A
TRVE
RELATION
OF
THE
DEATH
OF
Cardinall
Bellarmine
,
of
the
Society
of
IESVS
.
ALTHOVGH
this
renowned
Cardinall
neyther
whiles
he
liued
in
Capua
,
of
which
he
was
Archbishop
,
nor
yet
in
the
Court
of
Rome
to
which
he
was
after
called
,
euer
pretermitted
his
ordinary
deuotion
,
euery
day
making
an
houre
of
meditation
,
saying
his
Masse
,
the
offices
of
the
Breuiary
and
our
B.
Lady
,
the
Letanyes
to
his
family
&
other
prayers
:
yet
had
he
obteyned
of
the
late
Pope
Paulus
V.
some
years
before
his
death
,
to
retyre
himselfe
for
a
whole
moneth
togeather
,
euery
yeare
in
the
Nouitiate
of
the
Society
of
Iesus
in
Rom.
And
this
he
did
always
in
September
,
in
which
month
only
,
the
high
Priest
of
the
old
law
did
enter
into
Sancta
Sanctorum
;
Art
of
dying
well
,
whereof
in
his
best
health
he
was
neuer
vnmindfull
.
And
this
last
yeare
of
1621.
as
if
he
had
receaued
responsum
mortis
,
a
moneth
sooner
then
ordinary
,
to
wit
,
in
the
beginning
of
August
,
he
began
to
thinke
,
not
of
a
retirement
only
for
one
moneth
,
but
of
a
perpetuall
sequestration
from
al
ordinary
imployments
,
to
attend
to
that
one
thing
which
the
Psalmist
no
lesse
thirsted
after
them
the
Hart
the
water
,
saying
,
And
to
compasse
the
better
this
his
desire
,
he
made
great
sute
vnto
this
present
Pope
Gregory
the
fifteenth
,
to
be
deliuered
from
the
Court
,
from
al
Consistoryes
,
Pope
Gregory
albeit
he
were
loath
to
loose
the
comfort
and
counsaile
of
so
worthy
a
man
,
whom
the
better
to
enioy
he
had
before
called
to
dwell
with
him
in
his
pallace
;
yet
seeing
him
so
earnest
in
his
demaund
,
&
the
demaund
in
it selfe
so
reasonable
,
at
length
yielded
therunto
;
and
forthwith
the
Cardinall
left
the
Court
,
returned
to
the
Nouitiate
of
the
Society
,
&
dismissed
the
greatest
part
of
his
family
,
but
yet
so
as
they
might
remayne
still
in
the
pallace
and
in
the
same
state
they
were
before
vnder
him
,
and
at
his
charge
,
vntill
they
could
place
themselues
in
some
other
seruice
.
Which
tydings
although
it
grieued
them
all
,
both
for
that
they
saw
the
losse
they
were
like
to
find
in
the
exchange
,
and
for
the
great
loue
and
most
deere
respect
which
they
bare
vnto
his
person
,
from
whome
nothing
but
his
commaund
,
or
their
own
death
could
haue
drawn
them
:
yet
seeing
the
constant
&
resolute
mind
of
their
Lord
,
euery
one
bare
the
Crosse
as
he
could
,
more
applauding
his
vertue
then
their
owne
fortune
in
this
diuorce
;
which
the
more
grieued
them
in
that
they
iudged
him
to
haue
lesse
need
of
any
other
preparation
to
dye
well
,
who
euen
from
his
infancy
had
still
exercised
himselfe
in
that
Art
,
which
by
practice
he
had
obserued
more
then
threescore
yeares
,
before
euer
he
left
any
thing
written
of
that
subiect
in
his
printed
booke
.
Being
now
arryued
at
the
harbour
of
his
so
long
,
and
much
desired
repose
on
the
25.
of
August
last
,
when
the
feast
of
S.
Bartholomew
is
kept
in
Rome
,
one
For
when
this
fit
was
past
,
with
great
alacrity
of
mynd
he
began
to
discourse
of
the
great
gladnes
and
comfort
he
had
,
for
that
he
was
so
neere
his
home
,
or
as
he
did
alwayes
in
this
sicknes
call
it
,
a
Casa
mia
,
to
my
howse
:
and
worthily
did
he
call
it
his
howse
,
for
as
S.
Augustine
sayth
of
the
militant
Church
on
earth
:
non
magis
est
domus
tua
,
quàm
domus
vhi
habes
The
Phisitians
expecting
the
issue
of
the
disease
,
and
nature
thereof
,
found
it
to
be
a
continuall
feuer
per
subintrantiam
,
with
proportion
of
a
double
Tertian
,
the
one
more
excessiue
then
the
other
:
the
former
bereaued
him
of
his
senses
,
the
other
was
much
more
moderate
.
And
truly
it
seemes
this
bereauement
to
haue
been
sent
him
for
the
greater
manifestation
of
his
vertue
,
for
therein
he
no
lesse
edifyed
others
that
saw
Lazarus
:
si
dormit
saluus
erit
,
if
he
sleep
he
will
recouer
;
But
notwithstanding
this
his
great
courage
&
patience
,
the
disease
still
increased
,
and
the
increase
caused
the
Phisitians
according
to
their
wont
to
warne
propensae
voluntatis
ac
paupertatis
meae
,
of
my
affection
and
pouerty
:
&
he
might
well
say
of
his
pouerty
,
for
besides
that
which
he
had
left
for
his
owne
diet
(
which
was
alwayes
very
meane
)
and
the
wages
of
his
seruants
,
he
had
already
bestowed
the
rest
on
the
poore
,
in
so
much
as
he
had
not
inough
left
him
for
his
buriall
and
exequies
,
in
case
the
Pope
had
not
fauoured
him
,
as
after
shal
be
shewed
:
and
the
Will
it selfe
was
such
as
might
beseeme
Bellarmine
,
but
to
others
will
seeme
perhaps
as
strange
as
any
that
hath
beene
made
for
many
yeares
by
a
Cardinall
.
Now
though
this
mention
of
making
his
last
Will
gaue
him
to
vnderstand
the
danger
of
his
disease
,
yet
he
much
desired
to
be
more
particulerly
enformed
thereof
,
and
to
that
end
requested
all
the
Phisitians
to
tell
him
plainly
in
what
state
he
was
,
assuring
them
all
that
he
feared
not
death
but
desired
it
:
and
so
far
(
quoth
he
)
I
am
from
all
feare
as
that
I
fynd
a
speciall
comfort
to
thinke
theron
;
yea
life
it selfe
would
be
more
grieuous
vnto
me
then
death
.
Wherfore
I
pray
you
aduertise
me
betymes
,
that
I
may
receaue
the
holy
Sacraments
ere
I
depart
.
Vpon
these
words
the
fourth
day
of
his
sicknes
it
was
consulted
amongst
the
Doctours
whether
it
were
not
expedient
that
he
should
receaue
the
B.
Sacrament
of
the
Altar
per
modum
viatici
;
and
they
iudged
it
not
expedient
to
giue
it
him
in
that
manner
,
but
only
by
way
of
ordinary
communicating
,
and
their
reason
was
because
he
might
yet
continue
for
many
dayes
,
and
in
case
some
sodden
accident
should
befall
him
,
this
receauing
might
suffice
for
the
other
.
Vpon
this
warning
giuen
,
he
prepared
himselfe
to
Confession
,
&
in
such
After
meate
all
his
recreation
was
to
heare
the
liues
of
Saintes
read
vnto
Pope
Clement
the
8.
soone
after
he
had
giuen
him
his
Cardinals
Hat
,
made
him
also
Archbishop
of
Capua
:
forthwith
he
left
Rome
,
and
like
a
true
Pastor
repayred
to
his
flocke
there
to
reside
,
&
discharge
all
the
dutyes
of
his
function
.
And
first
of
all
finding
the
reuenews
of
Many
other
vertues
were
noted
in
him
at
this
tyme
,
and
so
many
as
that
this
sicknesse
may
seeme
to
haue
beene
the
abridgement
of
all
which
he
had
exercised
in
his
life
before
.
For
besides
the
aboue
mentioned
courtesy
in
this
extremity
And
that
indeed
he
esteemed
them
more
like
his
brethren
then
seruants
many
wayes
appeared
,
especially
if
any
of
his
house
fell
sicke
as
there
did
two
,
immediatly
before
he
●ell
sicke
himselfe
:
●or
then
his
custome
wa●
to
go
to
their
chambers
,
to
sit
and
talke
with
them
,
to
comfort
them
,
&
euery
way
to
assist
&
help
them
.
And
touching
these
two
,
the
last
of
which
Matthaeus
Tortus
was
one
,
the
other
an
attendant
of
his
chamber
,
this
memorable
thing
is
recorded
;
that
wheras
Tortus
was
exceeding
sicke
,
and
held
to
be
in
great
danger
of
death
,
and
the
other
but
in
the
entrance
of
his
disease
which
he
seemed
not
much
to
regard
,
yet
the
Cardinall
hauing
seene
them
both
sayd
,
that
Tortus
should
recouer
and
the
other
dye
,
which
as
it
seemed
strange
to
all
that
heard
it
,
who
saw
great
signes
of
death
in
the
one
,
&
scarce
the
appearance
of
any
sicknes
in
the
other
;
so
the
euent
proued
to
be
true
:
for
the
later
within
few
dayes
departted
this
life
,
and
Tortus
is
yet
liuing
,
and
in
perfect
health
.
His
resignation
and
indifferency
of
Agayne
,
at
another
tyme
when
three
of
his
foure
Phisitians
had
consulted
and
determined
to
make
tryall
of
a
new
remedy
,
he
sayd
vnto
them
:
Will
you
not
yet
let
me
goe
?
Ah
let
me
alone
now
it
is
high
time
.
Fa.
Minutoli
answered
and
sayd
,
the
Rule
of
our
Society
doth
bynde
vs
in
sicknes
to
obey
the
Phisitians
;
he
had
no
sooner
named
the
Rule
,
but
the
other
recalling
his
former
wordes
sayd
:
you
say
well
,
there
is
a
Rule
,
let
them
appoint
what
they
wil
,
I
wil
do
whatsoeuer
they
wil
haue
me
:
so
punctual
he
was
in
obseruing
the
Rules
of
the
Society
in
all
thinges
,
eyther
for
life
or
death
,
with
,
or
against
his
owne
inclination
.
Some
neere
perhaps
will
say
,
that
notwithstanding
he
loathed
this
life
,
thirsted
after
heauen
,
and
would
gladly
be
with
God
,
yet
he
was
not
to
wish
for
his
owne
death
.
To
which
idle
fancy
I
answere
with
S.
Augustine
▪
But
leauing
his
vertues
for
a
while
which
euery
where
occurre
to
be
recounted
,
let
vs
a
little
behold
what
other
things
hapned
in
the
whole
course
and
successe
of
his
sicknes
,
in
the
beginning
wherof
it
was
thought
good
for
auoiding
of
recourse
to
speak
little
therof
,
&
to
extenuate
the
same
as
not
mortall
,
but
rather
some
casuall
indisposition
;
and
this
persuasion
continued
for
three
or
foure
dayes
till
the
Pope
truly
Remayning
therfore
in
this
ioyfull
hope
,
when
diuers
of
the
Society
came
to
him
and
offered
to
say
masse
and
pray
for
him
,
he
would
very
louingly
thank
them
all
,
but
still
accepted
their
curtesy
with
this
Caueat
,
that
they
should
not
pray
for
his
longer
life
,
but
contrariwise
This
his
feruent
desire
grounded
on
the
foresaid
motiue
was
so
imprinted
in
his
hart
,
and
fixed
therein
so
deeply
,
as
Signore
,
vorrei
andare
a
casa
mia
:
quando
sarà
quel
giorno
che
io
venga
al
vostr●
Regno
&c.
O
Lord
I
would
gladly
go
to
my
howse
;
when
will
that
day
be
when
I
may
come
to
thy
Kingdome
?
And
the
eleauenth
day
after
his
sicknes
he
sayd
vnto
all
his
Phisitians
:
When
shal
I
heare
from
you
that
happy
newes
that
I
must
depart
to
another
life
?
when
shall
I
be
deliuered
from
this
body
of
death
?
They
answered
as
before
,
not
so
long
as
they
could
keep
him
aliue
.
Well
(
quoth
he
)
God
sees
my
desire
,
and
how
willing
I
am
to
come
vnto
him
.
And
indeed
non
est
fraudatus
desiderio
suo
,
God
heard
his
prayer
,
and
that
very
night
he
was
seene
to
yex
or
sob
in
such
manner
,
as
a
learned
Phisitian
watching
with
him
held
it
for
mortall
,
and
forthwith
aduertised
the
Generall
(
for
so
had
the
Cardinall
before
willed
them
,
when
they
shold
perceaue
him
in
euident
danger
)
who
came
early
the
next
morning
,
and
seeing
how
matters
went
,
thought
it
best
,
plainly
to
acquaint
him
with
the
truth
,
and
sayd
vnto
him
:
My
Lord
,
I
thinke
that
the
end
of
this
sicknes
will
be
the
end
your
life
,
and
by
all
likelyhoode
you
cannot
escape
long
,
for
the
Phisitians
now
giue
a
very
ill
censure
of
your
disease
,
vpon
some
signes
they
haue
seene
,
and
more
and
more
discerne
in
you
:
so
as
it
seemes
Almighty
God
will
call
you
vnto
him
,
and
you
shall
do
well
to
make
your selfe
ready
,
and
dispose
of
what
you
haue
,
the
time
is
short
,
and
delayes
are
dangerous
.
At
this
vnexpected
,
but
much
desired
message
,
the
good
Cardinall
replenished
Cupio
dissolui
,
&
esse
cum
After
this
ioyfull
exclamation
,
turrning
his
speach
vnto
F.
Generall
,
as
answering
vnto
that
which
he
had
suggested
,
he
sayd
:
For
disposing
of
my
thinges
I
haue
nothing
left
to
dispose
,
&
it
grieueth
me
that
I
haue
nothing
to
bestow
vpon
the
Society
,
for
I
feare
much
that
in
making
you
mine
heyres
,
as
if
I
Charles
Borromaeus
,
as
Forth
with
all
thinges
were
made
ready
for
receauing
of
the
B.
Sacrament
of
the
Altar
for
his
Viaticum
,
which
was
ministred
vnto
him
by
the
handes
of
the
Generall
,
and
receaued
with
exceeding
deuotion
of
the
Cardinall
:
for
notwithstanding
his
extreme
weaknes
of
body
,
he
would
needs
agayne
,
as
he
had
done
before
,
rise
out
of
his
bed
,
and
kneele
on
the
ground
to
receaue
it
;
and
so
earnest
he
was
to
receaue
it
in
this
reuerent
manner
,
as
it
was
not
possible
,
without
his
great
griefe
and
distast
,
to
hinder
him
.
The
Generall
perceauing
his
will
so
feruently
bent
on
that
deuotion
,
wold
not
withstand
him
therein
,
least
the
inward
griefe
might
more
afflict
his
mind
then
that
exteriour
action
endomage
his
body
:
wherfore
he
receaued
it
kneeling
on
the
ground
,
with
singular
humility
;
&
after
some
collection
made
according
to
his
wont
which
endured
for
some
while
,
he
began
to
talke
with
the
Generall
about
his
buriall
,
and
the
manner
of
his
funeralls
,
which
he
did
with
so
great
peace
of
minde
,
&
so
familiarly
,
as
if
in
his
health
he
had
spoken
of
going
to
dinner
,
or
some
other
light
and
ordinary
matter
.
Much
he
desired
to
be
buryed
like
a
Religious
man
;
&
all
his
discourse
tended
Casa
professa
,
&
there
be
interred
,
none
intermedling
with
the
Exequies
but
the
said
Fathers
,
as
they
vse
to
do
for
their
own
in
such
cases
.
The
Generall
not
to
trouble
him
,
being
in
those
tearmes
,
made
no
semblance
of
any
mislike
,
howsoeuer
he
thought
it
not
conuenient
that
all
should
passe
in
that
order
.
Wherefore
conferring
with
the
Pope
therin
some
things
were
reuersed
,
for
his
Holines
would
haue
him
buryed
like
a
Cardinall
,
but
with
meaner
pomp
;
he
would
haue
him
embalmed
,
&
would
haue
the
other
Cardinalls
to
be
present
,
sending
also
his
owne
Quiristers
thither
;
in
the
rest
he
condescended
to
what
he
had
determined
,
as
after
shal
be
shewed
.
The
same
day
some
six
or
seauen
houres
after
his
receauing
,
he
demaunded
Extreme
Vnction
I
meane
,
which
he
requested
the
sooner
to
receaue
,
because
he
would
be
sure
,
he
sayd
,
not
to
be
depriued
of
it
,
or
to
take
it
when
he
should
not
know
well
what
he
did
take
;
he
was
now
in
his
perfect
senses
,
and
therfore
might
receaue
it
with
deuotion
;
as
he
did
,
and
answered
Amen
,
with
great
compunction
of
hart
at
ech
seueral
vnction
;
and
now
with
greater
serenity
of
mynd
then
before
he
expected
his
last
cal
,
and
comming
of
our
Lord
to
take
him
out
of
this
vale
of
misery
and
bring
him
where
he
might
see
,
Bona
Domini
in
terra
And
for
that
some
Sectaries
of
these
dayes
had
bruted
abroad
that
he
had
fauoured
their
cause
(
of
which
he
was
the
Andraeas
Eudaemon-Ioannes
then
present
,
that
he
would
testify
in
some
written
record
,
that
whatsoeuer
he
(
to
wit
the
Cardinall
)
had
written
or
printed
concerning
matters
of
Fayth
against
the
Heretikes
and
Heresyes
of
these
tymes
,
that
now
on
his
deathbed
,
he
did
most
resolutely
auouch
againe
,
ratify
,
and
confirme
the
same
,
&
caused
this
his
attestation
to
be
written
,
and
subscribed
by
diuers
that
were
present
,
as
by
his
two
Nephews
,
certayne
Fathers
of
the
Society
,
&
some
of
his
owne
seruants
;
and
I
doubt
not
but
the
sayd
Father
out
of
the
great
loue
and
dutifull
respect
which
he
alwayes
bare
the
Cardinall
,
will
very
willingly
discharge
this
debt
in
some
work
that
he
shall
shortly
set
foorth
,
if
his
health
doe
not
hinder
him
,
as
it
hath
done
many
others
of
his
most
commendable
,
&
profitable
endeauours
.
Being
thus
armed
for
his
last
encounter
,
and
in
great
tranquillity
and
peace
of
mynd
,
he
began
agayne
to
cast
backe
his
eyes
on
his
life
past
to
see
what
therein
might
trouble
his
conscience
,
or
breed
any
feare
in
him
at
that
straite
account
before
God
,
which
now
hourely
he
did
expect
to
be
called
vnto
:
and
after
Indeed
,
sayd
the
Cardinall
,
so
the
B.
Fa.
Ignatius
,
not
only
to
seek
the
glory
of
God
,
but
maiorem
Dei
gloriam
,
the
greater
glory
of
God
in
all
thinges
;
&
because
he
thought
that
he
might
haue
done
more
good
in
Capua
then
in
Rome
,
therfore
did
he
sorrow
,
&
had
this
remorse
.
O
noble
Bishop
,
O
zealous
mynd
,
O
rare
example
worthy
of
the
name
,
renowne
and
eminent
vertue
of
Bellarmyne
!
How
holy
was
his
life
not
stayned
with
mortall
sinne
?
How
secure
a
conscience
,
that
had
at
his
death
no
scruple
,
but
for
the
exchange
of
one
good
worke
for
another
,
and
that
imposed
vpon
him
by
an
ineuitable
commaund
?
What
shall
I
heere
say
,
but
that
fecit
mirabilia
in
vita
sua
,
he
hath
,
euen
This
scruple
being
remoued
,
and
Et
merces
eius
magna
nimis
.
When
it
was
knowne
in
the
Citty
that
the
Pope
had
beene
with
the
Cardinal
,
that
he
had
taken
his
Viaticum
,
that
he
was
anneyled
,
and
that
there
Another
tyme
the
Cardinalls
that
came
would
needs
before
they
departed
kisse
his
hands
,
at
which
he
was
much
Two
Cardinalls
aboue
the
rest
seemed
Diuers
wayes
did
this
forsayd
the
Cardinall
manifest
his
affection
vnto
Bellarmyne
which
I
heere
forbeare
;
and
when
he
with
others
,
requested
that
when
he
came
to
heauen
,
he
would
remember
Cardinall
Farnesius
was
at
this
tyme
dutifull
respect
:
come
vn
essemplare
degnissimo
d'imitatione
&c.
as
an
example
most
worthy
of
imitation
:
and
I
hope
(
sayth
he
)
not
a
little
to
be
holpen
by
the
intercession
of
that
holy
soule
,
that
I
may
a
far
of
follow
his
stepps
,
who
hath
so
much
honoured
the
whole
Church
&
sacred
Colledge
of
Cardinals
,
&
that
no
lesse
with
his
vertue
then
learning
.
So
Farnesius
,
with
more
to
the
same
effect
.
This
Cardinall
in
respect
of
the
great
obligation
the
whole
Society
hath
euer
had
to
that
name
,
which
his
owne
The
eternall
felicity
of
Saints
.
Longitudo
Operis
(
saith
he
)
&
breue
spatium
quod
mihi
superest
vitae
,
&
quotidianae
occupationes
quae
parùm
omnino
ad
scribendum
mihi
otij
relinqunt
,
effecerunt
,
vt
de
Opere
illo
perficiendo
planè
desperarem
:
the
length
of
the
worke
,
the
short
space
that
remaynes
of
my
life
,
and
my
daily
busines
which
leaues
me
very
little
leasure
to
write
,
made
me
despayre
of
euer
finishing
that
worke
.
So
he
:
and
for
that
it
pleased
Cardinall
Bellarmine
to
shew
such
singular
gratitude
to
this
his
friend
on
his
death-bed
;
&
on
the
other
side
,
for
that
Farnesiu●
is
further
resolued
to
erect
some
honourable
monument
of
him
in
the
place
where
he
is
buried
,
I
could
not
let
him
passe
vnnamed
in
this
narration
.
And
for
the
other
Cardinalls
,
they
In
fine
,
when
the
danger
of
his
disease
was
once
diuulged
ouer
all
the
Citty
,
not
only
Cardinalls
,
but
many
Bishops
,
Prelates
,
and
other
of
speciall
Honourable
is
vertue
,
and
the
root
of
all
true
honour
,
in
regard
wherof
the
auncient
Romans
built
the
Temples
of
Vertue
and
Honour
togeather
,
because
the
one
must
necessarily
depend
of
the
other
,
as
we
see
to
haue
hapned
in
this
Cardinall
whose
vertues
were
conspicuous
in
the
eyes
and
iudgement
of
all
,
as
not
only
the
good
did
deerely
prize
them
and
him
for
them
,
but
also
the
bad
did
reuerence
and
honour
them
;
in
so
much
as
hitherto
I
haue
not
heard
of
one
in
Rome
that
did
not
,
and
doth
not
honour
him
;
yea
the
wicked
Iewes
enemyes
There
was
set
forth
in
print
in
the
yeare
1614.
a
most
infamous
Libell
,
composed
(
as
is
thought
)
by
some
Sacramentary
Heretike
in
Dutch
of
the
the
death
Lewis
Coing
dwelling
in
Basil
,
a
Citty
of
the
Switzers
,
who
wrote
a
sharpe
letter
against
the
writer
thereof
,
denying
that
euer
he
printed
any
booke
,
kept
any
presse
,
or
had
any
thing
to
doe
in
setting
forth
of
that
Pamphlet
;
neuertheles
the
Caluinists
in
Dantz
(
a
towne
in
Germany
)
reprinted
the
same
againe
,
and
vrged
it
,
as
a
great
argument
for
the
truth
of
their
Ghospell
,
seeing
that
God
had
punished
the
chiefe
defendo●r
of
the
Catholike
Faith
of
our
Age
with
such
a
disastrous
and
dreadfull
death
;
and
had
he
indeed
beene
dead
,
the
lye
though
neuer
so
lowd
had
found
credit
amongst
the
Brethren
;
but
his
life
for
so
many
yeares
after
quailed
this
fable
;
though
yet
some
Merchants
of
more
fayth
then
wit
(
for
besides
their
iustifying
Fayth
,
they
haue
also
an
Historicall
)
did
constantly
affirme
and
belieue
it
to
be
true
;
wherupon
that
fell
out
which
the
Authour
aboue
named
doth
report
in
these
wordes
.
Oliuae
nonnulli
Gedanensium
Senatorum
inter
alia
quae
ante
annum
vnum
miscebant
cum
admodum
Reuerendo
Patre
Philippo
Adlero
dignissimo
Oliuensis
Monasterij
Ordinis
Sancti
Bernardi
Priore
colloquia
&c.
At
Oliue
amongst
other
Conferences
had
between
the
chiefe
Cittizens
of
Dantz
,
with
the
Reuerend
Fa.
Philip
Adler
Prior
of
the
order
of
S.
Bernard
,
they
of
Dantz
related
in
one
of
them
all
those
thinges
which
the
nameles
Authour
of
the
foresayd
Libell
doth
impudently
report
,
or
rather
with
which
he
doth
most
falsely
calumniate
the
Cardinall
.
The
Priour
denyed
all
,
affirming
that
they
were
impossible
,
&
out
of
the
great
good
will
and
affection
he
beares
thereunto
,
did
much
commend
the
Society
of
Iesus
:
on
the
other
side
they
accused
all
,
and
aboue
all
Bellarmyne
.
Whiles
they
were
in
this
debate
,
a
Iew
newly
come
out
of
Italy
arryued
thither
,
of
which
when
the
Prior
was
aduertised
,
he
called
for
him
to
come
before
them
,
and
being
come
the
Prior
spake
to
him
in
this
manner
:
hast
thou
any
newes
from
Rome
to
tell
vs
?
what
is
become
of
Cardinall
Bellarmyne
?
Is
he
aliue
or
dead
?
how
,
and
in
what
manner
doth
he
liue
?
Heere
our
Dantz
Senatours
stand
attent
,
&
expect
very
greedily
the
answere
,
which
they
thought
would
second
their
lewd
reports
;
but
contrarywise
the
Iew
affirmed
that
Bellarmyne
was
aliue
,
that
he
was
in
health
,
that
his
life
for
all
vertue
,
grauity
,
and
other
deportment
was
most
exemplar
;
that
finally
if
the
Iewes
could
see
al
Catholikes
,
or
the
greater
part
,
to
liue
as
Bellarmyne
doth
,
they
would
all
of
them
presently
become
Christians
.
With
this
narration
and
their
owne
shame
,
the
men
of
Dantz
were
not
a
little
confounded
.
And
this
haue
I
heard
from
a
most
Religious
and
sincere
man
,
a
Prior
also
of
the
same
Order
,
called
Andrew
Clewsky
,
who
was
both
an
eare
,
and
eye
witnes
of
this
matter
.
Hitherto
that
Authour
.
So
as
now
of
Bellarmines
sanctity
etiam
inimici
nostri
sint
Iudices
,
the
Iewes
themselues
may
be
Iudges
,
who
in
this
shew
themselues
to
haue
much
more
conscience
,
then
the
forenamed
Heretikes
.
The
deuotion
of
others
vnto
the
Cardinall
hath
made
me
make
the
longer
digression
from
his
owne
person
:
but
now
leauing
them
a
little
(
to
whom
eftsoones
I
shall
returne
againe
)
let
vs
a
while
contemplate
,
and
cast
our
eyes
backe
on
the
sicke
man
,
who
perceauing
in
himselfe
so
great
decay
of
strength
,
and
his
vitall
spirits
to
be
so
much
exhaust
,
prayed
more
instantly
to
be
deliuered
from
this
body
of
corruption
,
&
Carnaccia
traditora
,
perche
non
si
stacchi
?
sarria
pur
tempo
:
che
indugi
?
che
stai
à
fare
?
Treacherous
base
flesh
,
why
doest
thou
not
dissolue
and
seuer
thy selfe
from
the
soule
?
it
is
high
tyme
:
why
doest
thou
delay
?
why
doest
thou
not
dispatch
and
make
an
end
?
And
then
turning
himselfe
vnto
God
,
and
wholy
relying
on
his
mercifull
disposition
,
he
sayd
:
non
mea
voluntas
,
sed
tua
,
fiat
:
not
my
will
but
thyne
be
done
.
And
now
drawing
on
apace
to
the
last
period
of
his
life
,
he
found
more
and
more
difficulty
to
take
any
meat
,
or
keep
what
he
had
taken
:
and
he
had
not
only
a
great
repugnance
and
auersion
from
eating
,
but
a
great
loathing
and
horrour
to
see
any
thing
brought
him
.
Heere
what
should
his
attendants
doe
?
to
force
him
,
seemed
to
violent
for
one
so
weake
,
so
meeke
,
and
of
that
ranke
and
dignity
:
to
persuade
him
,
was
but
lost
labour
,
for
such
difficultyes
are
hardly
ouercome
by
persuasion
:
nothing
remayned
but
to
vrge
him
the
Phisitians
commaund
,
and
that
he
was
bound
vnder
Obedience
to
Hereat
presently
he
would
rise
,
take
and
eate
whatsoeuer
they
brought
him
,
and
that
very
readily
though
it
were
neuer
so
much
agaynst
his
stomacke
,
&
though
he
did
presently
cast
it
vp
againe
,
neuer
looking
or
respecting
what
was
giuen
him
:
and
which
is
more
strange
,
euen
when
he
was
besides
himselfe
in
the
extremity
of
his
bad
fit
,
the
very
name
of
Obedience
would
haue
made
him
taken
whatsoeuer
they
had
brought
him
:
so
accustomed
and
affectioned
he
was
to
that
Vertue
,
as
nothing
seemed
hard
vnto
him
,
that
came
vnder
that
tytle
,
imitating
therein
his
deere
maister
our
Lord
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
,
who
as
S.
Bernard
witnesseth
:
Ne
perderet
obedientiam
,
perdidit
vitam
,
lost
his
life
that
he
might
not
loose
his
obedience
:
conforme
to
that
of
the
Apostle
S.
Paul
:
factus
obediens
vsque
ad
mortem
,
he
was
obedient
euen
vntill
death
.
So
Christ
,
so
his
disciple
,
&
I
doubt
not
but
that
those
who
shall
write
his
life
(
if
more
then
one
vndertake
it
)
will
fynd
many
notable
examples
of
this
vertue
in
the
course
therof
.
This
here
I
wil
auerre
vpon
certaine
knowledge
,
that
after
his
promotion
,
he
put
himselfe
vnder
the
Obedience
of
the
Generall
of
his
Order
,
and
bound
himselfe
to
obey
him
no
lesse
then
before
in
all
thinges
of
any
moment
.
And
because
the
Rules
of
the
Society
doe
by●d
all
in
the
tyme
of
their
sicknes
,
not
The
nynteenth
day
of
his
sicknes
,
being
the
beginning
of
the
new
moone
,
his
pulse
which
hitherto
had
been
strong
began
much
to
fayle
,
and
many
other
ill
signes
appeared
which
did
euidently
prognosticate
his
departure
to
be
very
neere
at
hand
.
The
Cardinal
still
continuing
as
he
could
in
his
accustomed
deuotions
,
in
making
deuout
Colloquies
,
and
iaculatory
prayers
vnto
God
,
when
any
thing
was
suggested
vnto
him
fit
for
that
tyme
and
present
occasion
,
he
would
thanke
the
suggestours
,
and
giue
them
to
knew
Hauing
a
little
Crosse
of
siluer
in
his
hand
,
he
kissed
it
very
often
,
and
Lastly
,
I
doubt
not
but
that
he
shewed
this
zeale
to
the
holy
Crucifix
,
to
shew
his
zeale
against
the
Heretikes
of
these
tymes
,
the
true
children
of
these
parents
and
liuely
brood
of
these
Progenitours
;
that
the
world
might
see
how
exact
he
was
in
adhering
vnto
that
Faith
in
all
and
euery
branch
and
member
which
in
his
workes
he
had
so
learnedly
defended
,
and
procured
in
this
his
last
sicknes
as
before
I
said
,
to
haue
left
registred
in
print
after
his
departure
:
These
reasons
I
say
,
made
him
so
often
&
so
earnestly
to
exercise
these
acts
of
Veneration
to
the
holy
Crosse
;
which
finally
he
layed
on
his
brest
vnder
the
couerlet
where
it
remayned
till
he
was
dead
:
so
as
he
seemed
vnwilling
to
see
,
thinke
or
desire
any
thing
but
Christ
,
and
him
crucifyed
,
and
to
testify
to
the
world
the
interiour
loue
he
bare
in
his
hart
to
Christ
,
by
the
exteriour
reuerence
which
he
did
shew
to
his
picture
,
the
true
character
of
a
Catholike
Christian
man
.
Now
was
he
come
to
the
last
houre
of
his
life
,
and
though
his
paines
were
Aue
Maria
,
&
began
againe
the
Pater
noster
,
which
being
ended
he
sayd
distinctly
the
Psalme
Miserere
,
to
the
end
:
and
being
warned
to
say
also
the
Creed
,
in
protestation
of
his
beliefe
,
and
that
he
dyed
a
member
of
the
Catholik
,
Apostolike
&
Roman
Church
,
presently
he
began
the
same
,
and
sayd
it
all
through
,
and
(
which
was
much
noted
)
with
the
end
of
the
Creed
he
ended
his
speach
,
these
being
the
last
wordes
that
euer
he
spake
cleerly
and
distinctly
S.
Francis
day
,
and
dyed
on
the
feast
of
the
same
Saint
,
dedicated
to
his
sacred
woundes
,
which
miraculously
he
had
receaued
;
the
solemnity
of
which
feast
the
Cardinall
much
laboured
with
Paul
the
fifth
,
to
haue
graunted
to
the
Religious
of
that
Order
,
with
a
speciall
Office
for
that
day
.
His
body
soone
after
his
departure
by
a
secret
way
,
for
auoyding
the
resort
of
people
,
was
conueyed
in
coach
to
the
Church
of
the
Fathers
,
where
he
was
to
As
soone
as
they
began
the
same
,
many
were
present
with
to
wells
,
handkerchiffs
,
The
next
morning
the
Nobility
&
Gentry
of
the
Congregation
of
our
B.
Lady
got
his
body
into
their
Oratory
,
or
Chappell
,
where
being
all
assembled
they
sayd
the
Office
of
the
dead
for
him
,
two
Gentlemen
alwayes
standing
at
his
head
to
keep
the
multitude
from
kissing
his
beare
face
,
permitting
them
only
his
handes
and
feet
.
He
lay
on
a
fayre
hears●
,
vested
like
an
Archbishop
,
with
his
myter
and
pall
,
in
so
gratious
manner
as
I
neuer
saw
a
fayrer
corse
,
and
the
same
was
sayd
by
very
many
that
saw
him
.
The
Office
being
ended
,
the
narrownes
of
this
place
was
not
capable
of
so
great
concourse
,
&
to
auoid
the
inconvenience
of
such
presse
of
people
,
the
more
hast
was
made
to
carry
him
into
the
Church
,
where
being
layd
on
a
bed
For
they
came
not
as
ordinarily
on
such
occasions
they
vse
to
doe
,
to
gaze
,
&
see
the
pompe
of
the
funeralls
(
which
heere
was
very
litle
)
not
to
pray
for
the
party
deceased
,
not
to
enquire
of
his
heires
,
his
testament
,
his
wealth
,
his
buriall
,
or
the
like
more
curious
then
necessary
matters
;
but
to
see
as
they
called
him
,
the
Saint
,
to
pray
vnto
him
,
to
reuerence
his
body
,
and
that
in
such
sort
,
as
if
already
he
had
beene
canonized
:
&
for
that
it
was
now
placed
higher
then
they
were
able
to
reach
,
and
compassed
by
some
of
the
Popes
Guard
,
and
Mace-bearers
of
the
Cardinals
that
came
to
be
present
at
the
Dirige
,
they
wearyed
them
all
with
giuing
their
beades
vnto
them
,
which
the
one
on
the
top
of
their
truncheons
,
the
other
of
their
Masses
,
lifted
vp
to
touch
his
bare
face
;
and
so
many
beades
being
giuen
to
touch
,
and
that
so
continually
without
any
intermission
,
all
looked
or
rather
feared
that
his
face
would
haue
been
disfigured
therewith
,
for
it
was
touched
,
as
most
coniecture
by
more
then
twenty
thousand
payre
of
beades
;
and
there
had
beene
no
end
of
touching
it
,
had
not
the
Fathers
with
help
of
the
Popes
Guarde
after
more
than
three
houres
within
night
caryed
it
away
perforce
,
as
presently
shall
be
said
:
and
notwithstanding
that
the
body
lay
aloft
,
was
well
guarded
with
troncheous
and
halbardes
,
yet
were
there
of
these
pious
theeues
so
cunning
,
as
that
some
of
them
cut
away
pieces
of
his
myter
And
although
his
body
were
thus
exposed
in
more
plaine
and
positiue
manner
,
with
lesse
splendour
and
maiesty
then
is
accustomed
for
Cardinalls
:
The
multitude
being
excluded
,
the
body
was
put
into
a
plaine
coffin
of
wood
,
and
layed
in
the
ordinary
vault
Erit
sepulerum
eius
gloriosum
,
euen
his
sepulcher
shall
be
glorious
;
for
thither
now
The
Habit
,
as
the
Philosopher
sayth
,
is
best
knowne
by
his
Priuation
;
the
darke
night
makes
vs
more
to
esteem
and
valew
the
cleere
day
,
and
liberty
is
alwayes
most
gratefull
after
a
long
restraint
:
so
Bellarmines
absence
hath
made
his
vertues
more
prized
,
and
the
sense
&
feeling
which
now
all
find
in
his
want
,
makes
them
with
griefe
to
recall
to
mynde
,
what
a
treasure
they
had
whiles
they
did
enioy
him
aliue
.
The
Cardinals
haue
lost
the
prime
flower
&
brightest
starre
of
their
Colledge
,
the
Bishops
a
liuely
patterne
of
a
true
Pastour
;
the
Religious
a
perfect
example
of
imitation
;
the
learned
a
renowned
Docto●r
;
the
poore
a
Father
;
the
afflicted
a
comforter
;
the
whole
Church
an
ornament
;
and
to
renew
still
his
happy
memory
in
their
neuer
dying
affection
,
many
Cardinalls
,
Prelates
and
others
of
great
Nobility
haue
carefully
sought
,
and
alwaies
do
seeke
for
something
of
his
;
and
so
much
is
already
gotten
,
as
besides
his
body
little
or
nothing
else
is
left
.
One
Cardinall
got
his
bed
,
another
his
Missall
,
another
his
Diurnall
,
Farnesius
his
Bre●iary
.
What
others
got
eyther
during
his
sicknes
or
since
his
death
were
to
long
to
write
;
they
got
his
dublet
,
hose
,
stockings
,
caps
,
linnen
,
wollen
,
writings
,
pictures
,
shirts
,
handkerchiffs
;
and
what
else
they
could
procure
,
leauing
him
so
destitute
of
all
thinges
,
as
that
the
Fathers
of
the
Society
were
forced
after
his
death
to
cloath
him
of
their
owne
,
and
to
borrow
a
square
cap
of
an
other
Cardinall
to
put
on
his
head
(
whiles
his
body
for
a
day
and
night
lay
in
a
lower
chamber
at
the
Casa
Prosessa
)
his
clothes
and
caps
being
eyther
all
taken
or
giuen
away
before
.
And
not
in
▪
Rome
only
,
but
from
other
Son
stato
agrauato
&
questo
con
grandissima
instanza
della
Sig
●
.
Duchessa
di
Santo
Elia
molto
mia
Signora
,
&
Patrona
,
di
sarli
hauere
qualche
cosa
che
sosse
della
felice
memoria
dell
▪
Illustrissimo
Sig
●
.
Cardinale
Bellarmino
;
come
a
dire
,
qualche
berettino
di
tela
che
ildetto
haues●e
portato
,
o
qualche
parte
di
vua
sua
camisia
,
e
questo
per
la
gran
diuotione
,
che
la
detta
Signora
porta
al
morto
:
&
essendo
bisogno
,
pregarà
N.
N.
in
nome
mio
di
cooperare
quanto
sia
possibile
,
di
trouar
qualche
cosa
per
consolare
la
diuotione
di
questa
Signora
.
That
is
:
I
haue
beene
vrged
,
&
that
with
exceeding
importunity
by
the
Dutches
of
S.
Elias
,
my
very
good
Lady
and
Patronesse
,
to
procure
hersom
what
of
Cardinall
Bellarmyne
of
happy
memory
;
that
is
to
say
,
some
linnen
night-cap
which
he
hath
worne
,
or
some
piece
of
his
shirt
,
and
this
for
the
great
deuotion
the
sayd
Lady
beares
towardes
the
dead
Cardinall
.
And
if
need
be
,
you
may
intreate
N.
N.
in
my
name
to
help
as
much
as
is
possible
to
find
out
something
to
comfort
the
deuotion
of
this
Lady
.
So
he
.
And
although
that
this
letter
came
soone
after
his
death
,
yet
were
all
these
things
eyther
giuen
,
or
taken
,
or
stolne
away
ere
it
came
,
&
her
request
satisfyed
another
way
.
In
fine
,
no
man
in
Rome
of
his
ranke
in
the
memory
of
any
man
liuing
hath
dyed
with
so
generall
good
opinion
of
all
;
no
funeralls
haue
beene
celebrated
with
so
great
concourse
and
honour
;
no
sepulcher
so
much
frequented
▪
Two
and
twenty
yeares
he
liued
Cardinall
;
fourty
a
Religious
man
;
he
began
betyme
to
beare
the
yoke
of
Christ
;
was
neuer
wearyed
;
neuer
sainted
till
the
end
.
A
man
of
such
lenity
and
meeknes
,
as
he
would
offend
none
;
of
such
candour
and
sincerity
,
as
he
could
not
dissemble
with
any
;
of
such
kindnes
&
courtesy
,
as
he
was
beneuolous
vnto
all
.
Of
temporall
emoluments
he
was
neuer
moued
with
losse
,
or
delighted
with
increase
;
his
wealth
was
the
poore
mans
gaine
,
not
his
owne
profit
;
his
losse
their
hinderance
,
not
his
hurt
;
to
men
of
our
Iland
as
wel
English
and
Scottish
he
alwaies
shewed
himselfe
a
worthy
friend
and
speciall
benefactour
;
neuer
denying
them
any
thing
that
conueniently
he
could
graunt
;
neuer
sparing
his
labour
,
his
pen
,
or
purse
to
pleasure
them
as
far
foorth
as
he
was
able
;
of
which
I
could
alleadge
very
many
examples
,
were
not
that
field
to
large
,
and
this
no
place
to
recount
them
.
Of
all
which
,
and
whatsoeuer
else
he
did
,
we
may
now
say
,
Laudant
●um
in
portis
opera
eius
,
his
workes
praise
him
in
the
gates
;
that
is
,
at
the
tribunall
and
Iudgement
seat
of
God
,
where
their
worth
is
valued
,
and
their
valour
rewarded
,
and
he
in
his
euerlasting
rewardes
glorious
for
all
eternity
.
Heere
if
any
out
of
a
curious
mynd
,
should
expect
to
heare
somwhat
spoken
of
some
miraculous
euent
which
hath
Iohn
Baptist
did
sufficiently
warrant
it selfe
without
any
miracle
at
all
,
besides
his
miraculous
vertues
:
so
the
happy
life
and
death
of
this
Cardinal
being
such
as
they
were
,
need
no
other
miracles
then
themselues
for
their
proofe
.
And
to
speake
only
of
his
death
,
what
was
his
inuincible
patience
without
the
least
signe
of
sorrow
,
or
sillable
of
complaint
?
what
his
security
of
mynd
ouerbearing
all
tentations
?
what
his
purity
of
conscience
without
all
mortall
remorse
?
what
his
exact
Obedience
without
reply
?
what
his
reuerent
receauing
of
the
Blessed
Sacrament
,
his
constancy
in
faith
,
his
deuout
death
,
but
a
miracle
,
or
rather
many
miracles
in
one
?
Who
can
esteeme
otherwise
of
his
courage
agaynst
death
now
looking
him
in
the
face
,
when
he
desired
it
to
draw
neerer
,
to
take
him
away
,
then
that
it
was
miraculous
?
Vnles
he
will
contradict
the
iudgement
of
S.
Bernard
,
who
writing
of
his
brother
G
〈…〉ds
Acci●●s
sum
ad
id
miraculi
,
videre
exult
ant●m●n
mor●e
〈…〉
nem
,
insultantem
morti
.
I
was
called
to
that
miracle
,
to
see
a
man
reioying
in
death
triumphing
ouer
death
.
Truly
this
holy
Cardinall
,
as
you
haue
heard
,
so
much
reioyced
in
death
,
as
he
had
no
other
sorrow
in
his
sicknes
,
then
to
thinke
that
it
was
further
from
him
,
then
indeed
it
was
,
or
greater
ioy
,
then
when
he
was
to
shake
handes
with
it
;
the
true
effect
of
a
well
prepared
mynd
,
for
as
Seneca
sayth
:
mortem
venientem
nemo
hilarius
These
things
,
I
say
,
need
no
other
miracle
then
themselues
to
confirme
them
.
For
at
S.
Aug.
saith
of
such
a
one
as
wold
foure
hundred
years
after
Christ
see
some
Iohn
Baptist
aboue
mentioned
,
and
many
other
Saints
.
YET
for
further
confirmation
of
this
Betweene
the
sixtenth
and
seauententh
of
September
,
Cardinall
Bellarmyne
shall
go
to
heauen
,
and
as
his
Holines
testified
the
writer
of
that
letter
,
could
not
then
when
he
wrote
it
,
so
much
as
haue
heard
of
the
Cardinalls
sicknes
:
and
indeed
about
midnight
of
the
sixteenth
day
he
fell
into
his
agony
,
and
dyed
the
next
morning
.
Although
out
of
humility
the
Writer
desired
to
haue
his
name
concealed
;
yet
doth
the
thing
it selfe
speake
both
Bellarmines
sanctity
,
and
thrice
happy
end
,
and
the
singular
vertue
of
the
said
party
,
and
great
vnion
with
God
:
for
he
could
not
haue
knowne
this
but
by
reuelation
,
no
naturall
causes
to
one
so
far
absent
,
being
able
to
yield
so
exact
&
punctuall
assurance
in
so
vncertayne
a
casuality
as
is
the
life
of
man
,
which
dependeth
on
so
many
,
and
those
so
indeterminate
circumstances
,
as
are
the
meanes
by
which
it
may
be
eyther
contracted
and
cut
off
,
or
else
drawne
on
to
a
greater
length
.
This
knowledge
alone
appertayneth
vnto
him
,
from
whom
nothing
can
lye
hid
,
&
in
whose
hands
alone
are
all
our
liues
,
all
momentes
,
all
tymes
,
which
by
vs
can
be
no
more
or
lesse
knowne
,
then
it
shall
please
his
mercifull
Goodnes
to
open
and
disclose
vnto
vs
.
The
same
morning
that
the
Cardinall
departed
this
life
,
his
voyce
was
Paula
Landi
,
in
the
Monastery
of
our
B.
Ladyes
in
Campo
Martio
of
Rome
.
Thus
the
thing
fell
out
.
The
said
Paula
the
sixth
day
of
October
Casa
Professa
,
where
the
Cardirall
is
buryed
.
Since
the
former
cure
there
hath
hapned
another
,
&
that
vpon
an
Honorable
personage
,
to
wit
,
the
Lord
Riuiullo
Bishop
of
Bel-Castro
.
This
man
being
much
afflicted
with
a
payne
in
his
sides
,
that
wonderfully
molested
him
,
before
he
would
apply
any
medicine
thereunto
,
called
for
a
little
red
cap
of
silke
,
which
Bellarmyne
did
weare
vnder
his
square
cap
,
and
confiding
much
in
his
merits
and
intercession
,
touched
those
partes
that
grieued
him
therewith
,
and
incontinently
he
was
cured
,
and
fully
deliuered
from
all
payne
,
as
the
said
Honourable
Personage
hath
testifyed
and
confirmed
by
his
Oath
,
Hand
,
and
Seale
.
More
in
this
kind
I
might
write
;
but
for
that
I
haue
not
such
meanes
to
search
out
their
truth
,
as
I
thinke
is
requisite
,
ere
they
be
thus
diuulged
,
I
leaue
them
to
others
to
relate
,
who
doe
better
know
them
:
and
in
the
history
of
his
life
which
already
is
thought
vpon
they
will
I
doubt
not
be
most
faithfully
recorded
,
to
the
Glory
of
God
,
Honour
of
his
Seruant
,
and
Comfort
of
others
.
These
thinges
thus
testifyed
,
I
thought
good
to
set
downe
,
which
haue
so
soone
hapned
after
his
death
,
because
in
part
they
confirme
what
before
I
wrote
of
his
holy
life
and
saint-like
departure
.
God
graunt
vs
his
Grace
so
to
imitate
his
Vertues
,
as
we
may
shut
vp
this
our
mortall
and
fraile
life
,
with
so
happy
an
end
.
Amen
.