What a saint! How do we properly refer to him? St. South Wind? Surely a
better title. He could easily become part of a lecture I'm giving this fall,
Thanks, Bindy
At 11:42 PM 5/27/00 -0700, you wrote:
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>Venerable South Wind of Humility and Healer of Menstrual Pains The
>Venerable Franciscan Priest Mattheo Manzano, a Mexican; son of Mattheo
>Manzano and Maria de Sarabia, natives of the City of Toledo; professed on
>February 21st, in the year 1555, in the Convent of Our Father San
>Francisco in Mexico. He received the tenderest favors of the Lord; and
>although he communicated to his Confessors their virtues, he never wished
>them declared. For he feared the wiles of the enemy who, through
>vainglory, carries away on the North Wind the fragrance of the fruit and
>the flowers of virtue, leaving behind bitter fruit on a frozen branch. He
>sought only the meek and gentle South Wind of humility, knowing it to blow
>as God wills it, scattering fragrance as it sees fit. Came the day to pay
>his debt with death; and on Saturday the 28th of May, 1689, on the eve of
>the Pentecost of the Holy Spirit… at the moment the musicians sang
>in the Church, and the bells pealed for the Mass of the novena of Our Lady
>of the Conquest, he gave his spirit to the Lord. Multitudes gathered
>because of the fame of his virtues, and began to cut pieces of his habit;
>noticing the flexibility of his limbs, they pricked him, and gathered his
>living blood onto linens. A Woman who suffered menstrually, greatly
>debilitated, and fearful of Physicians, placed on her stomach a piece of
>this linen; and immediately was healed and comforted. It is clear that
>supernatural blood, flowing from a dead body, would have to give health to
>a living body. Other marvels occurred in his death, motivating one to
>write of his life, more to recount his fortunate death than to describe
>his fervent life.
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "" Fr. Agustin de
>Vetancurt tr. Magister Levitatorum
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