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159. With all the other faithful She proportionately
exhibited the same care; and although there were many
converts in Jerusalem and in Palestine, She remembered
them all in thir necessities and tribulations. And She
thought not only of the needs of their souls, but of those
of the body, and many She cured of most grave sick
nesses. Others, whom She knew were not to be cured
miraculously, She visited and assisted in person. Of the
poor She took a still greater care, with her own hand
administering to them food on their beds of sickness, and
seeing to their being kept clean, as if She were the ser
vant of all, infirm with the infirm. So great was the hu
mility, the charity and solicitude of the great Queen of
the world, that She refused no service or lowliest minis
try to the faithful, no matter how humble and insignifi
cant the condition of those applying for her assistance.
She filled each one with joy and consolation and lightened
all their labors. Those upon whom on account of their
absence She could not personally attend, She assisted
secretly through her holy angels or by her prayers and
petitions.
160. In an especial manner her maternal kindness ex
hibited itself
to those who were in the agony of death;
for she attended many of the dying and would not leave
had secured their eternal salvation. For
them, until they
those who went to purgatory She offered up most fervent
prayers and performed some works of penance, such as
prostrations in the form of a cross, genuflections and
other exercises, by which She satisfied for their faults.
Then She sent one of her angels in order to draw them
from purgatory and present them to her Son in heaven
as his own and as the fruits of his blood and Redemp
tion. This happiness the Queen of heaven procured to
many souls during her stay upon earth. And, as far as
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