Diatribe de Prodigiosis Crucibus

they vanished, fading away of their own accord. The outcome taught that the omen had been sent by divine providence; for, after the passage of two years, a great plague followed, which bereaved cities of their men and provinces of their inhabitants.

More worthy of admiration were those things which were seen in the Diocese of Liège in the year 1500, as is evident from the letters regarding this matter sent by the Bishop to the Emperor Maximilian; namely, that from the Easter festivities of that year, on individual days in various places, there appeared publicly and unexpectedly—whether in churches, or in squares, or in houses, or even in bedchambers—the sign of the Lord’s Cross, now perfect and simple, now even double, or with smaller crosses at the sides in the form of the shield of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and indeed black and reddish, such that in some cases it appeared as if true blood had been shed; and it appeared for the most part above the heads of women, and especially of girls, on the top of their shawls. A certain woman of 22 years, when she had noticed such a blood-stained cross upon her shawl, frightened and with reverence, [removed] that shawl to a place...

Appearance of Crosses in the Diocese of Liège

A wondrous outcome.