ON BLESSED ANDREW,
OF THE ORDER OF HERMITS OF ST. AUGUSTINE.
AT MONTE-REGALE ON THE CONFINES OF UMBRIA AND ABRUZZO.
IN THE YEAR 1479.
PrefaceAndrew of Monte-Regale, of the Order of the Hermits of St. Augustine in Abruzzo (B.)
D. P.
Ambrose Coriolanus or Coranus (for by both names he is called by the writers) Prior General of the Order of the Hermits, elected at Rome in the year 1477, and there discharging his office and life in the year 1487 of the same century, The year of death in part 2 of his Chronicle according to Herrera and others writes thus for the year 1479: "Blessed Andrew of Monte-Regale shone in our times with many most evident signs and miracles: in Canon Law, Philosophy, and Theology most learned: in admonishing, in counseling the poor, in enduring injuries and all patience he showed the greatest example of sanctity." Indeed the year 1480, as the year of death of this Blessed, is noted in the Epitaph or inscription placed under his marble image: but that number seems altogether to have been taken from the autograph instrument of miracles, in which according to the Notarial style of that time, how is it said to be 1480? in use in Umbria and Etruria, as we have already elsewhere observed this month, the beginning of the common year is preceded by nine entire months, as taking the beginning of numbers from the day of the Annunciation or Incarnation of the Lord. But since the Saint died on the Octave day of Easter, which in the year 1479 of that century was celebrated on April 11, which day? it is fitting that, wishing to affix the anniversary of his, which otherwise is movable, to some certain day, we should take April 18. There is one indeed who marks the 10th day before the Kalends of May, as the death day of the Blessed man; but I know not what he followed, since the year 1480 of the century which he assumes had the Sunday in albis not on the 10th day before the Kalends of May, but on the 5th day before the Ides of April.
[2] The Life published in the year 1580, The Life first came out printed at Perugia in the year 1580 at Andrea Brescian, with Sanctius Riccetelli as author, which Nicholas Beatillus, Priest of our Society, formerly had, and sent to his old friend John Bolland an MS. epitome excerpted from it. It would have been much more pleasing to receive the very work: and therefore we had it sought for at Perugia and elsewhere, and we received it through the labor of our Penitentiaries of Loreto, Hector of Albada and Christopher Grinus: but reprinted in the year 1614 at Pisa at John Fontana, by Angelus Carezzanus of Tortona, with the approbation of Baptista of Asti, then General. with more recent writers omitted, Simplicianus a S. Martino, in the Lives of Saints of his Order, published at Toulouse in the year 1641, from it professes to have received what he writes. Simplicianus was used by Cornelius Dielman, who at Ghent in the year 1648 published in 8vo a Norm of monastic Life, delineated in some Men of the Order of the Friars Hermits of St. Augustine illustrious for knowledge and sanctity of life: The Life is given in Latin. whence we, because he wrote in Latin, had prepared the Life received from him for the press, with additions from Simplicianus in the Analecta, and our annotations according to custom: but having obtained the whole history from an older original Italian, with Dielman omitted, we have preferred to render it into Latin. But in doing this, we have learned that in the Archive of the convent itself there is still preserved a public instrument concerning twenty-seven miracles, performed within the first month from the Blessed's death, offered for obtaining canonization to Pope Sixtus IV, who survived Blessed Andrew only four years. So we have written again for an exemplar of those and other later ones, an instrument concerning the miracles is desired. if the memory of such is also extant. But the reply was that the Process is in the hands of the Most Illustrious Lord Anthony Maria Ricci, whose father long labored in the cause of the Beatification of the said holy man; but prevented by death he obtained only this, that he should be raised more highly. With him afterwards often and insistently it has been acted, both by the R. Father Prior of the Augustinians Charles Mevius, and by two of our Fathers who had gone there for the sake of Missions; but nothing could be obtained from the man, not sufficiently understanding how little the undiscriminating custody of monuments befits the duty left him by his father — not entrusted for any other purpose, than that the sanctity of Blessed Andrew might be made more known to the universal Church, and his cult and honor promoted. Yet we do not yet put aside the hope at least for the Supplement of this work of obtaining an exemplar, and if ever it should happen that he falls upon the reading of these volumes, we think he will willingly send of his own accord what now asked he imprudently refused.
[3] Joseph Pamphilus, Bishop of Segni, in the Chronicle of the Order printed at Rome in the year 1581, has these things for the year 1484: "Andrew of Monte-Regale, an Umbrian, a Theologian, and not moderately learned in the Pontifical law, led a life illustrious with signs of miracles: The state of the incorrupt body whose body, with the garment with which it is covered, still exists as though he had been deceased at this very hour." They are followed by Herrera in the Alphabet, Creusenius and other writers of the Order, after the author of the Life; who, treating of the monument of Master Sanctius Alexius, erected by himself, indicates that within the choir of the Religious the chapel of Blessed Andrew himself is proper. But what is here called Monte-Regale and is commonly so called even today, in the maps both of Umbria and of Abruzzo (for to this it pertains, and is situated on the borders of the latter) is named Città-Regale, the situation of the town on the way almost midway between Rieti and Ascoli, and distant by an interval of about twelve miles from the city of Aquila, neighboring it to the south-west, and has in its district the village of Masciuni, which was the homeland of the Blessed himself.
LIFE
From the Italian of Sanctius Ricetelli.
Andrew of Monte-Regale, of the Order of the Hermits of St. Augustine in Abruzzo (B.)
FROM THE ITAL. OF RICCETELLI.
CHAPTER I.
History of his life led in the Augustinian Order.
[1] In a certain small town of Monte-Regale, called Masciuni, from upright and pious parents Andrew was born in the year of Christ 1397, under the Pontificate of Boniface IX, and in a slender fortune, From pasturing sheep which to the boy
his father assigned to pasturing a small flock. But a desire for a better life, to which he was from eternity destined, divine Majesty opened a way for him, by taking care that a certain Father of the Order of St. Augustine, then Prior in this our monastery, called Augustine of Terni, should meet him: at whose knees falling down he said: "Let it please you, I beseech, Father, to make me a Brother of that habit which you wear; and I promise you, that with God's grace I will exactly observe the Rule of our holy Father Augustine." At these words the Prior, moved, whether because he saw such nobility in the boy, having passed to the Augustinian order, or because he was inwardly moved by God, who had caused him and the other to meet, took Andrew with him in the year 1411; in the time of that calamitous schism, in which the Church of God was wavering among three so-called Pontiffs, John XXIV, Gregory XII, and Benedict XIII, as one who was to dispel the darkness of errors, and to uproot the schisms sown by the prince of darkness in the field of the highest Father of the family.
[2] after distinguished progress in letters and virtue, He was in the fourteenth year of his age, when clothed in the sacred Eremitical habit, he began with the highest diligence to devote himself to the studies of letters and virtues alike; fasting three days a week on bread and water, namely Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, and in a short time he obtained a certain name of sanctity and learning among his contemporaries. Afterwards about the year of Christ 1421, which was the fifth of Martin V, when he was in the twenty-fifth year of his age, he was ordained Priest; and at length in the year of the Lord 1430, the last of the same Martin V, he becomes a Doctor of Theology, (in which very year the said Pontiff granted the Order the body of the glorious mother Monica, to be transferred from Ostia to Rome) in the General Chapter of Montpellier, by the consent of Master Augustine the Roman, then General, and the Definitory Fathers, he was created Doctor and Master in sacred Theology, being in the 33rd year. But so much did the fame of his learning and virtue advance among the Fathers of our Order, that in the Chapter of Rieti of the year 1444, with Eugene IV sitting in the 8th year, and Provincial of Umbria. by the common vote of all he was made Provincial of Umbria, and Definitor for the Chapter which was to be celebrated at Avignon, but afterwards transferred to Bourges, and there it was celebrated in the year 1445, when he himself was 47 years old.
[3] he leads a holy life. He preached the word of God for the salvation of souls, with great efficacy; not only in Italy, but also in France, for fifty continuous years. Clothed with a great and harsh hair shirt of horse hair over his bare flesh, he had his loins girded with an iron circle, and neither by day nor by night did he put it away from himself. On as many nights he raged against his body with sharp scourges, and struck his breast with a hard stone, nor did he sleep except upon a straw sack, propping his head with a stone: but the greater part of day and night he spent in the church intent on prayer. And indeed he divided all his time in praying, preaching, teaching, or otherwise helping his neighbor: whence it came about that, with the rumor of his holiness spread abroad, an almost infinite people ran to him, asking and reporting help and solace.
[4] He was never seen either to go to spectacles or seen laughing. he has the spirit of prophecy, Those stubborn in evil he terrified with his authority, and received the penitent lovingly and kindly. That he was endowed also with the prophetic spirit appeared: for the day and hour of his death he foretold; and turning to the Fathers standing around he attested, saying: "Preserve all my books and writings: for shortly there will come after me a certain one, who will be an ark of sciences." Which the event proved: for about thirty years after he had been aggregated to the Order, R. P. Master Sanctius Alexius; who was truly such in learning as the Blessed had foretold; and deserved a special monument in our church, having died in the year 1561.
[5] and he dies piously. Further, the Blessed full of merits began to be sick, and religiously fortified with the Sacraments of the Church, on the seventh day of his infirmity, which was the octave day of Easter, gave a distinguished sermon to the Fathers standing around, exhorting them to the observance of the Christian life and of the Augustinian rule. Then with weeping eyes he recited the seven Penitential Psalms; and with these finished he gave up his spirit, pronouncing these words: "In peace in the same I will sleep and rest"; in the year of the Lord 1480, of Sixtus the Fourth the 9th year, of his own age the 83rd. But our elders say, they have heard from those who were present at his death, that at his departure angelic songs were heard, and the bells, with no one moving them, gave a sound by themselves for twenty-four whole continuous hours.
[6] The body of the deceased for thirty days stood exposed to public veneration in the church, the body unburied for more than 30 days, embalmed with no balsam: and yet always of sound odor and lively color, it stirred not only the wonder of those running up, but also shone with miracles. Afterwards it was placed in an iron chest in a certain chapel of the choir. But in the year 1568, and in the year 1568 translated. that it might be more conveniently seen by all, it was transferred to another chest and placed under the main altar, where it can even now be seen, as intact as on the first day from death: although now a hundred years have passed. Twice a year it is shown to the people flowing in great numbers, namely on the octave day of Easter and on the feast day of St. Jerome at the end of the month of September.
[7] The relics of his garments, His tunic is preserved and shown as a Relic in the land of Vissi. His hair shirt, brought to the sick and possessed, works wonders: whence it came about that from it not only to almost all the cities of Italy, but also to Lisbon itself, the metropolis of Portugal, particles have been brought, and only the chest part has remained with us intact with difficulty. His image is seen painted at Bologna, Perugia, Padua, and the images, Venice, and in many other places, but especially at Monte-Regale before the front of the church of St. Mary in the forum, and in the choir of our church, with the greater part of the miracles painted around it and with this epitaph: "Here rests intact the body of Blessed Andrew, of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine of Monte-Regale, great and innumerable miracles daily at hand: who by the sanctity of life, with a eulogy, asperity of body, Catholic doctrine and honeyed preaching, and the greatness of miracles, shining in all the cities of Italy and the Gauls, beloved of God and men, for the honor of Religion, the ornament of his homeland, the utility of his neighbor, and for the age preaching the Word of God for fifty continuous years, was and is of great help. He died in the year of the Lord 1480, in the 83rd year of his age."
NOTES.
CHAPTER II.
27 miracles, noted within the first month from his death.
[8] On April 23, while the body of the deceased stood on his bier to be gazed upon, the dead man with arm lifted blesses his devotee. a certain devout woman, called Martomima Capacchii, Tertiary of the Order of St. Francis, standing beside the holy body with many other men and women, greatly grieved that she had never confessed her sins to him, although by inward impulse she had often felt herself led to this. And so with weeping eyes, asking pardon of this negligence from the deceased, and praying him to obtain the remission of her sins from God, she approached to kiss his feet. When behold, with all looking on, the dead man seemed to raise his arm, and in his accustomed manner to bless his suppliant. Without delay: as many as were present published the miracle, crying out, "Mercy, mercy."
[9] he heals a longstanding pain, This cry, sounding through the whole town, reached the ears of a certain citizen. His name was Joannellus: who, asking the cause of the cry from his wife, and understanding that it was moved on account of the miracle which at that very hour Blessed Andrew had done; he himself who was afflicted with a longstanding torment, with great tenderness of mind turning to the Blessed, said: "Ah, glorious Saint, pray God for me: and I promise that I will go to visit your body, and offer to it a wax image." He said, and freed from every evil suddenly, as he was, rising from the bed, barefoot and covered only with his shirt, he came to the church together with his wife, crying out: "Mercy, mercy."
[10] On April 26, at Mariniano, one of our small towns,
to a certain woman Sanctia Nicolai of Cascia, spinning thread, the injured hand, the needle of her spindle was so driven into her right hand, that she was in peril not only of losing the use of that hand, but even of her life, in the judgment of Lord Ludovic de Augustinis, a most expert physician. For, from the injury of the nerves and bones meeting in that part, pains and convulsions born from there increased continually. But as she, amid such torments, turned her eyes to heaven, her mind to the Blessed, and invoked his name; in a moment she was restored to health.
[11] weak eyes, Julian de Impaccia of Mariniano had long lain sick and was much diminished in sight, whose remains the disease was grinding more and more, so that he was now almost blind: but on the same day on which the aforesaid woman was cured, hearing of this and other miracles performed, he asked some of his relatives to lead him to the church, where the sacred body stood exposed. Soon, as he fixed a kiss on the feet of the Blessed, he began to see both far and near as one who sees best: and thanks were rendered to God by all those standing around.
[12] he punishes one detracting from him, On the same day passing through the church of St. Augustine, Lucian Matthaei de Verrico, one of the four Priors of our town, seeing the great crowd of the common people around the deceased, said contemptuously: "Why do you gather around this body: was he not a man equally with us? Why then is he not buried?" But on the following night lying in bed, he was snatched outside it by evil spirits and miserably handled, he called to memory what on the preceding day he had spouted against the honor paid to the Blessed: and with true penitence turning to the same, and he frees the penitent. he had him appearing to him: who having driven away the demons by his presence, led him back by the hand taken up to his bed, and consoled him with most sweet words. But early in the morning he came to visit the body, and crying "Mercy, mercy" before more than a hundred witnesses he narrated whatever had happened to him that night.
[13] With the fame of the miracles multiplying at the sepulcher of the Blessed spread abroad, he heals a withered arm of one, it stirred a certain woman of Albania to seek a remedy there for her right arm, whose use she had lost. The name of the woman was Clara Gentilis. She came: and with her prayer made, she began to move and extend her arm, useless till then, as if she had suffered no discomfort ever.
[14] and of another; On the following day, which was April 29 of the aforesaid month, Jacob Damiani de Saviniano came to the sepulcher with a wax arm; which he had promised he would offer, that similarly he might recover the lost use of his right arm, and he asserted that he was made partaker of his vow at the very entrance of our church. Marianus Prosperi de Colle, from the very beginning of his birth blind in one eye, a one-eyed boy afflicted his father with no light grief: by whom as soon as he was led to the church of St. Augustine to honor Blessed Andrew's body, his dull pupil began to be illumined, equally as, and more than, the left; and this happened on the last day of April.
[15] On May 5, in a certain conflict against the Sgherri, Santillus, from the county of Acumoli, was caught, and received from one of those enemies of his a wound so copious in the left arm, one gravely wounded in the arm, injured by the blow of a knife, that no means was found of stopping the blood copiously flowing. Admonished therefore to invoke Blessed Andrew of Monte-regale, whose fame had begun to be most celebrated throughout all Abruzzo, he devoted himself to him; and soon seized by sleep, he seemed to see the Blessed himself, who imprinting the sign of the Cross upon the injured arm, not only stopped the blood, but restored full health.
[16] an energumen, Petruccia Nicolai, possessed by evil spirits, was brought by her relatives to the presence of the sacred body: and the impure ones, unable to endure the power going out from it, before all the multitude were compelled to leave the dwelling they occupied, and to depart with great stench.
[17] an arthritic woman On the same day in several members was healed Marinuccia Cervelli de Saviniano: who was not only deprived of their use by arthritic pains, but even had lost the hope of longer life in the judgment of the physicians. But a vow made by her relatives on her behalf brought health to the wretched woman, and amplified the glory of the Blessed.
[18] a man suffering in head and eyes, On the same day Sanctes Buccii, from Labia, of the county of Monte-regale, confessed that by a vow made to the Blessed he had been freed from all trouble, which a vehement pain of the head had brought for five continuous years, with almost the total loss of sight, which thereafter he had clear and unhindered.
[19] a shin ill affected, Christopher Benedicti, a citizen of Rieti, for ten continuous years had suffered certain cold and painful humors, so that he was compelled to drag one of his shins behind him as he walked: but having heard the miracles of the Blessed, he ordered a horse to be sought for him with which to come to Monte-regale, and having arrived there on the twentieth day of April, he received health, as soon as he gave a kiss to the sacred feet.
[20] On the fourth day of the month of May Lady Antonella Marini, of Aglione of the county of Monte-regale, a woman weakened in her whole body, having suffered great pains in her whole body for a whole year, so much so that she could neither dress herself nor undress, nor even make two steps in walking, vowing that as soon as she recovered her health she would go to visit the body of the Blessed; she was received soon as she had spoken the words: and rising from bed, at once presented herself as bound by her vow.
[21] On the same day a great and memorable miracle happened in Nicholas Spechioli de Mariniano, a pleuritic man, whom an incurable pleurisy had reduced to such a state, that with the Parish priest having read the commendations of the soul, it was believed that he was about to expire. But when his tearful parents had commended him to Blessed Andrew, soon opening his eyes, now closed in nearby death; with cheerful smile he looked at those grieving, and said that in those straits the Blessed had appeared to him, and had taken away all pains: which words were received by the common cry of those standing by, doubling "Mercy, mercy."
[22] fistulous breasts, On the sixth day of the aforesaid month Lady Pascha, of Cagnano of the county of Aquila, having breasts so swollen and fistulous, that not only could she not nurse her son, but on account of frequent spasms and convulsions was almost despairing of life; as soon as she devoted herself to the Blessed, she and her son received timely relief.
[23] one lying with an incurable disease, On the following, that is, the seventh day, Peter Colucciae of Marano, of the county of Monte-regale, lying from a long and incurable disease, promised that he would go barefoot to the body of the Blessed if he should recover; and suddenly healed he leapt from bed, and accompanied by all the inhabitants of the whole town, fulfilled his vow.
[24] Stephen, a noble of Albania, but dwelling at Ascoli, suffering long torments of the head with perpetual ringing in the ears, one wasting from pain of the head, was brought to this state, that with the faculties of hearing, seeing, and resting lost, he presented more the aspect of a dead man than a living one, to those considering his face. But when on May 10 with his companions accompanying him he came to the body of the blessed man, and devoted himself to him, at once color returned to his face, and all dullness of the senses, with the pain of the head driven out, departed.
[25] The wretched son of Bartholomew Bucciarelli, of the county of Mopolino, had his whole body infected with leprosy, a leprous boy, from the soles to the crown, so that his horrible appearance alienated not only strangers but also his household. But his father, on the 13th day of the aforementioned month, conceived firm hope of obtaining health for his son through the merits of Blessed Andrew, and vowed to lead him to his body: and at that very instant he saw the boy's flesh cleansed and restored, as though he had suffered nothing evil.
[26] At the same time at which the earlier things happened, Nicholas Petrucilli of Fanum was wholly deaf: a deaf man, and led by his own to the body of Blessed Andrew, suddenly with his ears opened he began to hear as wholly as anyone. On the 21st day of the aforesaid month brought to the presence of the sacred body, another taken by an unknown disease, Bernardinus Mei, of Pizzolo of the county of Aquila, as best could be borne, recovered before all from a certain unheard-of infirmity, which, shaking all his bones, made them resound like nuts.
[27] At the same time Lady Justa Petri Pauli de Paganica, one with maimed right hand, from Forcone of the county of Aquila, who had lost the use of her right hand, as soon as she heard the miracles of Blessed Andrew narrated, did not wish to interpose any delay, not even a little one to return to her house: but immediately came to Monte-regale, asking for the restoration of her hand before the holy body, and deserved at once to be heard.
[28] Lady Pina Dominici, of the castle of St. Mary of the county of Norcia, was held so bound by sorceries, a woman vexed by maleficium; that on the first day of every month she was agitated in every way like a demoniac; her eyes flashing, her mouth foaming, her face and neck swelling, her voice wailing, and rolling on the ground. She had suffered thus for thirty years, when it came into her mind with a vow made to visit the body of the Blessed: she did, and from then on was free.
[29] a woman laboring with headache, In the same month of May Lady Gentiluccia, of John Dominici de Verrico, of the county of Monte-regale, having suffered a continuous pain of head for a whole year, and finding no means by which she might receive even a little remission of the evil; turned to making a vow to the Blessed, and was immediately heard.
[30] A certain great and long infirmity, which Sanctes, son of John Paschini of Aquila, had suffered, had so dismissed him for the past two years, that it had left him deprived of the use of his left arm. This one therefore, as soon as he heard the talk of the Blessed Andrew's miracles growing, ran to the holy body, prayed, and brought back the desired grace.
[31] On the same day on which this one was healed, Lord Nicholas Benedicti of Assisi, one who had drunk poison, whom the most expert physician Master Dominic of Camerino had pronounced incurable from poison drunk, both because already the whole skin was beginning to flow off with its native color lost, and because the deadly virus was now approaching his heart, and was drawing him to swift death; yet by a vow made to the Blessed earned remedy and life, and suddenly recovered.
[32] Finally on May 23, Lady Antonella Montanara de Verrico, devoting herself wholeheartedly to the same Blessed, with the astonishment of all present in the church, recovered the light of her right eye, of which she had been utterly deprived for wholly six years.
NOTES.
CHAPTER III.
The author's Epilogue and Appendix on more recent miracles.
[33] Public instruments about these miracles, These twenty-seven miracles, orderly described by me, happened within those thirty days in which the body of the deceased stood exposed to public veneration in our church; with the inhabitants of neighboring and distant places flowing together: concerning all of which miracles one by one, by the mandate of our magnificent University and of our reverend monastery, a public instrument was drawn up, by the distinguished Notary Jacob de Laurentiis of Monte-regale, before Jacob Anthony Santis, Alexander Rentii, Nardo the Notary of Gabriel, Judges deputed for contracts, with the subscription of witnesses, who were present when the miracles themselves were done. Which public instruments, described on parchment by the same Notary, offered to Sixtus IV, with the subscriptions of the said Judges and witnesses, were sent from our Magnificent University to Rome to our Holy Lord Pope Sixtus IV, for this purpose, that with regard to such evident signs he should deign to inscribe Andrew in the catalogue of Saints. But since His Holiness at that time was hindered by most grave business of the Church, he could not attend his mind to this matter; and with him dying the original remained in the Pontifical Chancery: where when the Bishop of Telese of happy memory, the most Rev. P. Master Cherubinus of Cascia, had found it, he brought it back to Monte-regale in the year 1560: are had, where it is preserved in the archive, so that it can be shown to anyone desiring to inspect and read it.
[34] other infinite things are passed over in silence. The same Blessed and glorious Andrew did almost infinite other miracles, and still does daily; not only in this our town, but in all those places in which his name is celebrated; which if I wished to relate all, instead of the small tract which I undertook to write, a huge volume would be born. Yet I am compelled to add two more, because they happened with me present along with many others.
[35] a paralytic boy is cured. In the year 1559, on the 3rd day of April, John Vincentii Paulucii, of Monte-Regale, was found through a grave disease of two years weakened in all his members, and with the use of his shins wholly shut off, so that he could neither stand nor walk. But the evil was not only beyond hope of remedy in the judgment of the physicians, but was daily growing worse, when the boy's mother and father, Vincent and Martha, remembered Blessed Andrew, and brought the little one to the chest of his body, vowing that he should be clothed in white in memory of the benefit, if they should deserve to bring him back sound. No sooner said than done. The boy suddenly stood upright on his feet, and all the people present cried out, "Mercy, mercy," when they saw the boy returning home on his own feet.
[36] The hammer of the bell falls without harm. On the same day, on which the already-mentioned boy so in a moment recovered, and through the whole church and town "A miracle, a miracle" was heard; when to us younger Brothers, who were then four in number, for ringing the bells, a great multitude of boys ran together, and filled the whole place beneath the bell-tower. When behold, the hammer of the bell, coming loose, is carried down like a thunderbolt, shattering whatever was in its way; and among us four it falls so in the middle, that it would have killed two of us, if it had bent ever so little to the other side: but what was even more marvelous, so many fragments of wood, boards, and bricks, as must necessarily accompany such a ruin, all clung to the last vault nearest to us: and so we all departed unharmed, renewing with greater fervor the cries already begun, "Mercy, mercy."
April II: 19. April
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