First of all, he shewed me the finger of the holy Ghost, so whole and perfect, as ever it was. Next, the nose of the Cherubin, which appeared to Saint _Frances_; with the payring of the naile of a Seraphin; and one of the ribbes of _Verbum caro_, fastened to one of the Windowes, covered with the holy garments of the Catholique Faith. Then he tooke me into a darke Chappel, where he shewed me divers beames of the Starre that appeared to the three Kings in the East. Also a Violl of Saint _Michaels_ sweate, when he combatted with the divell: And the jaw-bone of dead _Lazarus_, with many other precious things beside. And because I was liberall to him, giving him two of the Plaines of _Monte Morello_, in the Vulgare Edition, and some of the Chapters _del Caprezio_, which he had long laboured in search of; he bestowed on me some of his Reliques.
First, he gave me one of the eye-teeth of _Santa Crux_; and a little Violl, filled with some part of the sound of those Belles, which hung in the sumptuous Temple of _Salomon_. Next, he gave mee the Feather of the Phoenix, which was with _Noah_ in the Arke, as before I told you. And one of the Woodden Pattens, which the good Saint _Gerrard de Magnavilla_ used to weare in his travailes, and which I gave (not long since) to _Gerrardo di Bousy_ at _Florence_, where it is respected with much devotion. Moreover, he gave me a few of those Coales, wherewith the Phoenix of _Noah_ was roasted; all which things I brought away thence with me. Now, most true it is, that my Superiour would never suffer mee to shew them any where, untill he was faithfully certified, whether they were the same precious Reliques, or no. But perceyving by sundrie Myracles which they have wrought, and Letters of sufficient credence receyved from the reverend Patriarch, that all is true, he hath graunted me permission to shew them, and because I wold not trust any one with matters of such moment, I my selfe brought them hither with me.
Now I must tell you, that the Feather of the same Phoenix, I conveyed into a small Cabinet or Casket, because it should not be bent or broken. And the Coales wherewith the said Phoenix was roasted, I put into another Casket, in all respects so like to the former, that many times I have taken one for another. As now at this instant it hath bin my fortune: for, imagining that I brought the Casket with the feather, I mistooke my self, & brought the other with the coales. Wherein doubtles I have not offended, because I am certaine, that we of our Order do not any thing, but it is ordred by divine direction, and our blessed Patron the Lorde Baron Saint _Anthony_. And so much the rather, because about a senight hence, the Feast of Saint _Anthony_ is to bee solemnized, against the preparation whereof, and to kindle your zeale with the greater fervencie: he put the Casket with the Coales into my hand, meaning, to let you see the Feather, at some more fitting season. And therefore my blessed Sonnes and Daughters, put off your Bonnets, and come hither with devotion to looke upon them. But first let me tell you, whosoever is marked by any of these Coales, with the signe of the Crosse: he or she shall live all this yeare happily, and no fire whatsoever shall come neere to touch or hurt them. So, singing a solemne Antheme in the praise of S. _Anthony_, he unveyled the Casket, and shewed the Coales openly.