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The Life Of Saint Rose Of Lima

Saints And Servants Of God Series CONTENTS. I. Her country, her birth, her inclinations, and the vow of virginity which she made at the age of five years 21 II. Her obedience, the respect she had for her parents, and the assistance she rendered them 28 III. S Rose takes the habit of the Third Order of S. Dominic, in imitation of S. Catherine of Sienna, whom she had taken for her model 37 IV. Her humility, her incomparable purity of heart, and other virtues 44 V. Her fasts, her disciplines, and the other austerities with which she macerated her body 52 VI. Of the sharp-pointed crown which she wore on her head, and of the hardness of her bed 64 VII. Of her solitude, and the hermitage which she had built in her father's garden, that she might live quite separated from men 75 VIII. Jesus Christ espouses the Blessed Rose in the presence of the ever Blessed Virgin 84 IX. Of the close union with God to which she attained by means of mental prayer 91 X. She is tormented with interior pains to so frightful a degree that she is examined by some divines, who declare her state to be from God 98 XI. Of the familiar manner in which Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin, S. Catharine of Sienna and her

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