It was also the scene of a very marvelous thing.
"Here the heart of St.Philip Neri was so inflamed with divine love as to burst his ribs." I find that grave statement in a book published in New York in 1808, and written by "Rev.William H.Neligan, LL.D., M.A., Trinity College, Dublin; Member of the Archaeological Society of Great Britain." Therefore, I believe it.

Otherwise, I could not.

Under other circumstances I should have felt a curiosity to know what Philip had for dinner.
This author puts my credulity on its mettle every now and then.

He tells of one St.Joseph Calasanctius whose house in Rome he visited; he visited only the house--the priest has been dead two hundred years.

He says the Virgin Mary appeared to this saint.