Post #5850

Maffei reports some supernatural phenomena that accompanied the election of St. Pius V. Here are some of them. Having been made, purely by God, the election of the Holy Pontiff Pius V, it is not surprising that extraordinary signs preceded and followed him. She was revealed to St. Philip Neri, in whose Life we read that during the Conclave, and in time that nothing of the Alexandrian was thought of even by the Cardinals, he was distinctly heard one night saying: Bro Michele Cardinal Alessandrino will be made Pope. He was very seriously ill in the Conclave, and Cardinal Gonzaga was reduced to the last of his life. Suddenly awakened the night before the election, he called his Conclavists, and was angry with them because they had not warned him of the exaltation to the Pontificate of Cardinal Alessandrino, and as soon as he had said these words, he passed to better life […] On election day, a blood-coloured comet appeared over the City of London, where Queen Lisabetta was persecuting Catholics. She threw out a terrifying fire and saw a hand coming out of a cloud at her tail, holding the sword, which was interpreted to be that of the excommunication, which the Holy Pope launched against that heretical Princess.