pain disappeared immediately: she who had come in much pain and suffering, returned in perfect health, and with joy and gratitude, ran to Friar Thomas and related to him what had occurred; the latter took note of it, and from his manuscripts I extracted what I have just narrated.
When the Sovereign Pontiff, Gregory XI., quitted his abode in Avignon to return to Rome, Catherine arrived at Genes, before him, and remained there to meet him. Two young persons from Sienna accompanied us; they were very pious, and are still living. The first was called Neri de Landoccio of Pagliaresi: he despised the world and its vanities and sanctified himself in solitude; the other was Etienne Corrade of Maconi: Catherine, when leaving this exile to soar to heaven, ordered him to enter the order of the Carthusians, and the grace of God so truly accompanied him, that he now directs a great portion of his Order, by his visits, teaching and example. He was successively placed at the head of several monasteries, and is now Prior of the Chartreuse of Milan. They were witnesses, as myself, of the greater number of miracles related in this second part; but in the city of Genes the divine power was manifested in regard to themselves, by means of the blessed Catherine.
While we were there, Neri was taken with an acute pain, which caused him much suffering and inconvenienced us greatly; he could neither walk nor yet be in bed; he crawled about on his hands and knees in the apartment, where other persons slept, and this irritated his pains, instead of soothing them, and an inflammation ensued.
Catherine having heard it, appeared to be moved to pity, and desired me to have physicians called and proper remedies given him: I obeyed promptly, inviting two
