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CONTENTS.
S. VERONICA GIULIANI.
BOOK I.
CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HER LIFE IN THE WORLD, AND
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE FIRST FIFTEEN
YEARS OF HER RELIGIOUS CAREER, TOGETHER WITH A
BRIEF SKETCH OF THE OFFICES WHICH SHE FILLED IN THE
CONVENT.
CHAPTER
I. The birth of Veronica.-Tokens of her subsequent
sanctity and high privileges apparent even in
infancy
II. She begins at the age of three years to enjoy
familiar intercourse with Jesus and Mary
The first proofs of extraordinary virtue which
made her childhood remarkable
III.
IV.
Her father removes with Ursula and her sisters to
Piacenza, where at the age of ten she makes her
First Communion.-When twelve years old she
begins to practise mental prayer
V. The rich fruit which she gathered from the exer-
cise of meditation.-The first instances of oppo-
sition to her religious vocation which she had to
encounter at Piacenza
VI. Ursula is sent back to Mercatello, where she re-
sides in the house of her uncle.-New trials of
her vocation.-At length her father yields to
her influence and repents, ending his life with
certain marks of eternal salvation
-135
VII. Having received the desired consent of her father,
Ursula procures in an extraordinary way her
admission among the Capuchin nuns of Città di
Castello
41
VIII. Her clothing.-Deceits of the devil during her
noviciate
IX.
X.
PAGE
46
Her solemn profession.-Her virtue is strength-
ened, notwithstanding the assaults of the devil,
by special graces which she receives from God
during the early years of her religious life
The offices which she is called to fill in the con-
vent. The manner in which she discharged her
duties
56
64
- BOOK II.
CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GRACES
BY MEANS OF WHICH SHE WAS RAISED DURING THE LAST
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF HER LIFE TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE
OF SANCTITY, AND RENDERED THE LIVING IMAGE OF JESUS
CRUCIFIED.
I.
II.
Mysterious vision of a chalice, which prepared her
to reproduce in her own person the Passion of
our Redeemer
Veronica is made to participate in our Blessed
Saviour's crowning with thorns.-The severe
pains which this caused her, and her sufferings
from the remedies to which her superiors re-
quired her to submit
III. She is promoted to heavenly espousals.-The man-
ner in which our Lord prepared and conducted
them
·
85
IV. The gifts and favours which Jesus lavished on His
spouse during the two following days.-Her
correspondence to them
V.
In obedience to a divine command she begins to
fast rigorously on bread and water, and contin-
ues to do so for several years.-The opposition
which she had to encounter from her superiors,
as well as from herself, and from the powers of
darkness
VI. Further instances of Veronica's fidelity to her
divine Spouse. She receives from Him a wound
in the heart.-Four documents written by her
with her own blood
VII. Jesus produces in her a still greater resemblance
to Himself by imprinting upon her His sacred
stigmata
· VIII. The stigmata are repeated on various occasions,
and attested by new and satisfactory proofs
. 110
115
127
IX. Veronica participates in all the other Dolours
which constituted the divine Passion.-Wonder-
ful marks imprinted on her heart
X. The extraordinary graces and favours which ac-
companied her last illness and holy death
BOOK III.
163
- 178
OF HER HEROIC VIRTUES AND OF THE GIFTS WHICH SHE
POSSESSED IN COMMON WITH OTHER SAINTS.
I. Jesus Christ Himself becomes her visible Instruc-
tor in Christian and perfect life.—Her constant
desire of greater perfection
II. Veronica's heroic perfection in the theological
virtues
III. Her remarkable zeal and charity towards her
neighbour
IV. Her spirit of poverty and mortification, and her
angelic purity
V. Her patience and imperturbable gentleness
VI. Her wonderful humility
VII. Her miraculous obedience
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195
202
211
225
236
VIII. Her tender devotion to the Blessed Virgin, to her
guardian angel, and the other saints
- 267
IX. Her gifts of prophecy and miracles during life
NOTE
- 275
- 285
I. Her vow made in childhood relative to the Passion
of Jesus Christ.-Her progress in this devotion,
and the pious exercises which it suggested to
her
II. She resists the grace of a religious vocation for a
long time, but ends by following it with gene-
rosity
III. Spiritual favours which followed her entire con-
version
IV. What she had to suffer during her noviciate.-Her
return to Camerino, where she received great
favours from Heaven, and, among others, a visit
from S. Clare
V. Other divine favours accorded to Battista: they
are followed by new tribulations
VI. Battista addresses to her spiritual father particu-
lars supplementary to the history of her life
VII. First pain.-Sorrow for the sufferings of the lost
and the elect
326
337
349
Second pain. The sorrows of Christ for the suf-
ferings of His Mother, S. Mary Magdalen, and
His disciples
Third pain. The sorrows of Christ for the ingra-
titude of the Jewish people, and of all crea-
tures; His especial sorrow in the Garden
364
- 370
375
I. Her humility
II. Her charity towards her neighbour, manifested in
the warnings she gives her disciple
III. Her virtue is tried by the good and evil fortune of
her family. She establishes a monastery at
Fermo, and returns to Camerino, where she is
raised to the dignity of abbess
394
404
IV. Friendship of Battista with John of Fano.-Be-
ginning of the congregation of Capuchins.-
Death of Battista and veneration of her body - 406