured on June 21 an unmedicable paralysis, where the aforesaid Body was placed: and washing himself the shin with the wine, with which the said Body had been washed, immediately he was to his former health restored: of which things fully it was established.

[3] Perloysia, daughter of Burgius of Ardizono, inhabitant of the land of Caltagirone, under the same oath said that she herself suffered paralysis, now it is seven years, and from it so contracted, and oppressed she was, that with her feet to walk she could not, and another of 7 years, nay scarcely was she carried by the hands of others and through all the joints of her body with knots of pain was held bound. Carried to the Body aforesaid, having devotion in the saint aforesaid, which from the first she had had, she received health: and of this it was established through her own oath and that of her parents.

[4] Jacobina, Wife of William of Luchiano of Caltagirone, under the same oath said, that Perrotius, her son a year old, suffering weakness in his arm, on account of which with the said arm he could do nothing, a useless arm, nor even the arm itself move; carried by the same mother of his to the Body aforesaid, strength in the arm aforesaid resumed his former, and so from it whole he was made: and of this it was established through the oath of a legitimate number.

[5] Bonagratia, Wife of Raynaldus of Murro, under the same oath said, that she suffering in her right shin the gout from which with grave pain she languished, a paralysis of the shin, and having recourse to the aforesaid Body, of the aforesaid suffering was freed: of which things it is established.

[6] Bella, Wife of Severinus of Severino, under oath said, that she having rheum in the right arm, another arm, washing herself the arm itself with the wine aforesaid, of that infirmity was freed: of which things fully it was established.

[7] James Gallicius and Alexandra, spouses, inhabitants of the land of Caltagirone, under the same oath said, that they having a daughter of three years, and another incurable paralysis, suffering a certain incurable infirmity, which is called the gout in diverse parts of her body, from which an assiduous pain her body youthful, delicate, and tender afflicted; bringing her to the Body aforesaid, and washing her with the said wine, immediately that their daughter from the aforesaid infirmity was freed: of which things fully it was established.

[8] Clara, wife of the late Constantius Scaranus, and Bonagratia of Nicholas Grasso, of Caltagirone, the rheum of two women, under the same oath said, that they suffering an immoderate infirmity, which is called rheum, by whose suffering they were so held, that their molars to them seemed to be torn out; and taking of the wine, with which the said Body had been washed, they were restored to their former health: of which things fully it was established.

[9] Manella a woman, under the same oath said, that she having a son of one month, excessive pain in diverse parts of his body suffering, a boy variously tormented, a vow she vowed for that son of hers to the said Saint; and offering to exhibit in honor of the Saint aforesaid as much weight of wax, as the body of the said boy weighed; on the 21st of the said month of June the said boy from the aforesaid pain was freed: of which things sufficiently fully it was established.

[10] Princissa, wife of Troxellus of Portis, of Caltagirone under oath said, that she suffering rheum in the right arm and having the edge of the eyes or the pupil, darkness suffering, the rheum of one, on the 21st of the said month of June having recourse to the Body aforesaid, and washing herself the arm aforesaid with the said wine, from the aforesaid rheum was freed, of her eyes also being well, and vanishing forthwith the darkness aforesaid, of which things fully it was established.

[11] Bartholomew of Gruttabassa, under the same oath said that he having rheum in the shin running down as far as the sole of the feet, and of another on June 22, for a long time firmly could not walk: and on the 22nd of the said month of June to the said Relics with devotion betaking himself, and to the same Saint pouring out pious prayers in the lord, of the aforesaid infirmity was freed: of which things fully it was established.

[12] Muscata, a woman wife of Ventorinus of Bonagratia, the paralytic arm of one inhabitant of the land of Heraclea and the same Ventorinus her husband, under oath said, that they having a certain son, who is named Marchisius, of the age of ten years or thereabouts who from eight years back suffered in the left arm a certain infirmity, on account of which he could not close his fist, nor that hand raise, except as far as the left jaw; and it being disclosed to them about the finding of the said holy Body, they betook themselves to the said Body, with them their said son piously and devoutly leading: and prostrating themselves before the said Saint's sepulchre, they began from him with tears to beseech suffrage: and from a certain member of the said Relics the aforesaid arm of the said boy being touched, the boy himself of his body received the wished health making use of that Hand as one whole: of which things fully it was established.

[13] Realis a woman, wife of Nicholas Capodicasa of Heraclea, and of another under the same oath said, that she having her son of the age of five years, who from two years back suffered in the right arm a certain infirmity, on account of which he could not close his fist, nor that hand raise, except as far as the right Jaw; it being disclosed to her about the finding of the Body, with devotion she betook herself to the said holy Body, her said son leading to the said Relics: and from a certain member of the said Body the aforesaid arm of the said boy being touched, the boy himself of the infirmity aforesaid forthwith recovered; of which things fully it was established.

[14] Alamanna of Novello, Wife of Verardus of Presbyterus, and of a third; inhabitant of the land of Heraclea, under the same oath said, that she having a certain son of the age of six years (now it is four years) an infirmity in the right arm and in the side of the right shin suffering, on account of which with the said arm and shin nothing could he do, but with grave pain, nay with graver punishment squalid, emaciated, and as though lifeless he stood; it being disclosed to her about the finding of the said Body, she led her son to the holy Body aforesaid, and from a certain member of the said Body, the aforesaid arm and side of the shin of the said boy being touched, the boy himself, which from the first he had had, health received: of which things fully it is established.

[15] James Gambinus under the same oath said, on June 25 a boy deprived of the use of his members, that John his son, from the time of his nativity until the 25th day of the said month of June, was in his members so feeble and weak that walk he could not; but in the manner of a serpent he crept and by panting and suffering grievously was held. And when he heard the Miracles of the said Saint, he carried his said son to the said Body; and the said son being washed with the wine aforesaid and the boy himself kissing the Relics of the said Saint, the boy himself leaping up stood and walked, all the crowd looking on, with astonishment attentive, and the Lord praising: of which things fully it was established.

[16] Andreas of Cara Mercerra of Caltagirone, suffering a certain infirmity in the right hand (now it is twelve years) on account of which with the said hand he could do nothing, a twisted hand, nay it twisted he held; betaking himself with devotion to the aforesaid Relics, that which in that hand (now it is ten years) the health he had lost, immediately he received: and of these things fully it was established.

[17] James Lombardellus, inhabitant of the Hamlet of Odogrillus, under the same oath said, that he from the knees downward was so bent that he could not walk, powerless to go, but in bed for a long space of time lay sick, and afterward as though was made whole. And from the Monday the 24th day of the month of June the said infirmity coming upon him, walk he could not, and in bed lay; and having devotion to the said Saint, he was carried from the aforesaid Hamlet of Odogrillus on horseback upon a certain animal, to the Relics aforesaid, from the desire of his mind by a vow proposing to approach. And as he descended from the said animal near the said Church, where is the Body aforesaid, that which he had lost he recovered, his health; for with many seeing he walked; and of this it was established through the oath of very many witnesses.

[18] Joanna, wife of Francis Scapillatus, inhabitant of the Hamlet of S. Basil of Caltagirone, under the same oath said, on June 29 a paralysis of the whole body that she with a dire paralysis of sickness was held, so that now for a long time with no office to human uses she functioned, on every part as good as dead, scarcely with a thin breath she palpitated: to whom when no one any solace could give; on the second-to-last of the said Month of June upon a certain animal to the Body aforesaid with affection of heart for the foot's office that to the Relics of the said Saint she be carried she approached: to which when she had come and had touched, from the touch of the aforesaid Relics there began little by little each of her members to be vivified, until with steps firmed, the people witnessing, she rose, and walked; and so in those members which from the first she had lost, health she received.

[19] Antony of Nazara, inhabitant of the land of Piazza, under oath said, that he having his son, Severinus by name, who, (now it is half a year and more) was so by gouty pain contracted and shaken, gout, that he could not walk, unless to a staff for support he clung with both hands bent; he carried therefore upon a certain animal his said son to the said Body, and taking the said boy of the wine aforesaid and the aforesaid Relics kissing, whole was made, and without any support by many was seen with his own feet to walk: and that he had the aforesaid infirmity, it was established through many witnesses.

[21] Perronus of Cantelmo, inhabitant of Lentini, under oath said; that he Perronus, hearing lost, after he rose from sleep (now it is nine days) the faculty of hearing lost. And when first he himself had heard of the Miracles of the said Saint, on the second-to-last of the said Month of June he betook himself to the said Body; and kissing the Relics of it, and taking of the wine aforesaid himself recovered his hearing: of which things fully it was established.

[22] Flos, wife of Roger of Martorano, inhabitant of the land of Piazza, and Bartolinus her son, under the same oath said, a bent boy, that the said Bartolinus from the feast of Easter of the Lord's Resurrection last past, was so much in the knees bent, that from one place he could not move himself; and on the second-to-last of the month of June the aforesaid Bartolinus was carried to the said Body; and kissing the Relics of the said Saint, health he received: and that such an infirmity he suffered it was established through witnesses of a legitimate number, and of the said recovery of health, also sufficiently fully it was established.

[23] John of Scannavino of Caltagirone, under oath said, a twisted hand, that he having his right hand feeble and twisted from the time of his childhood, from which nothing to do could he, nor with it anything carry; betaking himself to the said Body, and from the hand the Relics of the said Saint being touched, and washing himself the hand with the wine aforesaid immediately whole he was made: of which things fully it was established.

[24] Inglisia, wife of Andreas Chlamidarius of Caltagirone, under oath said, a hernia, that she had her son a little one, who had burst in one of his genitals, in which grievously he suffered. And carried with devotion to the Relics of the said Saint, and washed with the wine aforesaid whole he was made, of which things fully it is established.

[25] Francia, daughter of Nicholas Brunus, inhabitant of the land of Bizini, suffering an infirmity in the left hip, a hemiplegic, running down as far as the foot, from which she could not walk, now it is two years, and more; carried upon a certain animal to the said Body: and taking of the wine aforesaid leaping up she stood, and walked: and of the aforesaid infirmity and liberation fully it was established.

[26] Placentia a woman, wife of Philip of Renda, under oath said, feeble in the whole body, that now it is two years, that she was in body feeble, so that she could not proceed unless with another's hand helped by support. And carried to the aforesaid Body having taken of the wine aforesaid and the Relics of the said Body kissed, entirely health she received: of which things fully it was established.

[27] Bonacurtius of Bucagrasa, who in the members of his body was contracted and shaken, contracted, from a long time back; and carried to the said Saint, drinking of the wine aforesaid and the aforesaid Relics kissing, whole and unharmed was made: of which things fully it was established.

[28] A certain son of Marcus of Hyppolitus of Caltagirone, blind, from a certain infirmity coming upon him the light lost. Carried to the Body aforesaid he was washed in the eyes with the wine aforesaid and from those eyes, the Relics of the said Saint being touched, sight received and saw; and of these things fully it was established.

[29] Receputa a woman, wife of Vivianus of Venice, an injured shin, inhabitant of the land of Piazza, under oath said, that when certain oxen were dragging a certain tree through the street and road, in which dwells the said Receputa, by chance it happened by the force of the said oxen dragging the said wood, that it was dragged crookedly. And while the said Vivianus being in the street, and road aforesaid wished to avoid the peril, which to him could come from the dragging of the wood aforesaid, before that peril he fled, it happened his shin in the middle of a certain gate and the said wood so strongly to be pressed and hurt, that in that shin a very great swelling came, and the said Vivianus in that shin a grave suffering sustained. And when after these things through physicians several in that shin to the aforesaid Vivianus no remedy could be applied; the aforesaid Receputa for the said husband of hers vowed to the Saint aforesaid that the same Saint would deign by the power of the Lord her said husband from the aforesaid suffering to free, and she herself would betake herself to the Body of the Saint aforesaid. And the vow aforesaid made before the said Receputa rendered the said vow, the said Vivianus was freed altogether of that shin itself, vanishing the suffering aforesaid.

[30] Joannuccius, formerly servant of Lord Bonalbergus of Scornavacca, inhabitant of the land of Heraclea, under the same oath said, hunchbacked from a fall, that he (now it is a year) by chance fell; on account of which fall in the back hunchbacked was made, and by the suffering of the said hump and the violence of the flesh oppressed from the same hump the place of his beard on the left side into the left place of the breast he was compelled to hold pressed down to the breast itself; as it were a fixed head, on account of this not being able to raise it. And his having heard the name of the said Saint, to the Body of him with devotion he betook himself, and drank of the wine aforesaid and the aforesaid Relics of the said Saint touched. Not on account of this from the said hump, and suffering was he freed. But when he was returning to his homeland as though sad, and to the bridge of Heraclea came near; him very many Heraclians, who were coming to the said Relics, met, saying: That one went to the Saint, and was not freed. But he said, I such hope in the Saint have, that before I come to the walls of Heraclea, whole I shall be. And when he had said this, not even a journey of three paces the said Joannuccius taking, in a wondrous manner received of his back entire health; forthwith vanishing the hunchbackedness aforesaid and the neck, and head straightly he holds and high; and the said Joannuccius with cheerfulness returned to the Relics of the said Saint; and whole was seen by many inhabitants of the said land of Heraclea, who had at first seen him thus sick. And he was seen also whole by many officials of the said land, on account of which all the crowd, all the people, and the assembly, in the Lord rejoiced; and pouring out with all devotion of heart and mouth, of thanks abundant acts, they returned to their homeland: and of these things all sufficiently fully it was established.

[31] Francia, daughter of Nicholas of Bibino, having a certain suffering in the left hip, on account of which as far as the left foot with a dire and hard pain greatly she was pressed, on June 30 the infirm side is healed. and straight she could not proceed, from two years back: and having recourse to the Relics of the said Saint sipping of the wine, with which the said Relics had been washed, and them with devotion touching in the place of pain of the same, on the last of June of the 14th Indiction, of the suffering aforesaid was freed: just as of the foregoing legitimately it was established.

[32] A man cured falls back into the same evil having returned to his sins. Basil Fundatarius inhabitant of the land of Caltagirone, now it is two months, that he was so grievously made infirm, that from his bed to rise he could not without the aid of persons, who should lead him to the Church aforesaid. Who helped, by support was led, and kissing the Relics themselves and drinking of the wine aforesaid of his body the strength received, with his own feet walking. But when he returned to his concubine's wedlock, whom at first he held, his own wife forsaking; in a wondrous manner he was with his former infirmity weighed down: which by no means was done without now also a divine Mystery, because a greater in this is shown miracle with the infirmity aforesaid returning to him on account of the concubine's wedlock with whom further to sin he presumed; of which it was established sufficiently fully.

[33] Cosmanus of Agrigentum, inhabitant of Lyhodia, from five years back in the shin and joint of the foot an infirmity incurred, A lame man is healed, on account of which he had lost the nerve of the foot, and the bone, which is called the chamber of the foot, on account of which he could not without crutches walk. And in betaking himself to the monument aforesaid before to it he came, straightly without crutches leaping up he stood, and walked: and the crowd all looking on he proceeded, on account of which to the eyes of several persons astonishment diminished: and coming to the aforesaid Church the crutches there in sign of the miracle he left: of which fully it was established.

[34] William of Master John the Carpenter, inhabitant of the land of Heraclea, dim-sighted, suffering a catarrhal humor in the head, from the Month of August last past, which as it were the edge of his eye blunted; going devoutly to the tomb aforesaid of his sight immediately, which he had lost the health received: and of the foregoing indeed it was established.

[35] another lame man, Raynaldus of Palagonia, and Margaret spouses under oath said, that Chiccus their son a fall incurred; on account of which lame in the left foot he had remained and could not walk: and carried to the monument aforesaid, and the Relics of the said Saint, whole was made: of which legitimately it was established.

[36] and a third, Jacobina of lord Thomasius of Arlotto, suffering an infirmity in the left hip, on account of which she could not go straight, and to the aforesaid Relics approaching, was to her former health brought back: of which it was established.

[37] having a swelling in the throat, John of Amore, under the religion of the Sacrament rendered by him, said, that his daughter is suffering in the throat a sickness, which the physicians Scrofula call: who carried to the aforesaid Relics, and them touching, and drinking of the wine aforesaid from that infirmity by the power of the Lord and the merits of the Saint aforesaid whole was made, altogether vanishing the infirmity aforesaid: of which it was established.

[38] seized in nearly all her members, Francia, wife of William of Taverna, who suffered weakness in the body, on account of which she could not walk unless of some propped by the support: and her head and hand trembled, and altogether of the hands' help and operation she lacked; who carried to the aforesaid Relics, and them touching, and sipping of the wine aforesaid, the wished health recovered: of which it was established.

[39] Antonellus, son of Robert of Torcisius inhabitant of Ragusa, at the time of his birth in the genitals burst, suffering a hernia from boyhood, on account of which he felt a wondrous pain: but carried to the aforesaid Relics, and them touching, and sipping of the wine aforesaid whole thereupon was made: which is proved, and was established through a rescript of the venerable Bishop of Syracuse.

[40] likewise another, Henry, son of Matthew of Presbyter Angelo, for a long time the same suffered infirmity, so that his genitals seemed full of rottenness: carried to the aforesaid Relics he was to his former health brought back: of which it was established.

[41] Gemma, wife of James of Carbonara, inhabitant of Ragusa, hands and feet twisted, suffered from one year back, weakness in the body, on account of which her hands and feet she had twisted and bent; and she so as though shaken and broken [was] throughout the whole, that with her feet she could not go, unless with a staff supporting herself on the ground, and a little proceeding, of those hands and feet of the strength, the help lacking; carried to the Relics of the said Saint, the health which she had lost she received: which several seeing, as though in ecstasy placed, with wondrous astonishment filled, marveled vehemently at that which befell her. And of this fully it was established.

[42] Margaret, wife of John of Pisa, under oath said, and of a paralytic that now it is nine months, that a certain gout in hand, shin and foot left invaded on account of which so attenuated she remained, and was prostrated, as if of those members the defect altogether she suffered. But betaking herself to the Relics of the said Saint, and them with devotion touching, and drinking of the wine aforesaid from the aforesaid sickness whole she escaped: and thereupon fully it was established.

[43] John of Alexandria of Palea, of Lombardy, putrid ulcers. under oath said, that he in the right shin suffered a disease, on account of which that shin was marvelously full of ulcers putrid and with corruption swollen, and full of pains; from which the greatest quantity of corruption daily flowed, which a stench not small gave, those standing by not being able to bear it. And betaking himself to the said monument, and the Relics of the Saint aforesaid the health he recovered wished, as it was established.

ANNOTATIONS OF C. I.

p It is omitted by Cajetanus.

q "Ruga" French "rue," a street: and so above "ancha" French "anche" the hip, and many other things below. See the Glossary of Du Cange.

r Cajetanus "Bonallerti."

s In Latin "gibbus" (hump): frequent among Italian writers.

t Also this Cajetanus omitted.

u Cajetanus "Crittus."

Ragusa a town distant from Caltagirone 28 thousand paces to the south.

To the following we shall note nothing, because the barbarisms occasionally from the vernacular tongue occurring sufficiently elsewhere in this work are explained; for example "Croceae" little forks under the armpit. "Coxia" the thigh; "citrolus," the citron fruit. "Forgia" a smithy; "Barile," a little cask; "bracale" a truss for containing a hernia; "Vola" of the foot the sole; the palm of the hand, "Vola." No more was it worth the trouble the proper names of men and women from the use of the common people truncated to the original integrity to restore, such as are "Ciccus" Franciscus; "Fimia" Euphemia, "Bartolus," Bartholomew; "Perna," Petrina or Petronilla etc.

CHAPTER II.

The miracles of the month of July until the 20th day.

[44] John of Rosana, serving in the land of Piazza, and Rosa, On July 9 a bleariness is healed spouses, under the religion of the sacrament said, that Margaret their daughter, suffered a bleariness in the eyes, on account of which those eyes shut she was compelled to hold, and from them tears daily flowed. And carried to the monument of the Saint aforesaid on the 14th day of the month of July, whole was made, every from her eyes spot vanishing throughout: of which infirmity it was established through the oath of the witnesses subscribed, namely Joanna wife of Bartolduxius, Diamante of Cosentino, and Isolda daughter of Palermus Cosentino.

[45] Allegrantia of John of Amore of Piazza, under oath said, that she had a certain daughter, Perna by name, a limping, who was born lame, and over the hip a swelling had: whom she carried to the Relics of the Saint, and them touching and drinking of the wine aforesaid on July 9 of the 14th indiction, from desire the wished in the Lord health received, and leaping up she stood and walked: of which infirmity to us it was established through the oath of John of Ferla, John of Platea and Constantia of Stilo.

[46] the hernia of one boy Diamante of Bartholomew of Notho, inhabitant of the land of Piazza, under oath said, that now it is six years, that her son a grave suffering in the genitals suffered: who carried to the monument aforesaid on the ninth day of the month of July whole was made; as it was established.

[47] James of Peregrina, inhabitant of Piazza, under the same oath said, and of another, that he had a son of three years, who in the genitals burst, a great in them sustaining suffering. And carried to the monument aforesaid on the ninth of the said month, whole was made; as it was established through the oath of Pisana Literia, and Rosina the mother of that boy.

[48] Cortisia of Ugolino, inhabitant of Heraclea, said, that she had her daughter, Violanta by name, a maimed arm, who from four years back suffered an infirmity in the right arm, from which nothing could be hoped: who led to the monument aforesaid and the Relics of the said Saint, whole was made and unharmed on the ninth day of the month; as to us it was established about the infirmity aforesaid through the oath of the witnesses written below, namely Millarisia wife of Francis Cordarius, Flamen of Cordario, Manuccius of Ugolino, and Roger of Campisio.

[49] Donadeus of James of Messina, inhabitant of the land of Mineo, under oath said, that he in the left shin from fifteen years back, on July 10 a shin greatly swollen is cured, was grievously, nay more grievously made infirm, so that the shin itself swelled wholly and so was thick, as one cask in roundness: and to the monument aforesaid betaking himself, the shin itself with the sand of the said sepulchre covering, in a wondrous manner, by the wondrous and praiseworthy power of the Lord on the 10th day of the said month of the said infirmity freed and to his former health restored: on account of which many were filled with astonishment and as though in ecstasy placed. And of the infirmity aforesaid it was established through the oath of Diamante of Cortisio, Agrippina of Cortisio: and of the liberation aforesaid sufficiently fully it was established.

[50] a weak arm, James of Naro, inhabitant of Leocata, having arms so weak, that he could not raise them, except as far as his mouth; with devotion betaking himself to the monument aforesaid and the Relics of the said Saint; his former which in those arms strength he had lost, by the power of the Lord and the merits of the said Saint received, on the tenth of the said month; and of the liberation aforesaid to us it was established to the full. And of that infirmity it was established through the oath of the persons subscribed, namely Genta wife of the said James, Alemanna wife of Matthew of Naro, and Sister Rhetorica of Lalicata.

[51] Isabella of Sportella, inhabitant of Paternò, under oath said, a lame leg that now it is ten years, that she suffered a certain infirmity in the left hip and in the left knee, on account of which the shin itself left was than the other shin smaller, by a third of one palm, and lame she went with only the toe of the foot, and carried to the Relics aforesaid whole was made, on the tenth of the said month, and with all seeing straight she proceeded; on account of which astonishment seized all, and they magnified the Lord. And of the aforesaid infirmity it was established through the oath of Constantia of Salia Dirioti, and Philip of Giracio, James of Petroticero, Petrucius of Modica, and Joanna of Philip of Allegro inhabitant of Paternò.

[52] On July 11 the gait is restored to a lame man. Nicholas of Serafino, inhabitant of Modica, under oath said, that he suffering a certain abscess (now it is six months and more) in the right foot, on account of which walk he could not, and by medical care from it several bones had been extracted; carried to the Saint aforesaid's Relics, and them kissing, whole was made, on the eleventh day of the month aforesaid, in that manner soundly walking, as when whole he had been. And of the aforesaid infirmity it was established through the oath of Gentilis his mother, Paul of Catania, Robert of Bussemi, Melodia wife of him, and Ventura of Gargano: and of the liberation aforesaid it was established to the full; and found was this miracle both through the truthful confession of the said Nicholas and the witnesses above-written, and through the report of the Priest John of Melle, sent into the said land of Modica to inquire into the Miracles of the said Saint, which also was approved and confirmed through the Reverend Father and Lord by the grace of God the Bishop of Syracuse.

[53] Cortina, a woman of Master William of Dilecta of Heraclea, under the religion of the sacrament rendered by her said, On July 12 a hump of 20 years is removed; that from twenty years back, she had a hump in the back: and with devotion betaking herself to the monument aforesaid, there for ten days a delay making, and beseeching from God and the Saint aforesaid for herself of health a remedy to be applied: whole and unharmed was made, all vanishing the hunchbackedness aforesaid on the twelfth of the said month. And it was established of the infirmity aforesaid through the oath of the witnesses written below, namely the Priest Henry of Bursa, the Priest William of John, Bona Rosa her mother, and John of Thomasius Gallicius: and of the liberation aforesaid sufficiently to the full it was established.

[54] Matilda of Philip of Provincialis of Lentini, suffering weakness in the hips, and in the joints of her body an immoderate suffering, arthritis is cured; on account of whose pressures from the feast of Easter of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ first prescribed upon her feet she could not be governed; carried to the Saint aforesaid's tomb, was restored to her body's wished health, on the twelfth of the said month. And of the infirmity fully it was established through the sacrament of Raynerius of Notary Raynaldus, Altruda a woman of Nicholas Concapira, and Bella a woman of Lentini. And of the liberation aforesaid sufficiently to the full it was established.

[55] Ventura of Messina, inhabitant of Caltanissetta, suffering in the shins a certain gout from three months back, on account of which in those shins of swelling much loomed, a paralysis of the legs, and from them rottenness went out, and she was so bent most grievously that walk she could not; relying in mind, she was carried to the said monument, and of the said members received the wished health on the twelfth of the said month. And it was established of the infirmity aforesaid through the oath of Tibaldus Ruttus and Humana of Roger of Irenolfus, inhabitants of the said land: and of the aforesaid liberation sufficiently plainly it was established.

[56] Thomasia, wife of the late Matthew of Milicia of Lentini, under oath said, that she had a son Roger by name, On July 16 a hernia is healed, who from the time of his nativity back, suffered in the genitals a rupture; and she carried him to the aforesaid Relics; and them being touched, received in the said testicles health, on the sixteenth of the said month; as it was established thereupon through the oath of the said Thomasia, of Lady Pisana of Lombardo, of Lady Fimia Baronista Milofli and of Lady Infilisia of Modica.

[57] Gerland, of John Rabbo, inhabitant of the land of Modica, under oath said, that he (now it is nine years) a most grievous in the shin suffered infirmity: a shin greatly swollen, on the 13th; on account of which that shin was made swollen in the manner of a flagon, and with ulcers full; and with excessive and continual pain was afflicted, sobs most frequent and sighs emitted, and could not without a staff's support govern himself; and his feeble body by the force of the said staff, and not without great of his person torment dragged. Carried to the monument aforesaid, and his shins' swelling removed, which in them he had lost the health, was by the said Saint's merits obtained on the thirteenth of the said month; of which things it was established through the truthful confession of the said Gerland, and through the assertion of the Priest John of Melle, of Master Baldoyn the Maltese, and Roger Villarius, father-in-law of the said Gerland; and through the oath also of brother Peter of Esztergom, servitor of S. Peter of Butera, of Melodia of Modica; of Adam of Lucca, Paulinus Mazonus, Gualterius Constantinus, and Peter of Noto inhabitants of Modica.

[58] Gualterius of Costarella, inhabitant of Catania under oath said, that for ten years and more, and from that time back, on the 16th an arm ill-affected, until now, a grave and dire in the arm sickness he had; from which to help himself he could not; and betaking himself to the aforesaid Relics, of the said arm was to his former health restored on the sixteenth of the said month, as it was established.

[59] Perronus of Mineo, inhabitant of the same land, under the same oath asserted, that from his childhood's time was on account of infirmity in the knees bent: the knees contracted, and betaking himself to the aforesaid Saint's Relics, and them with devotion touching, was to the said knees' straightness restored, from which straight he walks. And of the aforesaid infirmity it was established through the oath of the subscribed witnesses, namely Ventura of Tegera, Ventura mother of the said Perronus, and Frederick of Sabaria. And that he is whole and straight goes, it was established sufficiently fully.

[60] Gentilis a woman, wife of Henry of Cordario, inhabitant of Bizini, under oath asserted, that over the thigh a rupture she suffered from five years back; on account of which grievously she groaned, a ruptured thigh, and with intolerable was afflicted punishment and pain. And betaking herself to the said sepulchre, from that suffering was wholly the aforesaid Saint's merits freed, on the sixteenth of the said month; as it was established of the infirmity and liberation aforesaid sufficiently to the full.

[61] Benedict of Pizutus the cobbler, inhabitant of Palermo, under oath said, that he from four years back, an abscess, suffered over the kidneys a certain abscess, called by the physicians a fistula under the shoulder-blade; to which when no by many physicians could be applied cure of health nay of it the very physicians despaired: the fame of the said Saint through diverse parts of Sicily growing, he betook himself to the Relics aforesaid and received through them the wished to the kidneys health, on the sixteenth of the said month: of which also it was established through the Sacrament of Jacobina his wife.

[62] Gualterius of Munda, inhabitant of Scicli, under oath said, that Antonellus his son (now it is two years) suffered of the interior parts ruptures; the intestines ruptured, and he led on the same day by the same father of his to the foresaid Relics, was thereupon freed; and nonetheless of the aforesaid infirmity it was established through the oath of Raynaldus Pisanus, kinsman of the said Gualterius.

[63] Gualterius the son of la Testa of Mineo, under oath said, a boy's hernia on the 16th, that Joannuccius his son from one year back, suffered a sickness in the genitals: and he carried his said son to the aforesaid Relics; and freed was thereupon, and restored to his first health, on the sixteenth of the said month: of which things it was established sufficiently fully.

[64] Andreas of Lazarus, inhabitant of Bizini, under the same oath said, that from five years back, and a man's on July 17, he burst in the left side, from which certain of his body's inner parts to his privy parts flowed down, and grievously he sustained suffering: on the seventeenth of the said month of July of the 14th Indiction to the said Saint's Relics devoutly betaking himself, was freed of the infirmity aforesaid and restored to his former health; as it was established sufficiently fully.

[65] Leonard of Catania, inhabitant of Caltagirone, from four years back, a limping. suffered an infirmity in the shin and knee left, from which lame he went; going to the said Relics and them kissing, whole was made, and restored to his former health, on the seventeenth of the said month, as it was established to the full.

[66] Richard of Claromonte, under oath said, On July 18 a hernia is cured, that Nicholas his son from his mother's womb in the genitals burst: and he carried him to the aforesaid Relics; and Nicholas himself the same kissing Relics, from him that infirmity departed on the eighteenth of the said month: of which infirmity it was established through the oath of Ventorinus of Claromonte, who on account of that infirmity to the same Nicholas on the thigh, and testicles a truss imposed; and through the oath of Fimia of Brota his mother; and of the liberation aforesaid it was established to the full.

[67] The said Richard and Fimia, spouses, under oath said, a rupture in the thigh, that Elizabeth their daughter, from two years back, suffered a rupture in the thigh; whom they carried to the Relics aforesaid and to them a kiss given with devotion of mind to the Relics, that rupture from the same daughter of theirs wholly departed.

[68] Ventorinus of Avinanti of Claromonte, under the same oath said, a broken foot. that Bartuccius his son of the age of four years and a half and more; when he was a little one in the cradle, him on a certain day in the arms of his sister it happened to be carried, and on account of a fall to the ground to fall, and broke for himself the right foot: which foot afterward twisted he held on the ground and otherwise could not proceed; in which indeed a swelling like a bone hardened, which according to nature in itself was reparable. And by him was carried on the eighteenth of the said month to the above-said Relics, and was restored to his former health, straightly going. Of the aforesaid case and infirmity it was established through the oath of Francis of Bisanto, Manfred of Bisconti, and Pasqualis of Petrosusco inhabitant of Claromonte and of the aforesaid liberation it is established to the full.

[69] On the 17th a hernia, Joanna a woman, wife of Paulinus of Samito, inhabitant of the land of Ragusa, under the same oath said, that she having her son, Joannuccius by name, who (now it is three years and more) in the genitals burst: and leading him with devotion to the Relics of the said Saint, that son of hers was thereupon freed, on the seventeenth of the said month. And of the aforesaid infirmity it was established through the oath of Jacobina of Pascali, and the said husband of hers inhabitant of the said land of Ragusa: and of the aforesaid liberation sufficiently clearly it was established.

[70] Scorchalupus of Scorchalupo, inhabitant of the land of Heraclea, under oath said, that Isolda his daughter, infirm eyes. incurred a certain infirmity in the eyes, on account of which those eyes to open she could not, nor from them anything see; and he carried her to the monument aforesaid on the day tenth of the said month; and those eyes she opened, and from them she sees like any whole person, utterly from her eyes every infirmity falling away. And of the aforesaid infirmity it was established through the oath of the witnesses written below, namely Nicholas of Mannus the Priest, Nicholas of Fonte the Notary, Matthew of Pagano: and of the health aforesaid clearly it appeared to all.

[71] On July 18 there are healed a contracted arm and leg, On the eighteenth of the same, in the hour of cockcrow, Joanna of Gatto, inhabitant of Catania, under the same oath said, that so a curvature she suffered in the right arm, that the sign of the Cross to make she could not; and the same she suffered in the shins, so that her knees themselves she could not bend; being in the church aforesaid of S. James, freed she was of the infirmity aforesaid. And while certain ones standing by there requested certain clerics, that in praise and honor of God almighty the bells they should ring, and to this the said clerics showed themselves lukewarm and remiss, on account of the late hour of the night; in a wondrous manner, nay a wondrous and supernatural miracle, and worthy of admiration, and to be praised with proclamation by the merits of the said Saint came forth. For at that hour of itself one of the little bells, fixed in the clock or wheel, on high in the same church existing (which cannot be rung, unless the wheel aforesaid turns; the bells of themselves marvelously ring and one ringing, on account of the motion of the wheel aforesaid, all the others must be rung, in which wheel was wound a rope; which, when the said little bells are rung, is drawn and lifted) of itself sounded and the sound twice made, the rest of the little bells by no means ringing at those hours. Of which things to us it was established through the oath of the Priest Francis of Helena, Simon of Pandolfo, Nicholas of Amico, William of Anselmo, Matthew of Vulpe of Naro, Rosa wife of Constantius of Milazzo, James of Nicotra inhabitants of Catania, and Bonagratia of Flaccavento, and Fimia of Alemanno inhabitants of Syracuse.

[72] After that hour, a certain lamp lit that same night, through which was made light before the majesty of the blessed Virgin and of blessed Gerland in the Chapel of Lord Gentilis of Partu, and a lamp is miraculously lit. in the same church existing was extinguished, and while a certain boy who is called Bartuccius, who together with certain others was passing the night in the Chapel aforesaid said; O Blessed Gerland light for us the lamp; because we cannot it light. Miraculously by the power and virtue of the Saint aforesaid, the said lamp was lit; with several seeing, and these by oath confirming.

[73] On the eighteenth of the said month, Lord Peter Lancea, A continual fever is cured, a Knight, present in the Church of S. James of Caltagirone, under oath said that he had his daughter, Joanna by name, who suffered a continual fever; and his having heard the name of the said Saint, and vowing to the same Saint for the said daughter of his, while the fever aforesaid lasted; the vow uttered freed was she altogether of the fever aforesaid.

[74] Francia of Alemanno, inhabitant of Syracuse, under oath said, and a contracted arm. that she having a certain niece of hers, Florina by name, daughter of Henry the Pisan, who suffered from two years back, a curvature in the arm and hand; from which she could not anything do, nor the said hand open. And vowing to the same Saint for her, that our Lord Jesus Christ by the merits of the said Saint her from the aforesaid infirmity would free, she led her to the aforesaid Saint's Relics, and of the aforesaid infirmity on the said day eighteenth of the said month was freed.

CHAPTER III.

The remaining miracles through July and August.

[75] On the twentieth of July, of the 14th Indiction, Vannes the Pisan, inhabitant of Syracuse, under oath said, On July 20 a hernia is healed, that Ciccus his son from six years below, in the genitals burst, and he leading his son to the monument of the Saint aforesaid of the infirmity aforesaid whole was made; of which infirmity it was established also through the oath of the witnesses written within, namely Fimia wife of the same Pisan, Cetura of grace, and Richard and Pedicita inhabitants of Syracuse. And of the liberation aforesaid it was established sufficiently fully.

[76] On the same day, Perri Manconicus, inhabitant of the City of Catania, hemiplegia, under oath said, that now it is two months and more, that he suffered rheum in the left hip, which descended through the marrow as far as the foot, upon which foot to govern himself he could not and when he wished to go, it was necessary for him with a staff to govern himself, going yesterday to the said Relics after the hour of midday; whole was made, and restored to his former health; of the infirmity aforesaid it was established through the oath of Isabella Lalonga inhabitant of the said City.

[77] Francia of Corione, inhabitant of the land of Lentini, under the same oath said, that now it is four years, long-lasting ulcers, that she suffered in the buttocks certain ulcers or sores, which neither through time, nor through physicians could be cured; and betaking herself with devotion to the Relics of the said Saint and the same touching Relics from the aforesaid infirmity was freed.

[78] a trembling hand, John of Palatiolo, under oath said, that from his infantile age back, in the hand right he trembled, nothing from it being able to do; and betaking himself to the Saint's Relics from that hand the tremor vanished.

[79] Bartuccius of Pandolfino; under the same oath said, that when he on a certain day betook himself to a certain shop of Gofredus of lord Antelmus, the hips and feet injured from a fall. situated in the Parish of Saint Julian, in which dwells Roger of Costa; and when he sat upon a certain anvil, which was fixed in a certain wood or block, in the same shop existing; by chance it happened that the said anvil fell, and the said Bartuccius likewise fell with a striking of his body; on account of which a certain little fork, which holds the head of the pole of a certain smithy, existing in the same shop; struck that Bartuccius so grievously, that violently were opened the hips of the said Bartuccius: on account of which fall, now it is a year and more, he could not walk with his feet, nay sometimes through his house bent as far as the knees and with a staff he walked, the rest of the time in bed he lay, and through many physicians to him could no cure of health be applied: with devotion on horseback he betook himself to the Relics of the said Saint kissing them, and touched from these in the place of that suffering, health as he wished, he merited to obtain.

[80] On August 19 the faculty of walking is recovered; Leucius of Aquila of Messina, under oath said, that he, now it is ten years, suffering a certain infirmity in both hips, on account of which in no way could he go straight, except with crutches or staves; having devotion to the said Saint; and coming to the said church, where are laid up the Relics of the said Saint, having heard the miracles which on account of his merits flashed forth, placing himself before the image of the said Saint, immediately was restored to his former health, walking straight without the abovesaid staves, on the day Monday, the nineteenth of August of the 14th Indiction current.

[81] and on July 1 the faculty of speaking. Master Ugolinus of Buttillerio, inhabitant of Lihodia and Joanno a woman, spouses, under oath said, that on the nineteenth of the month of June last past of the same Indiction the same Master Ugolinus suffered a certain infirmity and nothing to speak could: and while he vowed a vow in his heart of coming to the Relics of the said Saint, after the vow aforesaid on the first day of the month of July departing from the said land of Lihodia, for the sake of coming to the Relics themselves, crossing the water of Vallone, which is below the said land of Lihodia, immediately the faculty of speech he received. And proved are the foregoing through the witnesses written below, bound under oath, namely Notary Roger Scolaremet, Notary Agicardus of Messina, inhabitants of the land aforesaid.

[82] A girl ruptured in the thigh is cured, Sollitia a girl of three years, daughter of Pisana of John of Taurino, inhabitant of Claromonte, having a rupture in the thigh, carried to the Relics of the said Saint whole was made: and of the foregoing it is established through the oath of the persons written below, namely the said Pisana mother of the said girl, and Rosina wife of Francis of Taurino.

[83] Raynaldus of Palagonia, and Margaret of Judice-Joanne, spouses of Heraclea, lame in foot, under oath said; that Cissus their son fell into a precipice, on account of which so suffered he in the left hip, that lame he went, and going to the tomb of the said Saint Gerland, immediately was restored to his former health; and proved are the foregoing through the oath of the persons written below, namely Cortissa, daughter of James Scorza, and of Ventura of John of Cosentia inhabitants of the said land of Heraclea.

[94] from an injured thigh; Jacobina of Lord Tomasius, inhabitant of the said land of Heraclea, under oath said, that now long she suffered an infirmity in the hip, on account of which she could not straight walk; and approaching the Relics of the said Saint, and them kissing was made whole and straight goes. And proved are the foregoing through the witnesses written below, namely Margerita of ventre, Millarisia wife of Francis of Cardaso, Realis of Ragusa, and Isolda of Chirasto.

[85] Clara, a woman of Munnizi, inhabitant of Catania, under oath said, that Jannuccius her son, who is of the age of years thirteen a little more or less, having a swelling in the throat, having an infirmity of scrofula in the throat from six years below, so that always from the sores, which on account of them were made, putrid blood and pure blood flowed; coming to the Relics of the said Saint, and remaining there for ten days and more, on the aforetitled day by the merits of the said Saint from that infirmity was made whole, and the sores themselves likewise healed were made just as appears through the inspection of the eyes. And proved are the foregoing through the persons written below confirming by oath, namely Berlingerius the Mason, Alexandra of Corrigerio, Allegrantia of Trimoya, and the Priest Francis of Helena.

[86] a contracted arm, Mercatanti of Laurentius inhabitant of Leocata, under oath said, that Philip his son who is of ten years and more (now it is nine years) suffered weakness in the right arm, so that he could not raise the right hand, except as far as the mouth: and coming to the Relics of the said Saint, strength in the arm aforesaid received, and was restored to his former health. And this was also proved through the Oath of Nicholas of Puranti of the said land of Leocata.

[87] Martin the Smith, inhabitant of Randazzo, under oath said, and a putrid ulcer, that now it is a year one and more, that he had his right shin so with sores and ulcers full, that putrid blood and as it were putrid water continually they poured out, and that shin much swelled; and coming with devotion to the monument and Relics of the said Saint, was restored to the wished health. And proved are the foregoing through the oath of the persons written below, namely Bernard of Schillacio inhabitant of Catania; Philip of Mannis inhabitant of S. Peter of Patti; and Jacobinus of Marregio inhabitant of Bizini.

[88] James of Marregio, inhabitant of Bizini, under oath said, a hernia from boyhood, that from the time of his childhood in the genitals he burst: and coming to the Relics, and tomb of the said Saint, a delay making there for ten days devotion preceding, and by the merits of the said Saint made whole. And of all these things it was established through the inspection of the eyes; and the aforesaid infirmity was seen by some of those who were appointed to know and see the Miracles of the said Saint.

[89] Brother Orlandus of Palermo, inhabitant of Ciminna, a hemiplegia. under oath said, that now it is a year one and more, that he suffered in the arm and right side as far as the feet a certain infirmity, on account of which with the hand and right part he could not anything do nor even straight proceed, and his having heard the name and fame of the said Saint, from the aforesaid land of Ciminna, toward it and the land of Caltagirone little by little for nearly a month one and more, with the suffering of body looming over him, with devotion proceeding to the monument and Relics of the said Saint; them kissing, and sipping of the wine, with which had been washed the Relics, was restored to his former health.

[90] There is healed one suffering from the kidneys: Manuel the Freedman of Bartholomew of Germany, inhabitant of Syracuse, under oath said, that now it is four months and more, that he an infirmity in the kidneys suffered; so that himself sustain he could not upon his feet, and on account of that infirmity in bed he lay: and hearing such Miracles, and vowing to come to the Relics of the said Saint, the vow itself uttered, began thereupon to recover, and on the Monday last past recovered wholly, so that to the Relics aforesaid with his own feet personally yesterday evening he betook himself. And of the aforesaid infirmity it was established through the oath of the persons written below, namely James of Heraclea the Cleric, Pisana of Ragusa, Bartholomew the Tarentine, Ciccus of Morsu, inhabitants of Syracuse. And how he is whole it was established through the inspection of the eyes by mandate of the Lord of Syracuse the Bishop to see and testify about the Miracles of the said saint.

[91] Cosca the Greek, of Lord James of Primifostio of Ragusa, dragging his body along the ground, under the same oath said, that he (now it is four months) suffered rheum, from which he was contracted and shaken, so that to his feet to cling he could not, nay when himself to move he wished, himself to drag it was necessary along the ground with both hands, and with what help he could. And carried upon a certain animal from the aforesaid land of Ragusa to the Relics of the said Saint, placed in the church of Saint James; his sins confessed, and in that manner along the ground betaking himself toward the altar, in which are the aforesaid Relics, and touched from them and sipping of the wine, with which had been washed the Relics aforesaid, today restored was he to his former health, and by many was seen whole: and of the foregoing all legitimately it was established.

[92] Raynaldus, son of Gilia a woman of Caltagirone, was so bent, that when to walk he wished, bent in the whole body not otherwise could he walk except with hands placed upon his knees; and betaking himself carried as he could to the Relics of the said Saint, was restored thereupon to his former health, and of himself walked; as it was established.

[93] Allegrantia of Piazza, under oath said, that from five years back, and in the fingers; so she suffered in the left hand, that the fingers of that hand curved in the palm she held; and betaking herself to the said Relics and sipping of the wine aforesaid and the aforesaid Relics being touched by her of the aforesaid hand whole was made, straight holding the fingers of that hand; as it was established.

[94] On the twenty-first of July of the 14th Indiction, Ventura of Priest John, lame from her mother's womb; inhabitant of the Hamlet of Misitellus, under oath said, that she was lame from her mother's womb until the aforetitled day: and betaking herself on the same aforesaid day to the Relics of the said Saint; placed in the aforesaid church of S. James, them kissing, immediately made was whole, and consolidated were her bases and leaping up she stood and walked straight, and many were filled with astonishment, and in ecstasy placed, at that which befell her. And proved are the foregoing through the oath of the persons written below her neighbors, with the astonishment of many; namely Gilia of Gistilisio, Sibillia of Magister, Joanne Perna of the Hamlet, Francia of Jacobus Stucha, and Joanna a woman of Crustino, inhabitants of the said Hamlet.

[95] Gratia, daughter of Sybillia of Pezodipani, inhabitant of Aci, likewise another similarly lame, under the same oath said, that from her nativity until now she had her right foot curved and twisted, so that she could not proceed except with the heel of that foot; and coming to the aforesaid Relics and them kissing, whole was made and straight proceeds. And proved are these things through the oath of the persons written below, namely Margaret of Benignato, Nicholas of Tauromenium, Alexander of Henry of Magno, Pesideria of William Curonario, and Simon of Rachoppo.

[96] On the twenty-second of the same, Florina of Venuto of Bandino, a hernia-sufferer, inhabitant of Heraclea, under oath said, that she had her son natural, son of Fultus Manchinus, Ciccus by name, who from seven years back, in the genitals burst; and hearing the miracles of the said Saint, first approached the tomb of the said Saint, and afterward departing thence and coming to the said Relics on the journey immediately the said boy whole was made; and so whole was seen. And of the infirmity aforesaid it was established through the oath of Margaret of Pagano Barbarius.

[97] On the same day Isabella of Agrigentum, inhabitant of the Hamlet of Fuminis-frigidi, under oath said, that (now it is six years) and from then throughout until the twentieth day of the said month, having suffered a flux for six years, continually a flux she suffered; from which manifoldly and so she was vexed so much, that from the consequent weakness she suffered a defect in the edge of the eyes; and from the excessive evacuation according to what she herself opined or from some other cause emerging from the said flux, in her belly also a swelling appeared, and apertures six were opened, from which, and each of them flowed continually putrid blood: of which sores four in an artificial way to their former health being brought back, at one time from six wounds, the remaining two putrid blood also poured out. On the said twenty-first day of the month, devotion preceding to the said Saint, on horseback toward the monument of the Saint aforesaid going and coming at the time of night to that monument from a great and long-lasting languor, in which the aids of physicians to her all had failed, immediately was restored to her former health and from the flux and sores aforesaid was freed from which before receiving health by herself to walk she could not; and now by herself by the merits of the Saint aforesaid from all weariness freed, not as sick in body but as perfectly whole by herself walks, and goes hither and thither, in a moment she is cured. and with straight feet to walk by many was seen. And of the aforesaid infirmity it was established through the oath of the persons written below, namely of Floris delisia a woman, wife of Nicholas of Primalancea; of Joanna of Mineo, Margaret of Stephen, Perna of Gimburuto, inhabitants of the said Hamlet of Fuminis-frigidi.

[97] On the twenty-third of July of the 14th Indiction 1327 Alemanna, wife of Anselm of Rahone, Possessed by a demon inhabitant of Holy Spirit of Caltanissetta, who (now it is a year one and more) by an unclean spirit was vexed and possessed, who day and night her to howl, to groan, and to rage compelled; her having heard through Rosata her daughter the name of the said Saint, and for the same mother of hers to the said Saint vowing, that the same mother of hers from the possession of the demon he would free; and the vow aforesaid uttered in the same place, before Alemanna was moved from that place, a vow made she is marvelously freed. to come to the monument and Relics of the said Saint from the vexation aforesaid was freed. Which was seen by the power of the Lord and the said Saint's merits to be shown by a sign: for at the hour the said Alemanna was freed; a great whirlwind and a vehement wind raged, so that there seemed from it the houses and trees of the said place to suffer ruin and uprooting not small. And afterward she came to the Relics of the said Saint, and them with great devotion kissing was freed. And these things testify Rosata her daughter, Rosa of laudato, Agnesia of Fachello, Joanna wife of Simon of Petra-persia and Joanna of Nigro.

[98] The use of a withered arm and of the feet is restored. On the same day James of Libigini of Agrigentum, under oath said, that he having an infirmity in the right arm, from which arm nothing to do he could, and that arm as though withered he had, and he suffered in his shins and feet; so much that straight to walk he could not; approaching with devotion to the said Saint, and the Relics of him kissing, freed was he and brought back to his former health. Of which things it was established through the oath of Isabella of Castro Joannae.

[99] On the twenty-seventh of the same Baronissa of Ligodia, wife of Roger Gatucius, said, A demoniac woman is freed. that on the Sabbath last past the twentieth of the month, betaking herself to her vineyard, her a spirit unclean invaded, and throughout the whole day she was by the malignant spirit possessed, on account of which with pains and torments very many she was tortured in body: and her husband aforesaid for her vowing to the Saint aforesaid from the said vexation was she wholly freed. And it was established through the oath of the persons written below, namely John of Agello, Alexandra of Palazzolo that she signs had shown that she was vexed by a demon.

[100] On the last of August, of the 14th Indiction 1327 at the hour of cockcrow, On August 31 many passing the night at the Relics of the Blessed, a wondrous power and in a wondrous manner and worthy of admiration, and to be extolled with proclamation, burst forth by the merits of the said Saint. For at that hour in the said Church of S. James very many persons, before the monument of blessed Gerland, in the same Church passing the night, who (had suffered various and diverse infirmities, and with devotion preceding to the said Saint, and a vow uttered by them, that the aforesaid Saint them of the aforesaid sicknesses would free; to the same Church and Relics had betaken themselves) with their own hearing perceived before the monument itself, a sound and song, they hear a wondrous song and as it were an organ, sweet as if by Angels played, full of melody, delightful and harmonious in their ears to sound; the sound itself and song through three times and more by a noise repeated, which the aforesaid persons hearing about the proper object of it, and of the song, by no means deceived, were filled with astonishment much; thrice repeated. and in such things marveling, they rejoiced in the Lord, the Lord himself magnifying and praising. Of which things it was established through the oath of Nicolina wife of John of Naro, inhabitant of Ragusa; and of the same John of Naro; of Peter Simon of Chanchio, inhabitant of Saint Peter of Patti; of Leonard of Nicosia, Bartolinus of Martorano inhabitant of Piazza, and Matthew of Nicosia, who all the foregoing all heard.

[101] On the Fourth day of September of the 15th Indiction, Anna, On September 4 a boy is freed from a foul hernia. wife of Basil Trimayenus, inhabitant of the Castle of Plano-Milatii, under oath said, that he had his son Peter by name, who from the beginning of his nativity in the genitals burst and his testicles excessively appeared, and in winter time so swelled, and were inflated below that as though next to the knees they seemed. And on the night aforesaid she carried her said son to the Saint aforesaid and freed was he from the infirmity and suffering aforesaid, and wholly was seen whole by many: as it was established through the oath of the persons written below, namely Benedicta, daughter of Constantius Pecorarius; and of John of Roger Stragimus inhabitants of the same Castle.

[102] Through the Priest John of Melle sent into the land of Modica for the inquiry of miracles of the aforesaid Saint Gerland, Inquiry made at Modica into the miracles, found was the miracle written below, through the memorialized Saint done in the said land of Modica in a certain woman of the said land, who is called Fimia of Richard Balleri. Namely that the aforesaid Fimia confessed, formerly to have suffered a certain infirmity in the throat, which was as it were an abscess in the manner of one citron: so that she could not in any way her neck incline downward, and day and night for this cause she suffered the greatest pain: where an abscess in the throat is cured. and immediately that she was at the land aforesaid of Caltagirone, for the sake of a remedy and health to be obtained by the merits of the said Saint, devotion preceding she approached the sepulchre of the said Saint; and before there she came, and was at the river, which is called the Temple, she touched her throat, and it unharmed and whole found. Of this thing witnesses are, Francia of Brancaccio, Beatrix of Maniachi and Jacoba of Maniachi.

[103] The present transcript is transcribed from the original, which in the bronze chest of the privileges of the Most Gracious City of Caltagirone is kept. And a collation having been made by us the undersigned, it agrees with the same original in faith of which thing with our own hand we have subscribed.

I Francis Aprile, Rector of sacred Theology in this University of the Caltagironian College of the Society of Jesus, and censor of books of the Holy Inquisition by special commission of the Most Illustrious Senate was present, when the said original was extracted (in the presence of some of the Senators and other Nobles) from the said chest: and then a collation having been made with the present transcript; I attest, that in nothing does it differ from the same original.

I Gaetano Butera, by special commission abovesaid transcribed the present transcript and collated it with the original.

The Senate of the Most Gracious city of Caltagirone to all etc. We testify that the foregoing transcript and copy was extracted from the original, existing in the chest of the privileges of the city, and that the same is by the proper hand of Gaetano Butera the scribe, by our commission and also the subscription likewise of the Very Reverend Father Francis Aprile Lector and Censor of books of the Holy Inquisition is the proper hand of the very same Very Reverend Father de Aprile in testimony of which we have caused these presents to be made by me Notary-Proctor and with our usual Seal which we use fortified at the foot. Given at Caltagirone on the thirtieth and last day of June of the seventh Indiction 1690.

Antony James of Gallenti Notary-Proctor. in place of the ✠ great Seal