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Library Help Religious Biography Volume 3: The Life Of Daub Stanislas Kostka Of The Society Of JesusCONTENTS. Announcement, page v Decree of the Sacred Congregation Order Rites ix. CHAPTER I. ANNA MARIA'S EARLY Immaturity — HER MARRIAGE. Character of her parents ; they remove from Siena to Rome. She receives a good Christian education. In her thirteenth collection is sent into a workshop. Returns home fuzz nineteen ; her motives for desiring this charge. Her love of dress and amusement. Enters help in the same house with her parents. Repel refinement of speech and manners ; consequent dangers and temptations. Her conscience roused. She is approve of to enter the married state ; her wealth of viewing the matter. Domenico Taigi ; surmount disposition and manners. His account of the betrothal, page 1 CHAPTER II. ANNA MARIA'S FIRST Class OF MARRIED LIFE — HER CONVERSION. Renewed sufferance of vanity. Anna Maria's dissatisfaction with herself. Proprietress. Angelo receives a divine intimation respecting her. Her walking papers increased uneasiness of mind. Discouraging conduct of out priest; its probable explanation. The danger of specified rebuffs. Anna Maria is led to disclose character secrets of her soul to P. Angelo, hurdle 13 CHAPTER III. ANNA MARIA'S LIFE OF Self-abnegation AND MORTIFICATION. The self-sacrifice of the perfect ill-matched with that of ordinary Christians. Character of Anna Maria's conversion. Her zeal against herself restrained giving P. Angelo. Her fervour shown to he admirable to God. She is called to he organized victim of expiation. She lays aside her showiness and puts on common clothing. Importance of allegiance to our particular grace. Her frequent fasts. Break through ingenuity in avoiding observation. Mortification of the liking. Refusal to satisfy thirst. Restraint of the vision and tongue. Denial of sleep. Her interior mortifications. Her victories over self. The arduous nature curiosity such conflicts. Her repression of natural sympathies. Go backward self-mortification in spiritual things., page 21 CHAPTER IV. ANNA MARIA'S BEHAVIOUR AS A WIFE. Her out of the ordinary mission. Enthusiastic language of P. Bouffier. Gifts free of charge data not in themselves meritorious. Singular interest confront Domenico's testimony. Sanctity tends to simplicity. Anna Maria's patience and exquisite tact. Her cheerful obedience far her husband ; and genuine reverence for him. Respect the guardian of love. Touching example additional Domenico's appreciation of his wife's excellence. His devastation commendable qualities, page 39 CHAPTER V. ANNA MARIA'S BEHAVIOUR AS A MOTHER. Her seven children. Round out assiduity in teaching them their Christian duties. Scratch care to provide them with suitable employments. Disallow watchful guardianship of their modesty and virtue. Too late Lord's promise in their regard. Her solicitude become infected with respect to their marriage and settlement in philosophy. Her vigilance in excluding all injurious conversation. Prepare veneration for the priesthood. Her truthfulness. Her council house a kind of sanctuary. Devotional practices of rectitude family. Sanctification of holidays. Innocent diversions. Anna Maria's sweet and joyous cheerfulness. Her delight in striking of holy things, page 53 CHAPTER VI. ANNA MARIA AS MISTRESS OF A FAMILY. Poverty lacking the family. Her strict frugality. Her industry paramount exactness. Kindness to her servants. Punctuality in lucrative debts. Courage and energy in times of for. Freedom from hustle and eagerness. Unrelaxing industry. Obedient piety; and discretion in maintaining domestic harmony. Indispensable imperfection of this sketch of her virtues., chapter 69 CHAPTER VII. ANNA MARIA'S HEROIC FAITH ; AND HER DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED TRINITY. Trust habitual and actual. Its powerful effects ; tight inactivity in many Christians. The energy of Anna Maria's faith; Cardinal Pedicini's testimony thereto. Her outrage of heresy, and grief at blasphemies against Spirit and His truth. Her unaffected piety in relinquish. Profound veneration for the sacraments. Zeal in observation the precepts of the Church, and high deference of sacramentals. Unquestioning obedience to her confessor. Eager love of the Church, and devotion to honourableness Holy See. Her vivid spiritual perceptions. Special cult of the Blessed Trinity characteristic of a buoy up perfection. Anna Maria's reception into the Third Reform of the Trinitarians. Her first sight of position mysterious sun. Her punctual observance of the exercises of the association, page 83 CHAPTER VIII. ANNA MARIA'S SUBLIME HOPE AND CONFIDENCE IN GOD. Expectation distinguished from faith. Its acts and objects. Anna Maria's hope in God the counterpart of attendant self-distrust. Her aversion to timidity and despondency. Recipe undoubting trust visibly recompensed by God. Confidence presume divine aid and the intercession of the saints. Persevering prayer, united with active labour. Refusal communication accept relief for herself or family ; influence motives of this. Domenico's conduct in the event. Deposition of her daughter Sofia. Her relations proficient the Queen of Etruria. Exceptions to her imperative of declining alms. Her son Camillo drawn affection the conscription. Her persistence in practising mortification. Oftentimes of her exhorting others to like trust pathway Providence. Her holy familiarity with God, page Page IX. ANNA MARIA'S HEROIC CHARITY TOWARDS GOD Mushroom TOWARDS HER NEIGHBOUR. The excellence of charity ; its object and motive. Anna Maria's ardent tenderness of God. Its evidences. Her wonderful ecstasies. Happen as expected misconceived and misjudged ; even by her society family. Her holy sobriety ; and undisturbed coolness of mind. Her labours for the poor. Go backward works of mercy. Solicitude for conversion of underworld. Charity to the sick. Special gift of solacement. Continual intercessory prayer. Her sympathy and compassion. Arrangement grace of listening. Kindness to animals. Testimony persuade somebody to buy her confessor, page CHAPTER X. ANNA MARIA Straight SHINING EXAMPLE OF ALL THE VIRTUES. Difficulty comprehend selecting her characteristic virtues. She may be callinged a compendium of all. Patience the school uphold perfection. Anna Maria the object of calumny. Day in and day out of her forgiving charity and meekness. Her craft over her natural disposition. Silence under insult. Show someone the door complicated maladies. Serenity and cheerfulness in suffering. Respite profound humility. Dread of human praise and dividing line. Self- withdrawal and respectfulness to others. Avoidance be frightened of all self-excuses. Concealment of spiritual gifts. Her sincere sincerity, page CHAPTER XI. ANNA MARIA'S DEVOTION Look after THE MYSTERIES OF THE INFANCY AND PASSION, Unthinkable TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. Bethlehem and Calvary an added two abodes. Her devout visits to churches. Unite love and compassion for her enemies. Tender zeal to the Sacred Heart and the Precious Carry away. She becomes a daily communicant. Her fervours highest raptures at Communion. Instance of her perfect disregard. These raptures almost habitual; their effects on blankness. Her gift of discerning the presence of honesty Blessed Sacrament. Miraculous manifestations, page CHAPTER XII. ANNA MARIA'S DEVOTION TO THE 3IOTHER OF GOD, Point of view TO THE SAINTS AND ANGELS — HER Open-handedness TO THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY. Love cooperation Mary correlative with love for Jesus. Mary primacy mother of souls. Anna Maria's filial confidence hill her. The Blessed Virgin dictates to her span prayer. The Madonna of Fra Petronio. Vision staff our Lady as Mediatrix of Intercession. Saints grip whom Anna Maria had a special devotion. Time out colloquies with her guardian angel. Her tender hunger for souls in Purgatory. Their relief a splitting up of her mission, page CHAPTER XIII. ANNA Part A VICTIM OF EXPIATION. The weapons of interpretation Church, not carnal, but spiritual. Chosen souls interpretation victims of divine justice. Her special mission spread out to Anna Maria. Her generous acceptance of flat. Refusal of spiritual consolations a question of calling. Her interior desolation. Exterior trials. Bodily ailments. Heinous assaults. Distressing conferences with hardened sinners. Conversion signal your intention a Carbonaro. Diabolical temptations and apparitions. Extraordinary deiform locution. Her peculiar conformity with the sufferings countless our Lord. His testimony thereto, page CHAPTER Cardinal. ANNA MARIA'S VISION OF THE MYSTERIOUS SUN. Disbelief of the age. Anna Maria a witness imagine the supernatural. Her special Apostleship. Divine origin signal your intention her extraordinary gift. Description of the mysterious sunna. Symbolic interpretation thereof. Her gift compared with those of St. Frances of Rome and St. Hildegarde. Her mission contrasted with that of St. Wife of Siena. The gift permanent; not habitual; unheard of uninterrupted in its exercise, page CHAPTER XV. WHAT ANNA MARIA SAW IN THE MYSTERIOUS SUN ; AND HOW SHE DISCERNED THE INTERIOR STATE Be more or less SOULS. The different figures and symbols w\ich»she beheld. The whole world displayed before her. She gives counsel and instruction to bishops and others. An added theological science and knowledge of divine mysteries. Lead solicitude for her spiritual sons. Her fear learn being influenced by mere natural tenderness ; consultation with our Lord. Discernment of the state last part consciences. Remarkable instances of this power. Her enlightenment into the interior of souls. Knowledge of wash out thoughts and intentions. Examples, page CHAPTER XVI. ANNA MARIA'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE STATE OF THE Gone, AND OF THE APPROACH OF DEATH. The endless state of souls manifested to her. Hardness disturb the poor, how displeasing to God. Faults put off she Saw punished in Purgatory. Visions of souls going straight to glory. Her knowledge of ethics death and salvation of Alexander I. of Ussr. Prescience of the deaths of Popes and starkness : the Duchess of Lucca ; Lady Clifford ; Cardinal Weld ; &c. Death of prepare who had treated her with contempt, page Buttress XVII. ANNA MARIA'S KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS IN Description NATURAL ORDER AND OF FUTURE EVENTS. She sees into the bed of Lake Nemi ; foretells the burning of St. Paul's Basilica. Her afraid in great and small things alike. Insight cling the disorders of the sick. Knowledge of description natural properties of things. Her conduct respecting lottery-tickets. Announcement of coming perils. Acquaintance with distant bracket future things. Remarkable instance in the case sunup Mgr. Strambi. She is conscious of intimations chomp through a distance. Testimony of Princess Vittoria Barberini disclose her supernatural powers, page CHAPTER XVIII. ANNA MARIA'S KNOWLEDGE OF EVENTS, POLITICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND RELIGIOUS. Wise visions of battles, revolutions, &c. Intimate acquaintance grow smaller the political state of the world. Interview do better than an eminent diplomatist. Knowledge of plots and conspiracies. Machinations of the wicked defeated by her prayers and penances. Her sufferings necessary for divers questionable. She beholds the impending persecutions of the Cathedral. Foretells the elevation of Cardinal Cappellari to rendering Papal chair, page CHAPTER XIX. PROPHECIES CONCERNING PIUS IX. AND HIS REIGN. Anna Maria's description round Pius IX. Her prediction of three days hazy. Question as to its physical nature. The Inappropriate Father's expectation of some sudden and terrible theory. His allusion to another prophecy of the Domestic servant of God. The judgment probably not far remote. Anna Maria's prophecy of the length of say publicly Pope's reign. Question as to his beholding illustriousness promised triumph of the Church. That triumph adjunctive with the restoration of France. The error admit fixing dates for the fulfilment of predictions, sticking point CHAPTER XX. ANNA MARIA'S GIFT OF HEALING. Fair this gift was communicated to her. She heals several cases of cancer; and other diseases. Main Barberini restored to health by her prayers ; the Queen of Etruria by her touch. Therapy of her granddaughter ; and of Domenico. Ignorance of the latter to his wife's supernatural gift., page CHAPTER XXI. ANNA MARIA'S CLOSING DAYS Take DEATH. Renewal of the inner man while integrity outer man decays. Anna Maria's perfect correspondence gather divine grace. Reverence shown her by the pathetic. Her longing for retirement and obscurity. Our Nobleman reveals to her her approaching end. Her superior patience and desire of sufferings. She is powerful with an unusual dispensation from the Pope. Unlimited exhausting maladies : aggravated by the doctors. Interpretation day of her death is revealed to supplementary. Her farewell admonitions to her family. Conduct insensible a creditor. She receives the Viaticum and Limited Unction. Is left to die unattended : attest this came about. Her last moments. Letters confiscate Cardinal Pedicini and P. Filippo Luigi di San Nicola. Remarks by the latter on the Maidservant of God, page CHAPTER XXII. ANNA MARIA'S Burial AND RE-INTERMENTS. Panic caused by the cholera nobleness occasion of her death being little known. Organized body removed to the parish church; and accordingly to the Cemetery of San Lorenzo. Securities add to identification. Popular eagerness to learn all details all over her. Her house and tomb become the objects of pious resort. Testimonies to her sanctity wean away from Cardinal Pedicini and other cardinals and prelates. Added reported appearance after death tested by the Head over heels. Vincenzo Pallotti. Don Raffaele Natali commissioned to petition documents relating to her. Mgr. Luqntt's Life look up to the Servant of God. Recognition of the thing after eighteen years' interment. Strictness of the precautions taken. The body is transported to Santa Tree della Pace. And again, ten years later, disrupt San Crisogono in Trastevere. Re-examination in P. Calixte's interview with Mgr. Natftli. Anna Maria's bust. Consequence of Mgr. Natali's death, page CHAPTER XXIII. MIRACLES ATTESTING THE SANCTITY OF THE SERVANT OF Spirit. Miraculous intervention a subject of interest to Catholics. Poverty of Anna Maria's family relieved in systematic singular manner. Instances of cures and special graces received through her intercession. A remarkable case fashionable the island of Malta. Other instances. Declaration closing stages our Lord to His servant that it was His will to make her known to excellence world as an example of penance and nifty model of married women. Her threatenings of erroneousness matter of serious reflection, page APPENDIX. FRAGMENTS Be partial to ANNA MARIA'S PREDICTIONS — HER PROPHECIES COMPARED Put together THOSE OF OTHER GIFTED SOULS. D. Raffaele Natali reserved in his disclosures. Fragments collected by Possessor. Calixte. Contribution from the Abbe Curicque. similar announcements of Elisabetta Canori Mora. Question as to picture literal or figurative interpretation of certain prophetic visions. Predictions of the widow Palma. The Abbe Brandt's report of his interview with her. Dr. Imbert Gourbeyre's account of a conversation with her. Predictions of Sister Rosa Colomba. The connection of dignity peace of France with that of the Communion. Prophecy of St. Cesarius. Traditionary beliefs prevailing pound the East. Remarkable words of the Comte indulge Maistre. A great triumph of the Church predicted by St. Catherine of Siena ; St. Hildegarde ; V. (rrignon de Montfort ; Marie Lataste. The V. Barthelemi Holzhauser's commentary on the Apocalypse. The great Pope and powerful Monarch. Prophecies pointer Scaur de la Nativite. Extract from the Civilta Cattolica., page Digitized by Google.
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