Diatribe de Prodigiosis Crucibus

of the Crosses, from which only those were liberated who betook themselves to the Church of Saint Mary in Paris. Thus Luitprandus and Leo Ostiensis in their Chronicles.

In the year of Christ 958, the 22nd year of the reign of Otto the Great, Emperor, Crosses appeared upon the garments of men, and the garments of many appeared as if sprinkled and stained with the corrupt matter of leprosy and ringworm. At this spectacle, all, as if struck by some omen of impending evils, were overcome with incredible fear and flocked together to appease the justice of an angry Deity with salutary works of penance. See Trithemius on the Monastery of Hirsau.

Prodigious appearance of Crosses in Spain.

In the year 1295, in the Kingdom of Castile, two false prophets who were Jews by religion arose, as attested by the book which is inscribed Fortalitium fidei (The Fortress of Faith). These men, having prophesied the final term of their redemption to the rest of the Jews, had assigned the final day of the fourth month of the aforementioned year; whence the Jews were carried away by the hope that, on the appointed day, they would receive the sign of redemption from GOD, which they had uniquely awaited for the interval of so many years and centuries. Wherefore, [having performed] their customary