God's grace have shaken off the yoke of usurpers while continuing
faithful and profitable subjects of those who have equitably
protected them."


Torrotti goes on to tell us about the Blessed shepherdess Panesia, a
virgin of the most exquisite beauty, and only fifteen years old, who
was martyred on the 1st of May 1383 on the mountain of S. Giovanni of
Quarona, with three wounds on her head and two on her throat,
inflicted by a wicked stepmother who had a devil, and whose behests
she had obeyed with such consummate sweetness that she had attained
perfection; on which, so invariably do extremes meet, she had to be
put to death and made a martyr; and if we want to know more about
her, we can find it in the work that has been so elegantly written
about her by the most illustrious Father Castiglione Sommasco.
Again, there was the famous miracle in 1333 of S. Maiolo in Val
Rassa, which is celebrated every year, and in virtue of which Pietro,
only child of Viscount Emiliano, one of the three brothers who fought
against the heretics, was saved after having been carried off by a
ravenous wolf into the woods of Val Sorba as far as the fountain
named after the rout which this same Count, when he afterwards grew
up, inflicted upon the enemies of the valley in 1377; wherefore he is
seen in an old picture of those times as a child in swaddling-clothes
in the mouth of a wolf, and he gave the name of Fassola di S. Maiolo
to his descendants. Nor, as in private duty bound, can the worthy
Canon forget -


"My own beloved chapel of St. Mary of the Snow, for whose honour and
glory I have done my utmost, at the entrance of the Val Mastallone;