Her goose-egg lump disappeared after one vow to St. Peregrine

FORLÌ, Romagna, October 8, 1608 AD — For nearly seventeen years, Magdalena de Savorellis did nothing about the growth under her left eye, because it didn’t hurt. On October 8, 1608 AD, she came to a sworn inquiry in the city of Forlì. Nobody had asked her to come. She swore to how she was cured.

The inquiry was about Saint Peregrine Laziosi. He was a friar of the Servants of Mary, and he died in Forlì in 1345 AD. In July, the head of the Servite friars in Forlì had asked the Church’s officials and the city’s leaders to open it. He wanted people to swear to how holy St. Peregrine had been, and to the cures that came through him. Their words would be written down. In October a notary began taking those sworn statements about the cures.

The notary warned every witness, Magdalena too, to tell only the plain truth. They were to add nothing and take nothing away.

Magdalena swore that about thirty years before, the growth under her eye was the size of a goose egg. In the end she decided to get rid of what she called “that monstrous appendage.” She meant the growth on her face. She sent for a man living in Forlì who was a physician and a surgeon. The surgeon looked at the growth and felt it. He told her it was a tumour, and a very hard one to cure. Magdalena told him to try anyway.

Seven months, then a vow

The surgeon treated her for seven months, and the growth didn’t get any better. Then some noble ladies of the town told her to turn to St. Peregrine. She took their advice and made a vow to him. The moment she made the vow, Magdalena swore, she felt the growth suddenly begin to heal. At last it was all gone.

Magdalena told the notary: “I was entirely free, with no disfigurement left, by the singular grace of God and Blessed Peregrine.”