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The Life Of The Blessed Mary Ann Of Jesus, de Paredes y Flores: An American Virgin Called The Lily Of Quito

CONTENTS. Dedication 3 CHAPTER I. Resemblance between the sanctity of St. Rose of Lima and the Blessed Mary Ann of Jesus. Wonderful things that took place before and after the birth of Mary Ann. Extraordinary examples of abstinence and charity given in her childhood 12 CHAPTER II. Her first fervour in devotion and piety. She is miraculously preserved from many dangers which threatened her life. Most extraordinary artifices to afflict and torture her innocent body 27 CHAPTER III. The solitary and penitential life which she led in the villa and in the city. Attempts twice to fly from home to go and convert the infidels, and to live in solitude, and is prevented by Almighty God in wonderful ways 43 CHAPTER IV. She is not yet eight years of age and is admitted to holy communion, for which she prepares herself with freat fervour, and derives abundant fruit from it. he consecrates herself to God by the three simple vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Gives herself up entirely to the direction of her confessor, and suffers contradictions and opposition on account of her daily communion 58 CHAPTER V. Several times the Blessed Mary Ann is on the very point of entering a monastery to be

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