Synopsis of Events from the Creation of the World

...that if health were restored to him, he would go as a pilgrim to Passau A city in Bavaria, famous for the Mariahilf ("Mary of Help") pilgrimage site. to visit the Blessed Virgin Helper, (whose feast of the Nativity The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on September 8th. was being celebrated that day), provided it was pleasing to GOD, and that the restoration of bodily health would serve the greater benefit of his soul. And what is full of wonder: he was urged to this by his heretical wife In the context of the 17th century, "heretical" refers to her being Protestant, likely Lutheran, as Besold himself was a famous convert to Catholicism., who presented him with a little book filled with the most recent miracles, which he constantly held in his hands. She herself also, with singular piety in honor of the MOTHER OF GOD original: "DEIPARAE", the Latin equivalent of the Greek Theotokos, or God-bearer., bestowed a generous offering. But the Mother of Mercy preferred to repay the affection of her son (as this venerable old man had recently professed himself to be, using a solemn formula in a large gathering of young men) with a better gift than he had asked for: to grant him the salvation of his soul, by which he might travel to visit her in heaven, and perhaps to wash away any remaining stains of sin through this slight illness.

September 10th.

Therefore, so that human remedies might also be joined to the divine ones already mentioned, along with the Noble and Most Famous Doctor Hoefer, Doctor Ernest was also summoned from Landshut.

September 11th.

The aforementioned Master Hoefer, in the con-