[6] They accepted their position with the usual Tirolese loyalty, and never attempted to found any claims to power on the circumstance of their birth.
[7] Holy Trinity Church.
[8] Patron saints against pestilence: viz. SS. Martha (because according to her legend she built a hospital and ended her life tending the sick), Sebastian (because a plague was stayed in Rome at his intercession), and Rocchus (because of the well-known legend of his self-devotion to the plague-stricken).
[9] Mentioned in the chapter on Vorarlberg, p. 23.
[10] Thirteen volumes were filled with the narrations of such ‘answers’ received between 1662 and 1665.
[11] Picture of Mary ‘Help of Christians’—Auxilium Christianorum.
[12] Inglis says that Schor was the architect of this church, and that he had assisted in building the Vatican.
[13] It is painted on panel, thirty inches by twenty-one; the figure of our Lady is three quarter-length, but appears to be sitting, as the foot of the Divine Infant seems to rest upon her knee. The tradition concerning it is, that it represents an episode of the Flight into Egypt, when, as the Holy Family rested under a palm-grove, they were overtaken by a band of robbers, headed by S. Demas, the (subsequently) penitent thief. The Holy Child is indeed represented clinging to His Mother—not as in fear, or even as if need were to suggest courage to her, but simply as if an attack sustained in common impelled a closer union of affection.
[14] See pp. 123–4.
[15] She was on her way to Rome, where she spent the rest of her life. Alexander VII. commissioned Bernini to rebuild the Porta del Popolo, and adorned it with its inscription, Felici, faustoque ingressui, in honour of her entry.