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met some loaded asses descending towards the town: and the way being very narrow, and the priest not being able to get past them, and fearing to be overturned by those beasts, he spoke to them according to his simplicity in this manner: My asses! what do you mean? Do ye not see him whom I carry? Go aside and stop to make room for your Creator, which I command you in his name. O admirable obedience! Those asses which used not to stir but when they were beaten, presently went to one side, where the hill was more steep, without apprehending any danger, or letting fall their load. The town of Colen remembers this wonder to this day, and mentioneth it with astonishment.
In the 16th century, within the Venetian territories, a priest carrying the holy host, without pomp or train, to a sick person, he met, out of the town, asses going to their pasture; who perceiving by a certain sentiment, what it was which the priest carried, they divided themselves into two companies on each side of the way, and fell on their knees Whereupon the priest, with his clerk, all amazed, passed between those peaceable beasts, which then rose up, as if they would make a pompous show in honour of their Creator; followed the priest as far as the sick man's house, where they waited at the door till the priest came out from it, and did not leave him till he had given them his blessing Father Simon Rodriguez, one of the first companions of St. Ignatius, who then travelled in Italy, informed himself carefully of this matter, which happened a little while
