The Saints and Servants of God. SECOND SERIES. THE LIVES OF S. VERONICA GIULIANI, CAPUCHIN NUN: AND OF THE BLESSED BATTISTA VARANI, OF THE ORDER OF S. CLARE. "Gaude Maria Virgo, cunctas hæreses sola interemisti in Rihil obstat. T. F. KNOX, Congr. Orat. Emprimatur. Censor Deputatus. HENRICUS E., Archiep. Westmonast. ΤΟ THE NUNS OF ENGLAND, WHO SHIELD THEIR COUNTRY BY THEIR PRAYERS, AND BY THEIR MEEK AUSTERITIES MAKE REPARATION FOR ITS SINS; AND TO THE SISTERS OF MERCY, WHOSE CHARITY IS THEIR INCLOSURE, WHILE FOR THE LOVE OF THEIR HEAVENLY SPOUSE IN HIS POOR AND SUFFERING MEMBERS THEY DENY THEMSELVES THE PEACE AND PROTECTION OF THE CLOISTER. Daughters of Mary! in retreats obscure, Mingle in heaven and God's approval share With that uncloistered love, whose willing feet Are borne through jeering crowd and gazing street For you the holy past is now unfurled, S. WILFRID'S, Feast of our Lady of Redemption, MDCCCXLVII. you read. PREFACE. THE following Life of S. Veronica Giuliani was written by the Abate Filippo Maria Salvatori, and published in Rome in the year 1839. It was compiled from three lives of the Saint of earlier date, and from the processes of her canonization. The translation of the Spiritual Life of the Blessed Battista Varani has been made from the French version published at Clermont-Ferrand in 1840. It is founded upon the collection of her revelations, written in Italian by Father Matthew Pascucci, and rendered into Latin by the Bollandists, in the Acta Sanctorum for the 31st of May. THE ORATORY, London, May 31st, 1874. |