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Passion, the, devotion of the Saint to, 21, 25, 46, 64; devotion

of B. Battista Varani to, 303, 305

Patience of the Saint, 240

Penances of the Saint, 232

Penna di Billi, della, Sister Margaret Marconi, 212

Persecution, endured by B. Battista Varani, 324

Pesucci, Don Francesco Maria, 176

Piacenza, the Saint taken to, 29; the Saint removed from, 36
Piazzini, Sister Mary Anne, 111

Pierleoni, Father Florido, 136

Pius VI., 121

Poor, the, devotion of the Saint to, 12

Poverty, the Saint's love of, 225

Praise, the Saint shrinks from, 257

Prayer, preparation for, 391

Presents made to the nuns, how dealt with by the Saint, 229
Profession of the Saint, 56; of the B. Battista Varani, 329
Prophecy, gift of, 275

Purgatory, the threefold, of the Saint, 179, 181, 184; pains
of, 369

Purity, virtue of, 236

Ranucci, Margaret, prophecy of the Saint concerning, 276
Raynaud, Theophilus, 140

"Religious," meaning of, 143

Ristori, Sister Teresa, mistress of novices, 47

Rodriguez, Father, works of, 73

Rose, S., of Lima, 14, 15, 16, 88, 103, 106

Rules of life given by our Lord to the Saint, 197

Saints seen in vision by S. Veronica, 274

Satan, disguised as the mistress of the novices, speaks to the
Saint, 49; strikes the Saint, 61; assumes the appearance
of the Saint, 126; assumes the likeness of the bishop, 184;
assumes the appearance of our Lord, 200; attempts to
frighten the Saint, 249; beats the Saint, 263; burns her
hand, 264

Sebastiani, Monsignor Giuseppe, bishop of Città di Castello,
42; admits the Saint to a monastery, 43; prophecy of, on
giving the religious habit to the Saint, 46

Segapeli, Father Vincent, 183, 203; prophecy of the Saint
concerning, 278

Seraphim, 343

Sin, effect of, 387

Slumber, spirit of, 392

Souls, delivered from purgatory by the prayers of the Saint,
221; pain of our Lord because of lost, 365

Spada, Cardinal, 152

Spanaciani, Sister Mary Constance, miraculous healing of,

saw the ring of espousals on the finger of the Saint, 108
Spanacieri, Signor Giulio, 224

Staphenia Soncinati, Blessed, 140

Stigmata, the, 139, 151; account of, 153; the Saint prayed
for the removal of, 258

Suffering, love of, 13; the Saint prays for, 61, 234; great
⚫ worth of, 63; the Saint's desire of, 115, 235; B. Battista
Varani prays for, 358, 365

Sweetness, spiritual, 356

Tassinari, Father, Confessor of the Saint, 68, 120, 221, 251,
253, 260; Confessor of the community for forty years, 78;
appointed to test the spirit of the Saint, 152; obtains her
intercession for a dying nun, 217

Teresa, S., 174, 235

Tests, physical, of the Saint's supernatural state, 97
Thorns, the crown of, 93

Ticciati, Father, 217

Tommasini, Fr. Antonio, S.J., appears to the Saint, 161

Tommasini, Sister Maria, 171

Tongue, the sins of, 400

Torrigiani, Cardinal, 176

Tosi, Sister Mary Celestine, 184

Trance, the Saint falls into a, 62

Trials, supernatural, of the Saint, 127; severity of her, during
her last illness, 181

Trinity, 387

Turks, the defeat of, foretold by the Saint, 221

Urbino, monastery of, the Saint enters the, 312, 324

Ursula, the Saint baptized as, 4

Vallemanni, Sister Mary Teresa, 111, 230

Varani, Camilla, 290; enters the convent of the Poor Clares
in Urbino, 291; removes to Camerino, 292; moved to write
an account of her inward life, 295; moved by a sermon on
Good Friday, 298; makes a vow, 300; devotion of, to the
Passion, 302; disliked the sight of religious, 303; resistance
of, to her vocation, 307; makes a general confession, 310;
conversion of, 314; sees our Lord in a vision, 321; suffers
persecution, 322; becomes a nun, 324; prays for suffering,
327; general confession of, 335; sees her own soul in the
hands of angels, 337; burning love of God of, 342; writes
reluctantly, 346; self-abasement of, 385; her love of her
enemies, 403; sent by the Pope to found a monastery in
Fermo, 405; death of, 409; incorruption of the tongue of,
411

Varani, Gentilis, 289

Varani, John Mary, recovers Camerino, 405

Varani, Julius Cæsar, 289; becomes lord of Camerino, 290
cruel death of, 405

Varani, Peter Gentilis, 325; widow of, a nun, 325

Varani, Nicholas, 323

Varani, Rudolph, 289; death of, 290

Vecchj, de', Father Giulio, 169; witness of the Saint's mystic

state, 170

Veil, a, of the Saint stained with tears of blood, 216
Veni Sponsa Christi, 105, 106

Veronica, S., birth and baptism of, 4; infancy of, 5; miracu-
lous speech of, 6; devotion of, to the Infant Jesus, 7, 273;
sees the Host shining, 10; her love of suffering, 13, 25;
youthful zeal of, 18; confirmation of, 20; trials of, in her
father's house, 31; return of, to Mercatello, 36; singular
illness of, 36; sees her father in Purgatory, 39; and obtains
his deliverance, 40; miraculous knowledge of Latin of, 43;
becomes a nun, 44; frankness and obedience of, 47; sees
our Lord in a vision, 55; the impression of the cross on the
heart of, 63; mistress of novices, 67; humiliations of, 71;
severe illness of, 75; elected abbess, 77, 250, 256; begs our
Lady to be the abbess, 268; carefulness of, in providing for
the needs of the house, 79; vision of the chalice, 86; at-
tacked by devils, 90, 249; vision of the crown of thorns,
93; endures the cruel tests of the surgeons, 97; her prepa-
ration for the spiritual espousals, 104; burns the Holy
Name into her flesh, 112; abstinence of, 116; miraculously
nourished, 120; has leave to live on bread and water, 122;
supernatural trials of, 127; her heart is wounded, 132
writes with her own blood, 134; wound in her hand, 138;
receives the stigmata, 140, 151; tests of her miraculous state,
166; the Saint undergoes the pains of the Passion, 168-171;
and the Dolours of our Lady, 172; commanded to make a
picture of the miraculous impressions on her heart, 175;
foretells her own death, 179; struck with apoplexy, 180;
sufferings of, from the treatment of the physicians, 182;
death of, 190; zeal of, for the propagation of the faith, 204;
wrote under obedience, 262, 272; miracles of, 264
Visions, not desired by the Saint, 58

Vitale, Father, appointed to test the spirit of the Saint, 152
Vocation, graces of, 107

World, the, hatred of, 318

Wounds, the Sacred, 141, 149

Xavier, S. Francis, appears to the Saint, 161

THE END.

R. WASHBOURNE, PRINTER, 18 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.

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