The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints: Compiled from Original Monuments, and Other Authentic Records; Illustrated with the Remarks of Judicious Modern Critics and Historians, Volume 10

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J. Duffy, 1845
 

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Página 58 - ... covered his feet, and with two they flew. And they cried one to another, and said : Holy, Holy, Holy, the Lord God of Hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.
Página 251 - They have reigned, but not by Me: they have been princes, and I knew not.
Página 349 - Scarce has she learn't to lisp the name Of martyr; yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath Which spent can buy so brave a death.
Página 349 - Of martyr ; yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath Which spent can buy so brave a death. She never undertook to know What Death with Love should have to do ; Nor has she e'er yet understood Why to show love, she should shed blood, Yet though she cannot tell you why, She can love, and she can die.
Página 60 - But one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching forth myself to those that are before, I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.
Página 349 - Live, Jesus, live, and let it be My life to die for love of Thee.
Página 42 - Gabelus, he caused me to have my wife; and he chased from her the evil spirit: he gave joy to her parents; myself he delivered from being devoured by the fish; thee also he hath made to see the light of heaven; and we are filled with all good things through him.
Página 400 - ... us what we are to believe, and what we are to do, that through his redemption we may escape eternal torments and attain to everlasting life.
Página 60 - Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect : but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Página 413 - ... and when I expressed my surprise, he said that it was very easy if one once had acquired the habit. One of his companions has assured me that he has gone sometimes eight days without food. . . . His poverty was extreme; and his mortification, even in his youth, was such that he told me he had passed three years in a house of his order without knowing any of the monks otherwise than by the sound of their voice, for he never raised his eyes, and only found his way about by following the others....

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