Excerpt from Acta Capitulorum Generalium, Vol. 6: Ordinis Praedicatorum, Ab Anno 1601 Usque Ad Annum 1628
Non aliter quidem videtur nostro contigisse ordini, quando a manu summi opificis prodiit confiata terra, sanctorum ferax, omniumque vir tutum perfoecurida generatrix, adeo ut sicubi infoecunda et sterilissibi que dissimilis aliquibus videatur, ibi tamen multarum vìrtutum'germina semper alat. Quis non miretur initia alta radicesque profunda5 fructus que perdulces nostrae religionis? Quando visus est Deus dicere: Pro ducat terra herbam virentem qua virtute, qua foecunditate, qua prom ptitudine mandatis obtemperavit divinis? Ibi conspexisses inter medium montium pertranseuntes'aquas Deumque emittentem fontes in convalli bus, doctores scilicet nostros humillimos, primum prot0parentem bea tissimum Dominicum, d. Thomam, b. Albertum Magnum ac alios inter montes antiquorum patrum, et ex ipsis crystallinas derivantes aquas po pulisque pr0pinantes in convallibus humilitatis, humillime de se sentiendo conversantes; ibi excelsos montes refugia cervorum vidisses; innumeros, inquam, exercitus Inquisitorum, qui nec laboribus parcentes nec propriae consulentes vitae, sanguine proprio fidei vexilla veluti roseo colore tin gentes, haereticorum rabiem fugientibus sese petras refugii exhibebant; ibi vastissimos campos variarum arborum, mirabilium herbarum, ingen tium pascuarum multitudine concitos fuisses contemplatus, videlicet Hya cinthos, Raymundos, Antoninos, Vincentios innumerosque alios, qui pa scentes gregem Domini doctrinis caelestibus, eorum corpora et animos infinitis affecerunt beneficiis; ab his illuminatio coecorum, gressus clau dorum, effugatio daemonum, verborum loquela, mundicies a lepra, con culcatio undarum, compressio impetus ignis, ai: demum resurrectio mor tuorum facillime sperabatur nec frustrata spe. Tanta denique ista sancta terra sanctorum congerie sese videbat circumamictam, ut cum pr0pheta posset cantare Gaudens gaudebo in Domino et exultabit anima mea in Deo meo, quia induit me vestimentis salutis et indumento iustitiae circundedit me, quasi sponsum decoratum corona et quasi sponsam or natam monilibus suis sicut enim terra profert germen suum et sicut hortus semen suum germinat, sic Dominus Deus germinabit iustitiam et laudem coram universis gentibus.
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