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The life of Blessed Alphonsus Rodriguez, lay-brother of the Society of Jesus

CONTENTS. BOOK I. Parentage and early years of Blessed Alphonsus 2 His wonderful devotion to the ever Blessed Virgin as a child, and her apparition to him when four years of age 2 He studies for two years 3 On his father's death he leaves his studies to assist his mother in business 4 He marries 4 He loses his business by reverses and his wife and a daughter by death 4 He retires from business, and spends three years in acts of piety and great austerities 4 Devotion to the Rosary, and wonderful favours accorded to him in its recital 5 Glorious apparition of our Blessed Lord with St Francis of Assisi and many Saints, and its effect upon him 6 Devotion to the Passion of our Divine Redeemer, and our saint's sensible participation in His pains 6 Death of his son and last child, and his wonderful heroism on the occasion 7 He determines to leave the world and embrace Religion 8 A wonderful vision which led him to the Society of Jesus 8 He applies at the age of thirty-eight to the Fathers of the Society at Segovia for admission, but is refused on account of his age and want of learning 9 He retires to Valencia, attends the Jesuit College there for two years, to study Latin and try his voc

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