Category: Fragrance/Smell
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Monk of Evesham’s Vision
Date: Circa, 1196. Location: Evesham Abbey, Worcestershire England In those days a monk belonging to the convent of Evesham fell ill, and for fifteen months he was terribly afflicted with bodily pain. Food and drink made him so nauseous that sometimes he would take nothing but the smallest drop of cold water for nine days…
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Vision of Tundale
Date: Circa, 1149. Location: Cork, Ireland. As many inhabitants of the city of Cork, who were present then, may testify, he lay dead for three days and three nights; and later he spoke bitterly of all that he suffered during this period because of his previous easy carelessness, as his present life bore witness. For…
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The Vision of Drythelm
Date: Circa 696 – 699 A.D. Location: Cunningham, Northumbria (Modern day Northern England and Sourthern Scotland) About this time, a noteworthy miracle, like those of olden days, occurred in Britian. For, in order to arouse the living from spiritual death, a man already dead returned to bodily life and related many noteable things that he…
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The Soldier (via Gregory the Great)
Date: Prior to 590 A.D. Location: Undetermined. Most likely in the Middle East. Continued from Stephen At that time a certain soldier was also brought to the point of death. In a similar way his soul was carried out of his body, so that he lay void of any sense of feeling. But he quickly…
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Vision of St. Peter (St. Peter’s Apocalypse)
Date: Circa, 2nd Century A.D. Location: Undetermined, possibly Egypt or Palestine. And my Lord Jesus Christ our king said to me, “Let us go to the holy mountain.” And his disciples went with him praying. There were two men there, and we could not look on their faces, for a light came from them shining…
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Thespesius of Soli
Date: During or before 1st century A.D. Location: Soli—Modern day Mezitli, Turkey. Then I spoke as follows:—The Solian, Thespesius, an associate and friend of that Protogenes who was here with us, having led a very dissipated life in his youth, and in a short time squandering his property, for a while on account of his impoverished condition…
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