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covel's diary.
care ; if he had any scruple, I advised him to go home,
which he did. I mention this passage here, because this
young man that was so extremely scrupulous, fell into
great debaucheries afterwards at Smyrna, and at last turn'd
Turk. Let the greatest Saint that thinketh he standetli,
take liccd lest lie fall.
We thence went to see Sta. Victoria, which is a convent
of Angustines. In their Church are (avaOi')ftaTa) offerings
hang'd up without number, in memory of .deliverances and
miracles wrought by that Saint, which they there call
virgo miraculosissivia. Amongst the rest is a small boat of
reeds, cover'd over with a kind of Tarpaulin, about 4 or 5
yards long, in which 7 Christians (after their prayers, I
suppose, to this Saint) escaped from captivity at Algiers
to this port. There hangs up the effigies of a child that
was raised from the dead, and a serpent of great length
(I guest it 4 or 5 yards), which had been destroy'd by
Christians in Africa, and sent hither. There is within (as
in most convents) a fair square court, cloyster'd above and
beneath; in the upper cloyster are the Brethren's cells, in
the lower the walls are hang'd with pictures, most of them
representing miracles wrought by their saints. One was
how a dish of fry'd fish, by a crosse of the Saint's finger
(I think it was the founder of their Order), revived, and
leapt down out of the dish as quick as ever they were.
Another was how he supported a stone of 100 tons weight
(that was falling upon him and his attendants) only with
his stick, or, rather, with a bullrush in his hand. My
brother Huntingdon1 and I convers't with the good Fathers
that went about with us in the Latine, and as any very
remarkable thing occurr'd we interpreted the story in
English to our company. Now it happen'd that one Panlo,
a Greek (who had been in England some time to learn our
I.e., brother clergyman.
covel's diary.
care ; if he had any scruple, I advised him to go home,
which he did. I mention this passage here, because this
young man that was so extremely scrupulous, fell into
great debaucheries afterwards at Smyrna, and at last turn'd
Turk. Let the greatest Saint that thinketh he standetli,
take liccd lest lie fall.
We thence went to see Sta. Victoria, which is a convent
of Angustines. In their Church are (avaOi')ftaTa) offerings
hang'd up without number, in memory of .deliverances and
miracles wrought by that Saint, which they there call
virgo miraculosissivia. Amongst the rest is a small boat of
reeds, cover'd over with a kind of Tarpaulin, about 4 or 5
yards long, in which 7 Christians (after their prayers, I
suppose, to this Saint) escaped from captivity at Algiers
to this port. There hangs up the effigies of a child that
was raised from the dead, and a serpent of great length
(I guest it 4 or 5 yards), which had been destroy'd by
Christians in Africa, and sent hither. There is within (as
in most convents) a fair square court, cloyster'd above and
beneath; in the upper cloyster are the Brethren's cells, in
the lower the walls are hang'd with pictures, most of them
representing miracles wrought by their saints. One was
how a dish of fry'd fish, by a crosse of the Saint's finger
(I think it was the founder of their Order), revived, and
leapt down out of the dish as quick as ever they were.
Another was how he supported a stone of 100 tons weight
(that was falling upon him and his attendants) only with
his stick, or, rather, with a bullrush in his hand. My
brother Huntingdon1 and I convers't with the good Fathers
that went about with us in the Latine, and as any very
remarkable thing occurr'd we interpreted the story in
English to our company. Now it happen'd that one Panlo,
a Greek (who had been in England some time to learn our
I.e., brother clergyman.