An Extract OUT OF A Pastoral LETTER OF THE Bishop of Angers IN FRANCE CONCERNING, A late Miracle done in the Parish called in French, Des Vlmes de St. Florent. near to the Town of Saumur, on the second day of June 1668. at what time those of the reformed Church (as they call themselves) held their Synod in the said Town of Saumur.  
PARISH, Printed in the Year MDCLXVIII   

An Extract out of a Pastoral Letter of the Bishop of Angers in France, concerning a late Miracle done in the Parish called in French Des Ulmes de St. Florent. near to the Town of Saumur, on the second day of June 1668. at what time those of the Reformed Church as they call themselves) held their Synod in the said Town of SAUMUR.  
The Bishop's words are as followeth.  
THe Curate of that Parish, having informed us, that on the Saturday within the Octave of the Blessed Sacrament, happened a miraculous Apparition in his Church; and that our Saviour JESUS CHRIST had visibly manifested himself in the holy Host: We presently Ordered the Curate of the Town of Saumur to go to the place, and take exact information of it; which being performed with great prudence and exactness; he having sent us the Depositions of the Curate, and of the vicar, and of several Parishioners, suitable to the first advice sent us, We Judged it fitting to take ourselves the account of the truth of this Miracle from the Mouths of the Witnesses. Wherefore on the 20th. of this Month we went thither with our Promoter; and having celebrated the Mass of the Holy Ghost, for obtaining light necessary for the clearing of so important a Verity; We Visited that same Host, which yet remained in the Remonstrance where the apparition was made: And after we had examined most exactly, and were certified that it could not be done by any Artifice, nor by reflection of light; nor by any ordinary means of nature; We heard separately the Curate and the vicar, and the Parishioners that were nearest to the Altar; as also two Inhabitants of the Town of Saumur, who had met there, and by their Depositions We understood, that on the 2d. day of this Month, which was Saturday within the Octave of the Blessed Sacrament, in time of the Salve, when the Curate sang these words, Verbn n Caro, Panem Verum, there appeared in the Remonstrance, in place of of the Host, the form of a Man, his hair falling on his Shoulders, and of a bright-brown colour, his face glittering, his hands crossed, the right hand over the left; his Body vested with a white garment, in form of an Albe. And that this Apparition lasted more than a quarter of an hour: as well upon the Tabernacle where the Sacrament was exposed, as upon the Altar: after the Curate had taken it down, to show it the people nearer at hand. After which, appeared a small cloud about it, which being soon dissipated, the Host appeared in its ordinary shape as it was before this Miracle happened.   

This is the Substance of what the Witnesses deposed, who all agreed in the same thing; so that there is reason to believe, That the Saviour of the World did visibly manifest himself in this Parish, which is one of the poorest of the Diocese.  
The Bishop after a short Pastoral Exhortation, ordained as followeth.  
THat the same Host in which the Apparition was made, shall be preciously kept within the same Church Des Vlmes de St. Florent. in a Window, firm and decently adorned, which shall be made for that purpose near the high Altar on the Gospel side; and that yearly on the Saturday within the Octave of the Blessed Sacrament, the Anniversary of this Apparition shall be solemnly celebrated in the said Church.  
Given under the Hand and Seal of the Bishop of Anger's, the 25th. of June, 1668.  
FINIS.